Turin-Biella changes again. The UCAB race, again the Tour of the Province for many and consistent needs of time and time, moves from October 2020 to Sunday 18 July. Different thoughts and arguments of the Rossoneri management that led to the changes of date and above all of the path. “We will not leave Turin – says the president of the association Filippo Borrione – for economic and organizational problems of no small importance”. At Ucab they have other pillars on which to support the race and on those the Ukrainian ingenuity has chosen a mixture of the new and the old. “We will return to cover the streets of Valdilana – continues Borrione – and we will make a mix of the city circuits of recent years”. The start is new and instead of the Reggia di Venaria, it will be hosted by the spaces of the Sports Academy thanks to the interest of Denis Lunghi’s family who decided to support the race for Elite and Under 23 and which will see all the preliminary starting operations in the areas of the sports center until the moment when the tricolor flag is lowered, which will allow the runners to reach kilometer zero in corso Europa.
«I really like some choices – explains Borrione – and they arise from the need to harmonize the safety of runners, costs and the decrease in volunteers available at intersections. I’m sorry not to do more from Cossato to Biella on the provincial road, but all the roundabouts and the added posts made us prefer something else ». And that other are the soaring altimeters of Coggiola, Portula, Trivero first and then those of Mosso Santa Maria, Romanina and Pettinengo. “It will be a tough race – predicts the UCAB president – even for the 5 laps of the city circuit that will mark the end of the race”. You will go up to Biella high on the pebbles from the Costa del Piazzo to then take the “Nera” and from there go up towards the further stretch of Cantone Bonino. Then the swoop towards Biella and the sharp city curves towards the finish line in Piazza Vittorio Veneto. Whether it will be to the satisfaction of the riders will be known at the end of the race but in the meantime their sporting directors have already said yes. Otherwise it would not be explained how at three weeks of the event there are 176 members with the Russian national team and Swiss, Monegasque, French teams in addition to the Italians who dream of becoming an Ulissi or a De Marchi, to name two of the famous winners.