Carrera (cycling team)

Carrera

The 1987 Carrera Jeans–Vagabond jersey
Team information
UCI code	CAR
Registered	Italy
Founded	1984 (1984)
Disbanded	1996
Discipline(s)	Road
Status	Retired
Key personnel
General manager	Davide Boifava
Team name history
1979–1983 1984–1985 1986–1990 1991 1992 1993–1996	Inoxpran Carrera–Inoxpran Carrera Jeans–Vagabond Carrera Jeans–Tassoni Carrera Jeans–Vagabond Carrera Jeans–Tassoni

Carrera was an Italian-based road bicycle racing team active from 1984 to 1996, named after sponsoring Italian jeans manufacturer Carrera. The team was successful in the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France with three overall wins and several wins in the Points classification and Mountain Classifications.

History

Inoxpran

The Inoxpran cycling team began in 1979.^[1] The Inoxpran team achieved success with Italian Giovanni Battaglin who won in the period of a month and a half in 1981 two Grand Tours in with the 1981 Giro d'Italia and the 1981 Vuelta a España. Battaglin was the second rider in history to achieve this Giro-Vuelta double after Eddy Merckx who achieved the double in 1973. Roberto Visentini had been the Inoxpran team leader in 1983 when he finished second overall in the 1983 Giro d'Italia.

Carrera

Carrera Jeans became the title sponsor in 1984 and Visentini finally won the Giro d'Italia in 1986. At the end of 1985 the team had signed

In 1989, Carrera manager Davide Boifava together with Luciano Bracchi, Francesco Boifava, Tacchella's family and Valentino Compagnoni founded Carrera Podium, a manufacturer of cycles.[3] From 1990 on, the team rode on these Carrera bikes.^[4]

During this time,

The team doctor of the Carrera cycling team, Dr. Giovanni Grazzi, worked with Professor Francesco Conconi at the University of Ferrara in 1993.^[8] It was reported in the Rome-based newspaper, La Republica, in January 2000 that Conconi was involved with administering EPO to riders on the Carrera team.^[9] In March 2000 the Italian Judge Franca Oliva published a report detailing the conclusions of an investigation into a number of sports doctors including Professor Conconi.^[10] This official judicial investigation concluded that the riders of the Carrera team were administered EPO in 1993.^[11] The riders included Stephen Roche, Claudio Chiappucci,^[12] Guido Bontempi, Rolf Sørensen, Mario Chiesa, Massimo Ghirotto and Fabio Roscioli.^[8]

Files seized as part of the judicial investigation allegedly detail a number of aliases for former Tour de France, Giro d'Italia winner and World Champion Stephen Roche including Rocchi, Rossi, Rocca, Roncati, Righi and Rossini.^[13] In 1997, Claudio Chiappucci told prosecutor Vincenzo Scolastico that he had been using EPO since 1993, but later he recalled that statement.^[14]

Major wins

Sources[15]^[16]

Grand Tours by highest finishing position
Race	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
Vuelta a España	–	–	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	15	58	–	47	15	–	–	87	–
Giro d'Italia	–	3	1	16	2	18	23	1	1	3	6	12	2	2	3	2	4	2
Tour de France	6	–	–	58	–	22	23	3	1	22	40	2	3	2	6	3	11	5
Major week-long stage races by highest finishing position
Race	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
Paris–Nice	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	4	34	27	7	–	–	–	–	–	–
Tirreno–Adriatico	3	14	5	–	1	3	–	7	–	1	8	16	11	8	16	7	9	12
Volta a Catalunya	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	45	33	–	5	1	4	–
Tour of the Basque Country	1	19	–	–	2	–	–	–	12	–	–	13	1	6	2	3	33	12
/ Tour de Romandie	–	–	–	–	7	–	8	8	1	3	5	16	–	–	2	11	5	7
Critérium du Dauphiné	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	30	37	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Tour de Suisse	9	–	–	–	12	–	5	4	14	–	12	–	44	12	9	2	5	1
Tour de Pologne	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	6
Ronde van Nederland	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Monument races by highest finishing position
Race	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
Milan–San Remo	9	18	37	55	2	29	28	15	1	8	17	16	1	35	5	37	8	47
Tour of Flanders	–	–	–	–	–	–	10	7	38	31	53	16	13	18	15	57	4	13
Paris–Roubaix	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	18	9	42	28	42	14	54	–	–	–	21
Liège–Bastogne–Liège	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	23	2	–	21	51	35	14	1	4	7	13
Giro di Lombardia	3	2	3	36	10	8	19	17	6	9	15	19	36	2	4	2	6	21
Classics by highest finishing position
Classic	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
Omloop Het Volk	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	NH	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
E3 Harelbeke	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	–	–	–	23	35	–	12	–
Gent–Wevelgem	–	–	–	–	–	1	15	1	18	33	22	23	1	35	33	47	16	12
Amstel Gold Race	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	23	28	11	20	8	15	7	3	10
La Flèche Wallonne	–	–	21	–	–	–	–	14	4	–	8	56	3	12	3	7	7	6
Clásica de San Sebastián	NH		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	22	12	11	2	1	4	18	3
Paris–Tours	–	–	–	–	–	–	20	17	5	14	9	31	11	31	16	19	–	39

Notes

References

External links

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