18th start at the Giro d'Italia! Domenico Pozzovivo matches Giro record as he leads hopeful Bardiani team

VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè are one of the many teams to reveal their lineup for the Giro d'Italia at the start of this week and they are led by a veteran and a novice. Domenico Pozzovivo looks to leave his mark on the race's history.

And the Italian will do so. After racing the Giro for the first time in 2005, the 41-year old will start the race for the 18th time. This matches the record set by Wladimiro Paniza who started the same amount of times from 1967 to 1985. Pozzovivo only managed to find a contract with the Italian team in late February - something which has now happened for three seasons in a row.

The veteran will not start the race without ambitions however, having finished on the Top10 of the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali and Giro d'Abruzzo. He will seek to add a second Giro win to his palmarès, 12 years after his triumph in Lago Laceno. Next to him in the lead is a rider with less than half his age; Giulio Pellizzari won a stage and finished second at last year's Tour de l'Avenir and is the team's big hope to success in this race. He finished eighth in the recent Tour of the Alps.

The team will back up Enrico Zanoncello for the sprints, the 26-year old sprinter recently won and led in the Giro d'Abruzzo. The rest of the team will seek to be in breakaways and put the team on the big screen: Manuele Tarozzi, Luca Covili, Filippo Fiorelli, Martin Marcellusi and Alessandro Tonelli.

VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè for Giro d'Italia:

Manuele Tarozzi
Luca Covili
Filippo Fiorelli
Martin Marecellusi
Giulio Pellizzari
Domenico Pozzovivo
Alessandro Tonelli
Enrico Zanoncello