🗣️ RACE RECAP 📰 "I’m happy to finish off my season with a podium. I tried to go solo quite a few times." Filippo Zana reacts to a super ride to 3rd at the #VenetoClassic🇮🇹 Report and quotes 🔊👉 bit.ly/VenetoClassic 📸 @SprintCycling
"It was quite impossible to overcome them" - Filippo Zana thwarted by the numbers game at the Veneto Classic
CyclingSunday, 15 October 2023 at 23:30
Filippo Zana was forced to settle for third in his final race of 2023. The former Italian national champion looked well positioned but in the finale was outdone by a UAE Team Emirates double act.
“I’m happy to finish off my season with a podium," said Zana to the official website of Team Jayco AlUla in a post-race interview. The 24-year-old had looked good when he attacked on the gravelly climb at Diesel Farm and crested solo. On the descent though, he was joined by a pair of UAE Team Emirates riders in Davide Formolo and Marc Hirschi.
"I tried to go solo quite a few times, but the UAE riders were able to work as a double, and it was quite impossible to overcome them," Zana concluded his recap. "I knew the roads very well and gave it everything I had."
Nevertheless, it has been another impressive season for the Italian who became a Grand Tour stage winner earlier this year at the Giro d'Italia and took overall victory at the Tour of Slovenia. "Now I’ll look forward to a break, and to coming back for the new season refreshed and ready to go again!”
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