Saeco (cycling team)

Saeco Macchine per Caffè
Team data
nationality	/
operator	AS Juvenes San Marino
First season	1989
Last season	2004
discipline	Street
Wheel manufacturer	Cannondale
Name story
Years	Surname
1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996–1997 1998–1999 2000 2001 2002 2003–2004	Verynet-FNT-Juvenes San Marino GIS Gelati-Juvenes San Marino GIS Gelati-Ballan Mercatone Uno-Zucchini-Medeghini Mercatone Uno-Medeghini-Zucchini Mercatone Uno-Medeghini Mercatone Uno-Saeco-Magniflex Saeco-AS Juvenes San Marino per Caffè Macchine Cannondale Saeco Macchine per Caffè-Valli & Valli Saeco Macchine per Caffè Saeco Macchine per Caffè-Longoni Sport Saeco Macchine per Caffè

Saeco was the Italian - San Marinese maltese pro - cycling team Marino's san-the sports club AS Juvenes San Marino .

Main sponsor of the team was from 1990, the ice maker Gis Gelati and from 1992 to 1995, the consumer market chain Mercatone Uno , the 1997 to 2003 under their name another team sponsored (→ Mercatone Uno (cycling team) ).

Since 1996, the team has taken part in all important cycling races under the name of the new main sponsor, the coffee machine manufacturer Saeco . During this time, cyclists such as Salvatore Commesso , Mario Cipollini , Damiano Cunego , Danilo di Luca , Gilberto Simoni and the German Jörg Ludewig drove for this racing team. One of the trademarks of the team were the bright red jerseys and the Cannondale bikes.

The greatest successes include two overall victories at the Giro d'Italia in 2004 (Damiano Cunego) and 2003 (Gilberto Simoni) as well as the sprint victories of Mario Cipollini. Characteristic for the sprint design around Cipollini was a so-called train in which the drivers stretched in front of the captain and drove him close to the destination at high speed, thus guaranteeing him an optimal starting position for the mass sprint and, because of the red team jerseys, as "treno rosso" (" red train ") was known.

In 2005 Saeco was merged with the Lampre team under the new name Lampre-Caffita .

Known drivers

Igor Astarloa (2002-2003) Michele Bartoli (1992–1995) Francesco Casagrande (1992–1997) Mirko Celestino (2001-2004) Mario Cipollini (1994-2001) Damiano Cunego (2002-2004) Salvatore Commesso (1998-2004) Danilo Di Luca (2002-2004) Laurent Dufaux (1999-2001) Martin Elmiger (2000) Cadel Evans (1999, 2001) Gian Matteo Fagnini (1994-1999)

Dario Frigo (1995-1999) Gerrit Glomser (2002-2004) Ivan Gotti (1997-1998) Massimiliano Lelli (1996-1997) Jörg Ludewig (2000-2004) Silvio Martinello (1992–1997) Eddy Mazzoleni (1995–1999, 2004) Mariano Piccoli (1992-1994) Leonardo Piepoli (1998) Michael Rich (1997-1998) Paolo Savoldelli (1998-2001) Gilberto Simoni (2002-2004) Adrie van der Poel (1993)

Greatest successes

classic

• Championship of Zurich
  • 2000 (Dufaux)
• Lombardy tour
  • 2004 (Cunego)
• Milan – Turin
  • 2001 (Celestino)
  • 2003 (Celestino)
• Walloon arrow
  • 2003 (Astarloa)
• World Championship
  • 2003 (Astarloa)

Round trips

• Tour de France
  • 1997 : 1st & 2nd stage (Cipollini)
  • 1998 : 6th & 7th stage (Cipollini)
  • 1999 : 4th - 7th Stage (Cipollini), 13th stage (Commesso)
  • 2000 : 18th stage (Commesso)
  • 2003 : 14th stage (Simoni)
• Giro d'Italia
  • 1993 : 2nd, 8th & 18th stage (Baffi)
  • 1997 : 14 stage (Gotti)
  • 2000 : 4th stage (Cipollini)
  • 2001 : 6th, 9th, 19th & 21st stage (Cipollini)
  • 2002 : 11th stage (Simoni)
  • 2003 : , , 12th, 14th & 19th stage (Simoni)
  • 2004 :, 2nd, 7th, 16th & 18th stage (Cunego); 3rd stage (Simoni)
• Vuelta a España
  • 1992 : 1st stage ( Enrico Zaina )
  • 2002 : 2nd stage (Di Luca)
• Tour de Suisse
  • 2000: 9th stage ( Francesco Secchiari )
• Tour of Catalonia
  • 1994: 2nd & 3rd stage ( Simone Biasci ), 6th stage ( Massimo Donati )
  • 1995: 2nd, 3rd & 5th stage (Cipollini)
  • 1996: 2nd & 5th stage (Cipollini)
  • 1998: 1st - 4th Stage (Cipollini)
  • 1999: 1st & 2nd stage (Cipollini)
• Germany tour
  • 2003 : 4th stage ( Ivan Quaranta )
• Tour de Romandie
  • 1996: 3rd, 5th (part 1) & 6th stage (Cipollini)
  • 1997: 2nd, 3rd & 5th (part 1) stage (Cipollini)
  • 1999: 5th stage (Cipollini)
  • 2000 :, Prologue (Savoldelli); 1st & 5th stage (Cipollini); 2nd stage (Dufaux)
  • 2001: Prologue, 2nd stage (Savoldelli); 5th stage (Cipollini)
• Tirreno-Adriatico
  • 1994: 1st stage (Baffi)
  • 1996: (Casagrande)
  • 1999: 3rd stage (Cipollini)
  • 2001: 1st stage ( Biagio Conte )
  • 2002: 3rd & 5th stage (Di Luca)
  • 2003: 6th stage (Di Luca)
• Paris – Nice
  • 1994: 1st stage, 6th stage (Cipollini)
• Tour de Romandie
  • 1995: 2nd & 5th stage (Cipollini)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Mercatone Uno website (Italian) ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Storia di Mario Cipollini on museociclismo.it accessed on September 7, 2013
3. ↑ radsport-news.com from November 1st, 2004: Lampre and Saeco merge to Lampre-Caffita

Web links

• The team 1989 , 1990 , 1991 , 1992 , 1993 , 1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 1998 , 1999 , 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2003 and 2004 in the database of Radsportseiten.net