As a pure Brescian proffesional cyclist, Bruno Leali demonstrated his athletic and physical qualities since 1979. From the beginning of his career he was constant figure in the Inoxpran and Carrera teams and a good friend of the team manager Davide Boifava. In 1984 he won the Merano stage in the Giro D’Italia and the Salò stage in the Ruota D’oro. His year of glory was 1987, where he won the Agostoni Cup, which in that year was a valid for the Italian Championship. 7 times blue jersey in the world cup on road and 2 on track, he was a racer with great character, often offering service to the team, despite managing to win important personal victories. He retired from world races in 1994.

Born in Uboldo in the province of Varese in 1963, he has been a generous and eclectic champion, known for attacking in a spectacular way. Amongst the pros with Carrera, he stopped racing in 1999. He won 3 great titles on mountain stages of the Giro, 2 in the Tour De France of which 8 days bearing the yellow jersey, 8 times in the blue jersey at the world championships on road, and 4 in blue in cyclocross. In the Tour de France in 1990, he became popular as he wore the yellow jersey in 8 stages, from the 13th up to the penultimate obtaining second place overall, an in 1991 he won the Milano-Sanremo. In his career he has had to come to terms with competing against Gianni Bugno and the Spaniard Miguel Indurain. Legendary was his challenging victory in the Tour de France in 1992: he remained in solitary breakaway for 7 hours and 45 minutes for 200 kilometres, breaking from Bugno and Indurain, finishing at the shoulders of the Spaniard in the overall ranking. He obtained a well earned 2nd place in 1990 and a 3rd in 1991.

Born in 1961, at 21 years of age he débuted in professional cycling. In 1986 he turned to Davide Boifava’s Carrera team, racing in the same team as Chiappucci, Visentini and Roche. Alongside them he won 2 Giro D’Italia tours and 1 Tour de France. In 1987 he won the first stage of the Gp Sanson and a team time-trial both at the Giro and Tour. In 1991 he obtained incredible results: 7 victories of which one a stage at the Giro, the Agostoni Cup and the Giro dell’Emilia. Among the 1500 competitions which he took part in, we can generally recall 12 Giro D’Italia tours, 9 Tour de France and 9 participations at world cups. In his most prestigious results, there is a 7th place achieved by the argued world cup results in Belgium in 1988, Giro Dell’Emilia conquered in 1990, in 1991 and 1995, the Milan-Turin in 1991, 2 stages at the Giro (1991 the first and 1993 the second), the Climber Trophy in 1991, a 9th place at the worlds in Stuttgart in 1991 and the Giro del Mediterraneo in 1994. At the age of 35 in 1996 he was victim of an accident that forced him to retire from the world racing. To the present day he counts 27 victories.

Since 1996 he is the commentator for the RAI reported cycle races; he is an impassioned, and expert, commentator with enthusiasm and competence in regards of the great events of Italian and world cycling.

An originally Swiss and “complete” racer for many achievements, often of great service to his team, Maechler entered the world of professional cycling in 1982, racing 6 years for Carrera from 1985 to 1991. In 1987 at the Milano-Sanremo he obtained a hard fought 1st place; he launched himself towards Sanremo in a reckless descent, managing to break 6 seconds of advantage from the Belgian Vandearden. Thanks to this he became the first swiss to win the legendary Milano-Sanremo. Machler achieved this great second result after the first being at the Puy de Dome at the Tour De France the year before. He retired from his cycling career in 1994.

Perini spent most of his career alongside Davide Boifava, from 1981 up till 1992, initially in the Inoxpran, then in the Carrera team. As a supporting rider of Chiappucci he always showed a generous temperament. He contributed to obtaining an important success for the Italian National team in the on road world cup victory with Gianni Bugno at Benidorm in Spain;  an event which gave him the nickname of “The Duke Of Benidorm”. He arrived 8th in the overall rankings of the Tour De France in 1992 and won the 3rd stage of the Giro di Puglia in 1993, retiring from the world of racing in 1995.

Strong willed racer, born in Gussago (Brescia), he served Carrera from 1981 to 1993.  As an amateur he was a very powerful sprinter, alternating from road to track, managing the world record of the standing kilometre and of the 4 kilometre team pursuit at the Moscow Olympic Games. He became a professional cyclist in 1981 with Inoxpran, and soon enough he made a name for himself in finishing line sprints winning two stages at the Vuelta and one at the Giro D’Italia, where he managed to bear the pink jersey for one day. On road he continued to win stages in the great tours and in the Giro D’Italia; in the Tour De France in 1986 he conquered all 3 of the stages on Italian roads. Thanks to his qualities capable of standing short, but tough hill climbs, thiese allowed him to win important classical races such as the Ganb-Welgem (in 1984 and in 1986) and the Paris-Brussels in 1986. He was awarded 3 times for winning the Giro del Friuli, twice for the Tre Valli Varesine, once for the Bernocchi Cup, a second place at the Milano- Sanremo race in 1983, and a 3rd in 1987. With having earned over 80 victories in his active career, in 1995 he retired from cycling.

Originating from Varese, Ivan basso accomplished many successes since he was very young: a 2nd place in the world junior races at San Marino in 1995 and a world title in the Under 23s in 1998, at Valkenburg in Holland. He wore the rainbow jersey up till May ’99, débuting at the Giro D’Italia with Davide Boifava’s, Riso Scotti Vynavil team. He had excellent characteristics as a hill climber, though he was not considered one, proving his qualities at Mont Faron in 2001, where he won a stage in the Giro del Mediterraneo.