The tenth seasonal victory of Team Hopplà is signed by the Valdarno native and Tuscan elite champion Matteo Regnanti, who won the 47th G.P. Città di Empoli. Mission accomplished because the team racing on home roads had set its sights on this race, which the heat more than the route made selective and only 30 riders completed it out of 156 starters. It was right that Regnanti, guided by Stefano Roncalli, won for Hopplà, something he had not yet done, although he had been a protagonist from the beginning of the season with 9 top-five finishes, including two second places and the Tuscan title.

Two distinct phases of the race. The breakaway started after 10 km by Ansaloni, Pezzo Rosola, Lucca, and Rigatti, who had a maximum advantage of 2 minutes and ended on the climb of Castra 30 km from the finish when the quartet broke up while a dozen pursuers, including Regnanti, were coming back. Along the descent, 12 at the front and for the others, the race was over, even though the gap was not clear.

In Marcignana, 5 km from the finish, the Tuscan Bertolli attacked and gained 15" on the other 11, from whom only Regnanti found the strength to chase and catch Bertolli, easily beating the athlete racing in the Sicilian group in the sprint. The third place in the pursuers' sprint went to Manenti (Team Hopplà), but the jury relegated the Bergamo rider to ninth place for an unsportsmanlike conduct towards Bortoluzzi. Among those present were the Mayor of Empoli Alessio Mantellassi and Sports Councilor Laura Mannucci, who awarded the winner together with Roberto and Cristina Maltinti, happy for the race's success (meeting at the Coop Center) and Innocenti's good performance, who finished tenth.

FINAL STANDINGS

1) Matteo Regnanti (Team Hopplà) Km 146, average 41.435; 2) Samuel Bertolli (Team Bike Sicilia Multicar) at 3"; 3) Giovanni Bortoluzzi (General Store Essegibì F.lli Curia) at 22"; 4) Manuele Oioli (MBHBank Ballan CSB Colpak); 5) Andrea De Totto (Gragnano Sporting Club); 6) Lucca; 7) Ansaloni; 8) De Laurentis; 9) Manenti; 10) Innocenti at 32".