The next month, Giro d'Italia organisers will present the route of the 2016 edition. Race director Mauro Vegni told Cyclingnews that next year's race will include three individual time trials, but no team time trial. According to the Italian, there will be a mountain time trial of around 20 kilometers.

"You can expect to see a few changes, you can anticipate the Giro not having a team time trial for instance," Vegni told Cyclingnews. "We will have three time trials, the first of which is in Holland will be around 11km."

"The second will be the Chianti time trial, which you’ve just seen and which will be spectacular, and the third time trial will be an uphill mountain time trial of around 20 kilometres."

The race will comprise around 70 kilometres of individual time trialing. "The 2015 edition gave us an indication of how the Giro will be developed in the coming years. We’ve become more careful with regards to rider transfers, for example, so that we can help with the recovery time for riders. There’s no willingness on our parts to make the race extreme," he said.

Like the last years, the official route of the 2016 Giro d’Italia will be presented on Monday October 5, the day after the Il Lombardia.