The drama of the 2015 edition of the GP Città di Peccioli-Coppa Sabatini was all in the final part of the race and Lampre-Merida succeeded in being among the protagonists who battled for victory.

The riders did the early kilometers at a slow pace, allowing 3 attackers (Zilioli, Van Overberghe and Cam) to escape from the bunch and to get to a maximum advantage of 7 minutes, before the peloton began the chase which was completed with 25km to go.

The speed became higher and consequently the bunch was reduced to no more than 70 riders. Sports director Daniele Righi could still rely on Conti, Bono, Ferrari, Koshevoy, Polanc and Niemiec.

In the exciting final kilometers, Conti tried to make the winning action: Bono and Ferrari launched him with 300 meters to go and the young climber could obtain some meters of advantage on the group before Bakelants joined him, followed by the rest of the chasers for a restricted sprint which was won by Prades ahead of Lammertink and Finetto.

Conti obtained the 10th place.

"We can be happy with the good performance of the team even if we could not get to the result that our qualities deserved,” sports director Righi explained. “We raced in a good way in the final part of the race, Conti could exploit the perfect support he recieved from two experienced riders like Bono and Ferrari and he had a good timing in his attack with 300 meters to go.

“Unfortunately, the reaction came from a top rider like Bakelants, whio also assisted the rest of the chasers. Without this reaction, Conti could have achieved a top result".