08 Lug Victory for Jacopo Billi in the Assietta Legend
Three months after his last victory, Jacopo Billi has regained the levels he deserves and returned to success by winning the Assietta Legend for the first time in his career.
How great to be back to winning ways! It’s been exactly three months since Jacopo Billi won his last race, it was the Savigno Race and the Metallurgica Veneta MTB Professional Team rider, after what he had done, thought he was going to continue with some great results, but instead he ended up on a roller coaster due to some physical problems.
A splendid race for the rider from Canavese who took the lead in the first kilometers of the Assietta Legend and pushed from start to finish, never accusing a drop, so came a very important victory that certified the return of Billi on the top step of the podium and the change of direction to the levels seen in the first months of the season, motivating him to relaunch himself in the next appointments.
After 20 km of the race in the company of Alessandro Saravalle, on the main climb at the 2,465 meters of the Colle dell’Assietta “Jaco” took the leadership of the race and made the gap becoming uncatchable for everyone imposing himself with a wide margin at the end of the 63 km of the Sestriere marathon.
