2010 Schedule
Season 2010 was a turning point as Marco Borciani and Mirco Guandalini were able enough to see an opportunity in what was a profound crisis in professional sports . They both wanted to continue battling for the top in an ever more hard-fought championship, where 7 manufacturers were competing and with growing audience behind.
Borciani decided to join forces with Mirco Guandalini, whose rival team he had battled against on the national tracks for the category title and in the world championship for the best privateer honour.
The two managers developped a project bringing each own's different abilities . The project was built around Jakub Smrz, who has enormous potential. Born in 1983, the Czech , who made his debut in 250 World MotoGp in 2007 , switched to World Superbikes, where he proved his skills from the beginning, and made him now one of the top riders of his category. He finished tenth in the standings last year, taking a podium result at Assen, the pole position and the fastest lap at Misano. Smrz will benefit from a top class
technical team in the newly born PATA B&G Racing and will ride two 2010 Ducati 1198 , one of the most competitive bikes of the category.
The team will also line up the young Ravenna-born Lorenzo Baroni in World Superstock 1000, who will try to establish himself as one of the top riders of the category in the seat of a Ducati 1198.
Marco Borciani
Marco Borciani made his debut as manager of a racing team in 2006. He was not only a rider anymore, but a team manager as well. And he was equally successful at both. As a rider he won the national Superbike title twice, in 2006 and 2007. As a team manager , he went really close to a podium result with his team, resurrecting Ruben Xaus, who was coming after two bad MotoGP seasons . The next year, the team made a step forward as the first prestigious results arrived and the media coverage was bigger than ever. Ruben Xaus took a podium at Assen and won at Valencia , finishing the championship in sixth place. Borciani won the national title again. All these results made the team one of the most competitive in Superbike. The results obtained with a work method and ability to create a relaxed environment, helped the team sign Max Biaggi, who after making his Superbike debut in 2007, joined Ruben Xaus to make a dream team who would make the fans go mad. Alex Polita was also acquired to race in Superstock. The team had a great season as the two WSBK riders went nine times on the podium, one of which was a win. Polita ended the season in third place after failing to win the title in the last round.
The team was now one of the top squads , Biaggi and Xaus got offers from rival teams and eventually switched to Aprilia and BMW respectively.
Borciani had to change the team, and started the next season lined up with British Superbike champion Shane Byrne and Alex Polita. Unfortunately, the economic crisis forced the team to keep only Byrne , who finished the championship in eighth place, taking a podium at Misano.
It was four years in the young history of Marco Borciani's team, who was without any shadow of a doubt the best privateer in Superbike, where the entire crew demonstrated their competence. This brought a series of great results:
2006 WSBK Ruben Xaus 14th CIV Marco Borciani WINNER
2007 WSBK Ruben Xaus 6th ( 1 WIN 1 1 THIRD PLACE) CIV Marco Borciani WINNER
2008 Max Biaggi 7th ( 3 second places 4 third places) Ruben Xaus 10th ( 1 WIN 1 THIRD PLACE) CIV Marco Borciani WINNER
2009 Shane Byrne 8th ( 1 second place)
A total of : wsbk 2 wins 4 second places 6 third places
Civ 2 Italian titles
Mirco Guandalini
Mirco Guandalini, former professional football player and motorcycling enthusiast , got interested in the world of racing in 2003.
His adventure started in 2004 in the Italian Superbike Speed Championship with Paolo Blora and took part as a Wild Card in the Italian rounds of World Superbikes starting from his first season . The brilliant results obtained persuaded the team owner to invest more and his rider Norino Brignola won the Italian Superbike Championship.
Luca Conforti also made his debut in World Superbikes the same season.
The next two seasons saw the team at the top of the national championship, finishing fourth in 2006 and second in 2007 , still with Norino Brignola in the seat of the bike.
The team made their full-time debut in World Superbikes in 2008.
A young and promising rider from the Czech Republic was acquired , Jakub Smrz, who proved to have great potential.
The team had a 2009 season during which Guandalini was joined by Pierfrancesco Chili, as sports manager. Smrz was joined by Brendan Roberts, who sustained an early injury.
Smrz powered to the pole position at Misano and scored the team's first podium in WSBK, taking third place at Assen and finished the season in tenth position in the riders standings.
In the national championship, team Guandalini won the title again after having done the same in 2005. Norino Brignola became Italian Superbike champion yet again as the team proved to be one of the most important ones both nationally and internationally.
2004 wild card WSBK rider Paolo Blora
2005 CIV Norino Brignola WINNER wild card WSBK Luca Conforti
2006 CIV Norino Brignola 4th Luca Conforti 8th
2007 CIV Norino Brignola 2nd
2008 WSBK Jakub Smrz 13th
2009 WSBK Jakub Smrz 10th CIV Norino Brignola WINNER
A total of : WSBK 1 third place
Civ 2 Italian titles
