Giro del Piemonte
With the team's merger with Team RadioShack already announced, the traditional season-closing weekend in Italy at the Giro del Piemonte and the Giro di Lombardia effectively figured to comprise the team's final races under this guise. At the Giro del Piemonte, Bennati made each of the day's selections, first a 31-rider group that formed at the to go mark and then a 14-rider break in the race's final kilometer. He could manage only seventh in the uphill final sprint, however.