GB-MG Maglifico

MG Maglificio

Paolo Bettini and Michele Bartoli at the 1997 Paris–Tours
Registered	Italy
Founded	1992 (1992)
Disbanded	1998
Discipline	Road
1992-1994 1995-1997 1998	GB-MG Maglificio MG Maglificio-Technogym Riso Scotti-MG Maglificio

MG Maglificio was an Italian professional road cycling team in the 1990s. The team started racing in 1992, under the management of Belgians Roger de Vlaeminck and Patrick Lefevere and Italians Enrico Paoloni and Paolo Abetoni. After a one-year co-sponsorship with Riso Scotti in 1998, MG Maglificio withdrew from cycling as a sponsor.

MG Maglificio was already a co-sponsor in the 1991 season of the Del Tongo team by Abetoni. This team had riders such as Fabio Baldato, Franco Ballerini, Franco Chioccioli, Dag-Erik Pedersen and the young sprinter Mario Cipollini. In 1992, under the guidance of Flemish team management, and with GB and Bianchi as co-sponsors, the team was expanded and included such Belgian talents as Carlo Bomans and Andrej Tchmil, as well as neo-prof Davide Rebellin.

The team was immediately successful, with four Giro stage wins by Mario Cipollini, was also victorious in Gent–Wevelgem. Chioccioli won a stage in the Tour de France and finished 3rd overall in the Giro.

More Belgians arrived in 1993 with Wilfried Peeters and Johan Museeuw. Baldato won two Giro stages. Polish rider Zenon Jaskuła won a stage 16 and finished 3rd overall in the Tour de France. Mario Cipollini was especially successful in the Flemish spring classics, winning E3 Prijs Vlaanderen and Gent–Wevelgem, among other races. To top that off, Museeuw was victorious at the Tour of Flanders.