Niccolò Bonifazio has signed for the nascent Bahrain Merida team for the 2017 season after reaching an agreement with Trek-Segafredo to rescind his existing contact at the end of the current campaign. The Italian has penned a two-year deal with the new team.
The 22-year-old only joined Trek-Segafredo at the beginning of 2016 after spending the first two seasons of his professional career at Lampre, where he signalled his potential by winning the Coppa Agostoni in 2014 and then placing fifth in his debut Milan-San Remo last year.
Bonifazio is the twelfth signing to be confirmed by the Bahrain Merida team. The squad will be headlined by Vincenzo Nibali, and also features Giovanni Visconti, Enrico Gasparotto, Heinrich Haussler and Kanstantin Siutsou.
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“First of all I would like to say thank you both to Team Trek-Segafredo for the willingness to reach an agreement and meet my desire to have the chance to express to the maximum my potential, and Team Bahrain Merida that offers me this great opportunity,” Bonifazio said.
“This year has been for me a season of great improvement, during which I could ride all top-level races. Now I look ahead with great enthusiasm for this new adventure. A project built by people that I trusted, that immediately convinced me. I’ll try to be my best next two years, to prove my worth and repay the confidence placed in me.”
Bonifazio’s move to Bahrain Merida reunites him with his former Lampre manager Brent Copeland, who is the general manager of the new project. Copeland offered a withering rebuttal of Bonifazio’s complaints about his time at Lampre earlier this year, telling Tuttobici that the team had been “left disappointed from a professional standpoint and, above all, a human one.”
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