After three years in the wilderness, Ivan Santaromita is finally starting to feel at home again.
Despite not being back in the WorldTour, the Italian is nevertheless back at a native team in the form of Nippo-Vini Fantini – a welcome sanctuary after a miserable two years at the Australian Orica team and a misplaced 2016 with Skydive Dubai.
“My mind is in a much better place,” Santaromita told Cyclingnews in Argentina on the final day of the Vuelta a San Juan, his first race with his new team.
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“Now I feel better because I’m in an Italian team, with friendly people. It’s more familiar, more like a group. I feel part of the family of Nippo-Vini Fantini. I feel better for sure.”
Towards the end of the 2015 season, Santaromita revealed the discord that had emerged during his tenure at Orica, which he joined from BMC in 2014, and he later expanded on the clash of mentalities between the two nationalities, commenting that "the longer it went on, the worse it got”.
He knew he needed to get out and, though he pined to return to supporting Grand Tour leaders as he had done with Vincenzo Nibali and Cadel Evans, he wound up at the Continental-level Skydive Dubai outfit.
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