It's a fine race and attracts lots of top Italian athletes, who are seriously good at downhill. I did it in 1981 and then in 2002. The big change over those years is the engineering of the path, which resembles something of a motorway in places. There's alot of vertically placed slabs to drain water off and it's easy to take a stumble on the way down when you're tired and your eyes are watering.