learco guerra won ten of the seventeen stages that comprised the 1934 giro d'italia. after alfredo binda abandoned the race because of injuries sustained from being hit by a police motorcycle, guerra's biggest competitor was francesco camusso. camusso gained the lead after his stage thirteen performance. the race's fourteenth stage was a time trial and camusso lost over four minutes to guerra because of his poor performance on the day. the two riders battled all the way to milan, but guerra won by a margin of fifty-one seconds. the 1935 edition of the giro saw some changes to how it was run: the organizers removed the time bonuses for winning stages and began to make use of half stages — which is when two legs are held in the same day. this race was the last time alfredo binda competed and the first time future great gino bartali participated. the eventual winner, vasco bergamaschi, originally came to the giro to work for his teammate, the great costante girardengo. however, he gained the lead for a day after the first stage and regained it again after the sixth day of racing.