The race was won by the Italian rider Carlo Oriani of the Maino team.

The race organizers decided to change back to the way the general classification had been calculated in the earlier editions, by the individual and the awarding of points based on how high the rider placed in each stage rather than doing a team points based system like the previous edition.

There were eight teams that competed in the race: Ganna-Dunlop, Gerbi-Dunlop, Globo-Dunlop, Legnano-Dunlop, Maino-Pirelli, Otav-Pirelli, Peugeot Italy-Tedeschi, and Stucchi-Dunlop.

[5] Other notable Italian riders that started the race included Giovanni Rossignoli, Alfredo Sivocci, Carlo Oriani, and Giuseppe Azzini.

[7] In the second stage, Pavesi suffered from a flat tire, but he was able to get back to the peloton, and then get away from the other riders, finishing alone.

[13] Pavesi finished the stage in twelfth place, and lost the lead to Azzini, who was only one point ahead of Oriani.

Only the first seven riders could be ranked by the jury, the rest was put ex aequo on the eighth place.

He changed a wheel with his team mate Agostoni, and had to chase the main group (including Azzini).

For these cyclists, the points they received from each of their stage placing's were added up for the general classification.

[20] Upon winning the race, Carlo Oriani enlisted in the Corps of the Bersaglieri, the Italian infantry, and got commissioned into World War I.