Autogiro d'Italia - Motor Racing

Regularity rallies are one of the great italian racing traditions which deserve to be taken back into play. Autogiro d’Italia is to be considered from 2019 a fixed date in the Historical Challenges calendar.
A time – speed – distance race where participants need to comply with a schedule and a road map or maybe just a tourist raid, these are both the spirit and the attitude with which drivers and teams shall be asked to face a series of stages over a six days event which will take contendants accross cities of art and culture with a true italian atmosphere.

From 2020 it will also be possible to register to Autogiro Short Ride. Three days to get a glimpse of the great emotion that the event may bring along.

Autogiro d’Italia 2022

Italy as you have never seen it

A historic race and an epic itinerary to discover. From Giovanni Agnelli, Emanuele Bricherasio, Vincenzo Lancia and many other names of great importance as Mario Umberto Borzacchini, Tazio Nuvolari, Campari, Varzi, Taruffi and Fangio to nowadays Markku Allen or Riccardo Patrese. Many drivers have accepted the challenge and enjoyed the blending of emotions that Autogiro offers.

Travel to the South of Italy from the 22 until the 28 of May

Ostia- Aterni, Pescaria and nowadays Pescara, the city of Gabriele Mathonè and Gabriele D’Annunzio, the Neolithic city which boasts stories and remains dating from more than 6000 years ago. Vieste and the Gargano with a splendid coast full of beaches and marvellous sea caves. Pizzomunno, the Svevo Castel, the trabucchi and the coastal towers, Polignano a Mare whit its medieval suburb perched on the high and dipped cliffs that sees houses and lodges overhanging on the sea, and where the elegant promenade hosts the statue of Mister Volare, and again Marina di Ugento and the exquisite Mar Ionio whit its crystalline waters among the most beautiful of the Salento.

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What to say about Matera and Campobasso, milestones on southern Italy? The first one whit it’s Sassi caves, and the crypt of the Peccato Originale, an oratory decorated with frescoes aged five hundred years before Giotto that makes it known as the Sistine Chapel of the parietal painting age, while the second of longboards origins and maybe already existing in the VIII century, with its own defensive walls, was built on the remains of an older fortification. The Monforte Castel, the church of saint George and the Saint Bartolome, the boarding school Maria Pagano, the cathedral in Neoclassic and decorated whit valuables frescos of Amedeo Trivisonno and Romeo Musa, are a priceless testimony of history and culture.
All of this and more is how much can experience those who will take part to the Autogiro d’ Italia 2022; an edition which will magnify southern Italy with the Greek colonies that extend from Calabria to Sicily, from Campania to Puglia became the crib of the European civilization and not only.
An edition unmissable dedicated to only fifty crews and their cars. A must edition because culture, history, art and natural beauties have never been so close.

Autogiro d'Italia 2022

Crew number 208 Zappelli – Scandurra driving a 1995 Ferrari 355 GTS win the fourth edition of the Autogiro d’Italia.
Reggianini – Scano on a 1966 Ferrari GT 330 2 +2 awarded with the 2022 Concours d’Elegance.

Beautiful Piazza della Rinascita, also known as Piazza Salotto, heart of the city life of Pescara, the Abruzzo county seat, which framed the start of the 2022 edition of Autogiro d’Italia a week ago, has again welcomed all participants return to base after six legs and 1610 kilometres. The 2022 edition of Autogiro d’Italia has brought all crews to sweep along the beautiful roads of southern Italy.

The last time distance trial was held on Corso Umberto I and then the participants parade in which cars have been exhibited as if it were an out of doors museum.

Crew 208 Zappelli – Scandurra has won for the third time in a row the highest step of the podium, while the second position has been achieved by Crew 2018 Tommasi – Boschetti on a 1980 Alfa Rome Duetto, third place corresponding to crew 223 Dell’Oro – Rusconi on a 1976 Alfa Romeo 1300 .

The 2022 Concour d’Elegance has been awarded to crew 240 Reggianini – Scano on a 1966 Ferrari GT 330 which belonged to Commendatore Enzo Ferrari.

“ I do believe that this fourth edition of the Autogiro d’Italia has confirmed once again how much enthusiasm, friendship and passion is brought in to the event by our participants – says Race Director Giampiero Sacchi. I have always thought that their satisfaction and enjoyment would be the best recognition to us, and an award which would help us forget how many and how big efforts we carry on every year to build up such a complex and complicated event.

I am extremely happy to see here in Pescara so many beautiful classic cars and participants brought together as a group whose friendship has been growing up day after day, stage after stage, kilometre after kilometre. Having travelled throughout southern Italy has been a unique sensation which we will hardly forget.

It is with great pleasure that I take this occasion to congratulate all classes podiums, and of course the winner in the final standing, crew Zappelli – Scandurra, whose third victory in a row makes them enter our Hall of Fame. Autogiro d’Italia is not an easy stroll, it requires a good mix of precision and perseverance. Tiredness comes out sooner or later and motivation makes the difference.

I wish to thank the City of Pescara which has welcomed us with great enthusiasm and all municipalities involved. Special thanks also to the City of Matera, to ASI under whose name we operate with pride, to CSI, to our sponsors which are a true support not only economically speaking, to the Carabinieri and to the Lega del Filo d’Oro. Many thanks also to the huge team which is our organizing group and finally to all participants which have relied their confidence on us. From now on we are just moving towards a magnificent Autogiro d’Italia 2023”

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Mercedes-Benz, a fully electric net zero emissions car, places second in the final standing of the super car class of the Autogiro d’ Italia.

On the one hand Autogiro d’ Italia represents the tradition of sports and the motorsport legacy, on the other hand we have the eco-friendly mobility with net zero emissions, clean and sustainable, that no doubt represents the future.

Mercedes Benz has certainly written sport cars history, but is also the one that can narrate a way of traveling which provides the best expression of technology applied to the automotive industry.

MB’ EQC a fully electric net zero emissions car, which allows more than 400 kilometres of battery life its already available, but the real news is that the EQC was registered in the super car class of the 2021 Autogiro d’Italia.

Courtesy of the Rossi concessionaire, driven by crew Paloni – Conti, the EQC has taken part to the 2021 Autogiro d’Italia on the super car class, a challenge made of more than 300 km to be covered daily including skill tests and harsh weather conditions that have put to the test the technological part of this car but at the same time has been an evidence to prove the real capacities of this car.

Despite the toughness of the path which on many occasions brought the crews 1400m above the sea level , and the long distances covered in every stage of which two exceeded the 300 km, the EQC has classified second in the super car category showing once again If any were needed that the combination net zero emission and the highest level of performance is possible and Mercedes Benz is deemed a pioneer in the field of green mobility.