The Macerata uphill time trial is ready to host the Italian circus of uphill time trials for the second round of CIVM and CIVSA
Taken from the Sardinian race in Alghero, the Italian mountain speed motor racing championship is about to arrive in the Marche region with the second titled round. Also for the Italian Speed Salita Autostoriche it will be the second appointment after the Tuscan start at the Consuma. The organizing staff of the Automobile Club Macerata, of ASD AC Macerata, supported by the Municipality of Sarnano, the Province of Macerata, the Marche Region and also the support of the Association Land of Pilots and Motors, is finalizing the final details of the event. The Scarfiotti/Sarnano-Sassotetto Trophy is staged in one of the most significant landscapes of the national timed uphill races, the Sibillini Mountains, with a spectacular view of the region up to the Adriatic and the undeniable technical and spectacular characteristics that make it an appointment not to be missed for pilots and passionate spectators of the past and present.
Registration for the race is already open and will close at 24 on Monday 24 April, to finally get to know the starting lineup of the 32° Lodovico Scarfiotti Trophy (CIVM) and the 15° Historical Trophy L. Scarfiotti (CIVSA). The race will also be valid for the Centre-North Italian Mountain Speed Trophy, for the Challenge Assominicar Salita and for the Challenge Salita Piloti Autostoriche. The event continues to remember with the 12° Giovanni Battistelli Memorial, the previous president of the Macerata Automobile Club, unforgettable proponent of the resumption of the Marche race in 2008, which was then able to regain its own space with important meaning and validity, thanks also to the work carried out by the team of the current president Enrico Ruffini, despite some notable defections.
The event program will begin Friday 28 April with sporting and technical checks at the Loggiato in Via Roma and in the Bozzoni car park. With regard to historic cars, the checks can be completed on sSaturday morning 29 April, during the official tests of modern cars.
In the afternoon, always Saturday 29 instead there will be the official trials of historic cars. Per Sunday 30 April the usual program foresees the departure at 9,00 of the CIVSA race for historic cars and in the late morning, after 10,30 the way to modern cars for the CIVM race. The awards for historic cars will take place at the Auditorium in Via Benedetto Costa in Sarnano, while for modern cars they will be in Sassotetto in the Fonte Lardina area at the finish.
The presence of cars history for the tricolor race adds more charm to an event that in Sarnano for over half a century has been captivated by young people and more mature generations: and of 50 years ago the first success of Mauro Nesti, obtained driving his March-Bmw with the monstrous time for those times of 6'12"7 on the long course of 12,4 km, which he lowered in one fell swoop 15 seconds the previous limit set by Domenico Scola senior two years earlier. The memories of those extraordinary and very popular editions are still alive in the minds of enthusiasts, who can admire the evolutions of today's champions and modern and historic cars.