Tag: penelope-cruz

The Final Convention In Courmayeur Closed The Coppa Delle Alpi 2024

Joydip SurLeave a comment

The Grand Alpine Journey of the Coppa delle Alpi by 1000 Miglia 2024 has finished. At the end of this Grand Tour of 1600 kilometres along the Alpine ridge, which touched all 7 countries of the macro-region, along which the 30 competing crews challenged each other in 90 Time Trials and 18 Average Trials, it was time to wrap things up.

The morning opened at 9.30 a.m. with the prize-giving ceremony: the winners were Stefano Ginesi and Susanna Rohr in a 1934 Fiat 508 S Balilla; second place went to the Belgian crew Decremer-Mertens in their 1951 Aston Martin Db2 and third were Carrara and Consoli in a 1953 Jaguar XK 120 Ots. This was followed by the Final Conference, which gave a sense of the thematic itinerary of the talk legs, during which a team of experts chosen by 1000 Miglia, who travelled in 8 historic cars following the convoy, met with institutions and representatives of local best practices. Alberto Piantoni, CEO of 1000 Miglia Srl, presented the project as follows: “Bringing classic cars to the Alps to talk about sustainability seemed crazy at first glance. But the boldness  of the 1000 Miglia today is no longer about speed, it is boldness of thought: with this project we wanted to create a network between the Alpine communities, which have a reserve of important values that we wanted to narrate with the help of these cars, masterpieces of technique and design. The towns responded enthusiastically and even opened the doors of their pedestrian centres to us”. Two macro-areas were discussed in depth by the numerous guests on stage: “Traces of place consciousness and good practices in the Alpine platform” followed by “Scenarios and the great challenges of the Alpine platform”.

This edition of the Coppa delle Alpi will remain a one-off and in 2025 the race will again be held in winter. The Think Tank part will take an independent route, mindful of what this journey has left behind. Landscapes, voices, values, the consciousness of an urgent change enclosed in an image that has remained imprinted in the eyes of the participants: that of the mer de glace from the Refuge Montenvers or, better, what remains of it.

1000 Miglia 2024: List Of Accepted Cars Published

Joydip SurLeave a comment

With the completion of the work of the Selecting Commission, tasked with examining the applications received, the list of cars accepted for the 2024 edition of the 1000 Miglia is now officially made public. 33 nations will be represented, but Italy will still be the country with the largest number of competitors, and there will be 71 cars that took part in the historic 1000 Miglia race.

Line-ups like those of Alfa Romeos and Bugattis will be unparalleled, worthy of the Most Beautiful Race in the World. 50 Alfa Romeos, including a rare block of 6C 1750s and three 8Cs, 31 Porsches, 27 Jaguars, 25 Mercedes Benz, 21 Ferraris and 17 Bugattis will start from Brescia on June 11 and return on June 15, after covering the more than 2,000 kilometres of the route, which will have its usual half-way point in Rome on the evening of June 13.

Contending for victory with Andrea Vesco and Fabio Salvinelli in search of their fourth consecutive title, the fifth for Vesco who also triumphed in 2020 alongside his father Roberto, the Argentinean pair Juan Tonconogy and Barbara Ruffini, the last foreign crew on the race’s roll of honour with their 2018 victory, will return to the Viale Venezia platform. Belometti-Ricca, Fontanella-Covelli, Sisti-Gualandi and Turelli-Turelli lead the group of podium candidates.

The five-leg format has been confirmed, and the race will repeat the anti-clockwise direction as in 2021. Turin, Viareggio, Rome and Bologna will be the leg finishes before returning to Brescia. Also this year, the historic cars of the Red Arrow will be preceded by the 1000 Miglia Green and the Ferrari Tribute 1000 Miglia. Also returning will be the 1000 Miglia Experience, the event reserved for modern supercars and hyper-cars, now in its third year.

The cars accepted for the 1000 Miglia 2024, as a guarantee of excellence and authenticity, are all registered in accordance with the regulations of the Registro 1000 Miglia. The list is available on the official website 1000miglia.it.