ACI commemorates the first Reale Premio Roma: a Bugatti Type 35 returns to the capital after 100 years
The first major international motorsport competition hosted in Rome
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A Bugatti Type 35 returns to the capital 100 years later. A century after its historic feat, a Bugatti Type 35 has once again taken to the streets of the "Circuito di Monte Mario", recalling the victory achieved by Carlo Masetti on 22 February 1925 in the first edition of the Reale Premio Roma, the first major international motor racing competition hosted in the capital..
The procession of vintage cars and motorcycles
.The re-enactment procession, with an honour escort by the Local Police of Roma Capitale, started from Piazza dei Quiriti, the heart of the celebratory event organised by the Automobile Club Roma, in collaboration with Prisca Taruffi and her 'Volpe Argentata Invitational', now in its seventh edition. More than 30 cars and a dozen vintage motorbikes paraded along the streets of the original 1925 route, with their destination the Parco di Roma Golf Club, where the vehicles will remain on display throughout the day on 8 June.
Also on the roads was Itala 65 Sport 2000 with which Taruffi won the Cimino Cup
.The event offered the Roman public a unique spectacle: alongside the Bugatti T35 - the model that has won the most competitions in motoring history - the 1966 Ginetta G4 Sport, winner of two FIA Gt European championships, and the 1934 Fiat 508 Balilla Coppa d'Oro, which belonged to the famous driver Claudio Maglioli, could be admired. Other stars of historic motoring included the 1930 Itala 65 Sport 2000 (in which Piero Taruffi won the Coppa del Cimino in 1931), the 1957 Lancia Aurelia B24, the 1965 Alfa Romeo GTA 1600, the 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB, the Ermini Spider 1100 Sport Competizione and the iconic 1968 Jaguar D Type 4200cc.
Fusco, cars that are extraordinary works of art
"We are truly happy to be here today surrounded by these extraordinary examples of vintage vehicles, cars and motorbikes of extraordinary artistic, technological, cultural and historical value, which we are pleased to have here thanks to the great commitment that their owners - museums, but above all private collectors - have dedicated to the maintenance and preservation of these extraordinary works of art," commented Giuseppina Fusco, president of the Automobile Club Roma. "The competition was won by Count Carlo Masetti, who won the prize having driven the circuit at an average speed of over 97 kilometres per hour, so a real record for that era, those roads and those cars," the president continued. "We are in the Jubilee year and therefore a double anniversary that we liked to celebrate and remember, also to continue promoting and enhancing the heritage of historic cars and motorbikes. An important heritage for our country that we must pass on and transfer to new generations'.
