GRAN PREMIO NUVOLARI

VICTORY FOR THE DUO OF GIOVANNI MOCERI AND DANIELE BONETTI, FOLLOWED BY CLASSICTEAM EBERHARD’S ALMIGHTY VESCO AND GUERINI, CONCLUDED THE 28TH GRAN PREMIO NUVOLARI, THE FAMOUS CLASSIC CAR RACE DEDICATED TO THE MYTHICAL DRIVER TAZIO NUVOLARI, WHICH EBERHARD & CO. BOTH SPONSORS AND OFFERS ITS RESOURCES TO AS OFFICIAL TIME KEEPER. FOR ALMOST THIRTY YEARS NOW, SHARED PASSION HAS BOUND TOGETHER THE MAISON, ONE OF THE GREATEST DRIVERS EVER IN THE WORLD OF MOTORING AND THE RACE IN HIS HONOUR, WHICH EVERY YEAR BRINGS FANS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TOGETHER IN MANTUA. THIS MUCH-ANTICIPATED EVENT, ORGANIZED BY MANTOVA CORSE TOGETHER WITH AUTOMOBILE CLUB MANTOVA AND THE MUSEO TAZIO NUVOLARI, HAS GROWN IN PRESTIGE YEAR UPON YEAR, AND NOW STANDS AS ONE OF THE MOST PRE-EMINENT EVENTS IN THE RACING CALENDAR. 300 WONDERFUL VINTAGE CARS PRODUCED BETWEEN 1919 AND 1972 SET OFF FROM THE HISTORIC PIAZZA SORDELLO, TRAVERSING THE PO VALLEY AND APENNINES TO REACH THE ADRIATIC RIVIERA AND RIMINI, PASSING THROUGH THE ANCIENT CENTRES OF SIENA, AREZZO AND URBINO, BEFORE RETURNING TO MANTUA, WHERE THE WINNERS, AS CUSTOM DICTATES, ARE WARMLY RECEIVED ON THE STAGE IN PIAZZA SORDELLO. IT’S AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY OVER MORE THAN 1,000 KILOMETRES.

A LONG LIST OF SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS HAD BEEN ORGANISED BY EBERHARD & CO., STARTING WITH THE CONFIRMED AND EAGERLY AWAITED PRESENCE OF TWO-TIME WORLD RALLY CHAMPION MIKI BIASION, THE MAISON’S BRAND AMBASSADOR, WHO FORMED A SPECIAL CREW TOGETHER WITH THE GENERAL MANAGER OF EBERHARD & CO., MARIO PESERICO. IF THAT WASN’T ENOUGH, FOR THE SECOND TIME AS THE OFFICIAL EBERHARD CREW AFTER THEIR SUCCESS LAST YEAR, THE “CAMPIONISSIMI” ANDREA VESCO AND ANDREA GUERINI WERE RACING ONCE AGAIN: THEY WON SECOND PLACE ON THE PODIUM, CONFIRMING THEIR AUTHENTIC CREDENTIALS AS RACING ACES. AS ALWAYS, CLASSICTEAM EBERHARD WAS PRESENT WITH A REMARKABLE TEAM OF 13 CREWS, LED BY CORRADO CORNELIANI WHO, SINCE 2010, HAS ALSO REPRESENTED THE BRAND, FROM A RACING POINT OF VIEW. THE RACE SAW ALSO A NUMBER OF CREWS TAKING PART UNDER THE FLAG OF VINTAGE RACING TEAM EBERHARD.

AS YOU WOULD EXPECT, SOME OF EBERHARD & CO.’S FINEST PRODUCTS ALSO MADE AN APPEARANCE, WITH THE NEW NUVOLARI LEGEND WATCH BEING UNVEILED TO ALL THE COMPETITORS AT THE OPENING COCKTAIL EVENT ORGANISED BY EBERHARD AT PICCININI JEWELLERY IN MANTUA, AND THEN PUT ON DISPLAY AT THE EBERHARD SPACE IN PIAZZA SORDELLO FOR THE DURATION OF THE EVENT, WHILE THE WINNERS OF SUCH A SPECIAL RACE AS THIS, WERE OF COURSE WELCOMED AND CROWNED AT THE FINISH LINE WITH THE MUCH-COVETED PRIZE OF A PAIR OF WATCHES FROM THE TAZIO NUVOLARI COLLECTION.