RAID DELL’ETNA

THE TWENTIETH EDITION OF THE RAID ETNA TOOK PLACE IN SICILY ON 24-30 SEPTEMBER 2017. AN INTERNATIONAL EVENT INVOLVING CREWS FROM SEVERAL COUNTRIES ON A CIRCUIT OF OVER 1000 KM, IT RUNS PAST SOME OF THE MOST EXCLUSIVE NOBLE RESIDENCES AND THROUGH THE LESSER-KNOWN, MORE INTRIGUING PARTS OF THE ISLAND. THE LEGENDARY PRE-1969 VINTAGE CARS WERE THE ULTIMATE STARS OF THE EVENT, WHILE SPECIAL TRIBUTE WAS ALSO PAID TO THE PORSCHES, BOTH TRADITIONAL AND MODERN.

THE OFFICIAL START, HELD IN PALERMO ON SUNDAY 24 SEPTEMBER, WAS ATTENDED BY MAYOR LEOLUCA ORLANDO. THE RACE THEN HEADED TOWARDS SOME MAGNIFICENT TOWNS AND PLACES OF INTEREST, SUCH AS RAGUSA IBLA, PASSING THE CASTLES OF FALCONARA AND DONNAFUGATA, THE VILLA DEL CASALE IN PIAZZA ARMERINA, A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE, PERGUSA, ETNA, ENNA, THE CHARMING TAORMINA, WITH A PROCESSION OF CARS ALONG THE CENTRAL CORSO UMBERTO, AND CATANIA, WHERE THE EBERHARD CUP OF THE LADIES (COPPA DELLE DAME) AND THE ARRIVAL PARADE WERE HELD IN THE PIAZZA UNIVERSITÀ.

THE CREW FORMED BY DANIELA AND MILENA GUAITA AND THE LANCIA APPIA WON THE “EBERHARD & CO. CUP OF THE LADIES” (COPPA DELLE DAME), A KEY MOMENT HIGHLIGHTED BY EBERHARD & CO.’S MANAGING DIRECTOR, MARIO PESERICO, WHO DELIVERED A SPEECH TO THE AUDIENCE AND PRESENTED THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED TROPHIES. THE CREW WERE AWARDED 2 BEAUTIFUL TABLE CLOCKS, THE “TAZIO NUVOLARI DESK CLOCKS”, IN THE PRESENCE OF THE EVENT ORGANISERS.

THE GRAND FINALE, AT THE PALAZZO PLATAMONE IN CATANIA, SAW THE OVERALL WINNERS OF THE RAID AND THE EBERHARD & CO. TROPHY, GIUSEPPE AND FRANCESCO DI PIETRA, ON BOARD A 1958 FIAT 600. THEY ALSO WON A TAZIO NUVOLARI DESK CLOCK.

BERND AND CHRISTIANE DANNENMAIER GAINED SECOND PLACE IN THE OVERALL RANKING, IN A 1956 PORSCHE 356 A SPEEDSTER, WHILE ALESSANDRO GIRARDI AND SIMONETTA MASTELLINI FINISHED IN THIRD PLACE, IN A 1955 PORSCHE 356 PRE-A.