EBERHARD & CO. AND RALLYLEGEND
19-22 OCTOBER 2017

EBERHARD & CO. AND RALLYLEGEND

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SAN MARINO, 19 -22 OCTOBER 2017. THE WEEKEND THAT CELEBRATES THE GREATEST CHAMPIONS OF RALLYING OF ALL TIME TOOK PLACE ONCE AGAIN THIS YEAR IN SAN MARINO, IN WHAT IS ONE OF THE MOST KEENLY ANTICIPATED INTERNATIONAL EVENTS BY ENTHUSIASTS IN THE AUTOMOTIVE WORLD.

THE APPOINTMENT, NOW IN ITS 15TH YEAR, COMBINES VINTAGE AND THE RALLYING OF TODAY INTO AN ADRENALINE-FUELLED FOUR DAYS OF «FULL-IMMERSION», AND NOW ATTRACTS MORE THAN 60,000 SPECTATORS FROM ACROSS EUROPE. IT ALSO MARKS THE END OF THE ANNUAL SERIES OF EVENTS FOR VINTAGE CARS THAT EBERHARD & CO. SUPPORTS AND AS ALWAYS. IT IS ALWAYS A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS, WITH DRIVERS AND CARS OFFERING EXCITEMENT AND THRILLING THE CROWD, WHATEVER THEIR NATIONALITY. INSIDE THE EBERHARD SPACE AT THE EVENT VILLAGE THIS YEAR, THE TIMES ARE TOLD OF A GREAT WATCHMAKING BRAND AND A WONDERFUL COMMEMORATIVE WATCH DEDICATED TO AN IMPORTANT ANNIVERSARY: THE CHRONO4 130. FOR THIS OCCASION ALSO, THE EBERHARD STAND WAS ALSO HOST TO ANOTHER PRODUCT PREMIERE, THE FRUIT OF A VERY SPECIAL PARTNERSHIP THAT THE BRAND HAS ESTABLISHED WITH COMPANIES WHICH, LIKE THEMSELVES, ARE ABLE TO EXPRESS THE BEST IN QUALITY AND EXCELLENCE: THE HIGH-PERFORMANCE BLIZZARD QUATTRO SPECIAL EDITION EBERHARD & CO. SKI, OFFERING REFINED DETAILING TO CELEBRATE THE 130TH ANNIVERSARY AND EVEN RECALLING THE ICONIC CHRONO4 WATCH IN THE GRAPHICS OF THE SKIS.

AMONG THE MOST EAGERLY-ANTICIPATED APPEARANCES AT RALLYLEGEND WAS THE TWO-TIME WORLD CHAMPION MIKI BIASION, BRAND AMBASSADOR FOR EBERHARD & CO. AND ALL SET TO SHOW OFF WEARING THE WATCH AND COLOURS OF THE MAISON AND AS EVER, A GREAT SYMBOL OF ITS EXPERIENCE AND RENOWN. HIS CAR, THE LEGENDARY LANCIA 037, WAS ESPECIALLY CUSTOMISED TO FLY THE FLAG FOR THE BRAND. WITHIN THE RICH CALENDAR OF DATES AND EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE VILLAGE, MANY WERE WAITING FOR AN EXCEPTIONAL FEW HOURS INVOLVING THE CHAMPION FROM BASSANO DEL GRAPPA: SATURDAY MORNING, INSIDE THE EBERHARD AREA, GUESTS WERE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET BIASION FOR A SPECIAL SESSION AND AUTOGRAPHS.

THE PODIUM AT THE END OF THE THREE STAGES WAS AS FOLLOWS: MARCO BIANCHINI AND DAIANA DARDERI, ABOARD A 1985 LANCIA 037, WINNER OF THE HISTORICS, SIMONE ROMAGNA WITH DINO LAMONATO (WITH A LANCIA DELTA INTEGRALE OF 1990) FIRST IN THE MYTHS CATEGORY, WHILE LUCIANO COBBE WITH FABIO TURCO (2002 FORD FOCUS WRC) WON FIRST PLACE IN THE WRC-KIT CATEGORY. EBERHARD OFFERED THE PRIZE FOR THE HISTORIC CATEGORY (WITH A FLUSH OF SAN MARINO CREWS AT THE TOP): TWO WATCHES FROM THE CHAMPION COLLECTION.

THE EVENT WAS SEALED BY WHAT WAS UNDOUBTEDLY THE MOST WIDELY ANTICIPATED SPECTACLE OF ALL, THE REUNION OF THE MOST BELOVED WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONS IN HISTORY (ALMOST THE ENTIRE HALL OF FAME OF THE WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP) WHICH GATHERED FOR THE “COLIN MCRAE TRIBUTE”, COMMEMORATING THE GREAT SCOTTISH DRIVER, WORLD CHAMPION IN 1995, ON THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS UNTIMELY DEATH. STIG BLOMQVIST, ARI VATANEN, TIMO SALONEN, JUHA KANKKUNEN, MIKI BIASION, DIDIER AURIOL, MARCUS GRONHOLM, PETTER SOLBERG, SEBASTIEN LOEB AND SEBASTIEN OGIER, HANS THORSZELIUS, BJORN WALDEGAARD, LUIS MOYA, DEREK RINGER AND NICKY GRIS, KRIS MEEKE, THIERRY NEUVILLE, TOGETHER WITH SANDRO MUNARI AND SIMO LAMPINEN: THE CREAM OF THE CROP WHO, FROM THE ARENA STAGE, TOLD THE STORY OF COLIN MCRAE, AN EXTRAORDINARY TALENT, BELOVED JUST AS MUCH BY HIS RIVALS.