Lo Spino Hillclimb
Aug 31, 2011 18:07:12 GMT
Post by fumobici on Aug 31, 2011 18:07:12 GMT
OK my father his wife and I had planned to make a pilgrimage to the Budrio Ocarina Festival- I'm not kidding, see here: www.ocarinafestival.it/ and had stopped in the town of Pieve Santo Stefano to get a coffee a cornetto and a copy of La Repubblica for the drive up the E45 from Tuscany to the little town of Budrio near Bologna which we did. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately depending on whether you'd rather see pictures of an ocarina festival or racing cars, the car wouldn't start after our stop there. There was however a hillclimb race going on on that last day of April and the racecars were pitted all up and down one of the main streets of Pieve Santo Stefano. Seeing as how we were going to be there for a couple of hours waiting for the ACI tow truck to arrive from Sansepolcro, we made the best of our unplanned detour and enjoyed the racing atmosphere.
It was actually a lot of fun, there were racing cars screaming up and down the open public streets going to a from from their pit stations to the tech inspection area on one end of the street and the starting area where the cars began their timed runs from the town, up a winding two lane road to the finish at the summit of the Passo dello Spino on the way to Chiusi della Verna.
Enough small talk then, here's what I saw:
And congratulations to any fellow petrolheads who made it this far! I'll be happy to jabber on about damper/suspension geometries, data logging hardware, diffusers, ground effect aerodynamics, carbon fiber layups and related arcana should it become necessary.
It was actually a lot of fun, there were racing cars screaming up and down the open public streets going to a from from their pit stations to the tech inspection area on one end of the street and the starting area where the cars began their timed runs from the town, up a winding two lane road to the finish at the summit of the Passo dello Spino on the way to Chiusi della Verna.
Enough small talk then, here's what I saw:
And congratulations to any fellow petrolheads who made it this far! I'll be happy to jabber on about damper/suspension geometries, data logging hardware, diffusers, ground effect aerodynamics, carbon fiber layups and related arcana should it become necessary.