The historic center of Turin has come alive from the first morning when the car transporters began to unload the racing cars that have made the history of motoring in Piazza San Carlo: there is something to feast your eyes on because they are displayed in what is a a real free open-air museum as many as 50 cars.
Autolook Week Torino thus opens its doors offering visitors to the Piedmontese capital the opportunity to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the Italian GP which will be held in Monza over the weekend. It will be the race that celebrates the centenary of the Autodromo Nazionale, for which Andrea Levy, together with Paolo D’Alessio, has seen fit to make fans relive the flavor of 100 years of racing in the “Temple of speed”.
AutoLook Week
Photo by: Franco Nugnes
And since the racetrack has not made its history only with F1, also hosting the 1000 Km for endurance races, world rallies and motorcycles, the experience that Turin will offer will be immersive in discovering the motorsport of yesterday and today.
AutoLook Week Turin: young and old alike to admire the history of Motorsport in Piazza San Carlo
Photo by: Franco Nugnes
It is one of the few occasions to see Alex Zanardi’s Reynard 961 – Honda: it is precisely the car with which Zanna had made the … overtaking at the Corkscrew in Laguna Seca to win the Indycar race on Brian Herta in that historic 8 September 1996 His wife Daniela wanted to pay tribute to AutoLook Week with a concrete testimony, at a time when Alex is still struggling for his slow and long recovery.
AutoLook Week in Piazza San Carlo in Turin
Photo by: Franco Nugnes
But not to be missed will be Michael Schumacher’s Ferrari 399s and Gilles Villeneuve’s 312 T5 or Vittorio Brambilla’s March 761 victorious in the Austrian GP, just to name a few, but you will also see Dindo Capello’s Audi R15 TDI Plus. queen in the WEC, not to mention Nicola Larini’s Alfa 155 DTM and the many, many world rally cars from the most diverse eras, from the Fiat 124 Abarth to the Lancia Stratos to the various Subaru and Toyota.
AutoLook Week Turin: the Lancia 037 admired by the public
Photo by: Franco Nugnes
“A great motoring event returns to Turin in the centenary year of the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza – explains Andrea Levy, president of AutoLook Week Turin -. The public will be able to admire the most iconic models of sports cars and motorcycles in Piazza San Carlo, from 7 to 11 September, and will also be able to see them in a dynamic version during the parades in the city center. A free event that will be an immersion in the passion for motorsport in the week of the Monza Grand Prix ”.
In the afternoon at the OGR there will be the delivery ceremony of the Autolook Awards, the award that will recognize the leading brands in racing the ability to communicate motorsport with innovative messages resulting from a creativity that over time has also had some interesting social impacts.
AutoLook Week Turin: some rally cars with the Stratos in the foreground
Photo by: Franco Nugnes
At 7 pm there will be an exhibition in the dynamic circuit set up between Piazza San Carlo, via Roma and Piazza Castello of the cars that will parade in a motor show full of charm for the exclusivity of the models. Also not to be missed is the photographic exhibition set up in via Po with 150 images taken by over 20 international Formula 1 photographers.
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