For the third year running, the Red Arrow returns to Sorrento with the Roads by 1000 Miglia format, designed to bring a taste of the 1000 Miglia outside the classic route of the Most Beautiful Race in the World. This is Sorrento Roads, a journey to discover the Sorrento Peninsula and the Amalfi Coast, which this year will be enriched with the new feature of the race passages through Salerno and Paestum and the (strictly car-free) docking in Capri.
After the Technical and Administrative Checks scheduled for this afternoon, the cars will take part in the regularity challenge tomorrow that, from Piazza Andrea Veniero in Sorrento, will climb towards Sant’Agata sui due Golfi and reach the Nastro Verde for the first Time Trials; the passage through Positano, Praiano, Amalfi and Minori and the second block of Time Trials in the port of Maiori will offer the beauty of the Amalfi Coast, before continuing along the coast on the slopes of the Valle dell’Irno towards Salerno and Cilento. After stopping for lunch in Capaccio, the participants will be able to visit the Archaeological Park of Paestum, leaving the competing cars on display in the splendid setting in front of the excavations.
The departure for the second sector of the race will include the Time Trials in Marina di Arechi, the port-island designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, and, before leaving the southern gulf of the Sorrento peninsula, the cars will liven up the central streets of Salerno, with a Passage Control in Corso Garibaldi and the last sports trials along the Sorrento State Road.
On the morning of Saturday 6 April, while the cars are on display between the gardens of the Sorrento Foundation and Piazza Andrea Veniero for evaluation by the Popular Jury, which will elect the car with the best design and the one that best represents style, the participants will reach the island of Capri by sea to have lunch in one of the world’s most famous and dreamed of settings. At the end of the day, the participants will compete in the Città di Sorrento Trophy, a 1 vs 1 knockout regularity challenge that will liven up the city centre.
There are two pre-war cars in the race (the 1927 Bugatti 35B and the 1938 BMW 328) as well as numerous specimens from prestigious car manufacturers and models.
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