COURMAYEUR, Italy, May 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Grand Alpine
Journey of the Coppa delle Alpi by 1000 Miglia 2024.has
finished. At the end of this Grand Tour of 1600
kilometres along the Alpine ridge, which touched all 7
countries of the macro-region, along which the 30 competing
crews challenged each other in 90 Time Trials and 18 Average
Trials, it was time to wrap things up.
The morning opened at 9.30 a.m. with the prize-giving
ceremony: the winners were Stefano
Ginesi and Susanna
Rohr in a 1934 Fiat 508 S Balilla; second place
went to the Belgian crew Decremer-Mertens in their 1951
Aston Martin Db2 and third were Carrara and
Consoli in a 1953 Jaguar XK 120 Ots. This was
followed by the Final Conference, which gave a sense of the
thematic itinerary of the talk legs, during which a team of experts
chosen by 1000 Miglia, who travelled in 8 historic cars following
the convoy, met with institutions and representatives of
local best practices. Alberto
Piantoni, CEO of 1000 Miglia Srl, presented the
project as follows: "Bringing classic cars to the Alps to talk
about sustainability seemed crazy at first glance. But the boldness
of the 1000 Miglia today is no longer about speed, it is
boldness of thought: with this project we wanted to create a
network between the Alpine communities, which have a reserve of
important values that we wanted to narrate with the help of these
cars, masterpieces of technique and design. The towns responded
enthusiastically and even opened the doors of their pedestrian
centres to us". Two macro-areas were discussed in depth by the
numerous guests on stage: "Traces of place consciousness and
good practices in the Alpine platform" followed by
"Scenarios and the great challenges of the Alpine
platform".
This edition of the Coppa delle Alpi will remain a
one-off and in 2025 the race will again be held in winter.
The Think Tank part will take an independent route, mindful
of what this journey has left behind. Landscapes, voices, values,
the consciousness of an urgent change enclosed in an image that has
remained imprinted in the eyes of the participants: that of the
mer de glace from the Refuge Montenvers or, better, what
remains of it.
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