martedì 26 settembre 2017

Italian Championship of gymkhana in Vespa in Ciampino (24-9-2017)

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You may ask, "But what kind of a race is this? Is he following also these?" Actually, I was also wondering tihs until yesterday, this is a race I didn't absolutely know to exist until about a couple of days ago. But I did not go to see it, it came to me: it was in the parking place under my home. It was supposed to start at 9.30, but the speaker wakes me up early at 8.30 with preparations.


The race is to complete, obviously in Vespa, a spiral track of about 400 meters, alternating with a slalom trait between the bowls and the passage of a seesaw. The result is given by the time, plus 2 seconds of penalty for each pin struck down or foot on the ground. There are two runs.


There are 4 categories: up to 50cc, over 50cc, PX (Wide Vespe) and under 18. I wonder how much advantage you have in having a more powerful Vespa, as the course does not allow you to accelerate much: at the end the best time of the upper category will be 1'00 ", that of the lower category 1'06", which would hve been third in the other category. Times of the big Vespe were instead higher, as their task was the most difficult. I would have already had trouble understanding which way to go, let alone not striking down the pins! And I mean also on foot or on a bicycle , since I've never driven a scooter in my life (my parents were scared, and for me a bicycle was enough to go around in Monza).

In the under 18 category there were also boys and girls much younger than 18: there was also a girl of 10. While seniors were all men, in the under 18 category there were perhaps more girls than boys . In all categories, however, there were no pre-selections: if I understood well, to take part, you oly needed to be a members of a Vespa club. The gap between the first and the last was enormous: there were amateurs, even of very advanced age, struggling to complete the course, not always succeeding.


This is what I understood watching part of the races: the event lasted 4 hours (against the expected 3) and I would not have seen it all, also because there was the Berlin Marathon. In any case, it was fun to observe from very close a tribe so far away from me,  like the bikers.





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