Historic Minardi Day | More than 30 Formula 1 cars await you in Imola

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Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 April the Enzo and Dino Ferrari International Circuit will be the stage for the fourth edition of the Historic Minardi Day, the event that rewrote the rules of sporting events by placing the fans and the enthusiasts in centre stage and conceived and planned by the passion of Gian Carlo Minardi together with his brothers Giuseppe and Ferdinando and son Giovanni and brought onto the track alongside Formula Imola.

Thanks to the single ticket that can be bought at the Circuit and through TicketOne that gives access to all the most exclusive areas of the Santerno track such as the paddock, the pits and the terrace to see up close more that 30 Formula 1 racing cars together with cars from F2, F3, Prototypes, Supercars and Hyperc, Gran Turismo, to meet the drivers and engineers and to experience as a protagonist the weekend dedicated to international Motorsport and where it will be possible to take a trip through history through a “starting grid” of more than 30 Formula 1 racing cars.

The weekend’s key moments will be the on track exhibitions of the Formula 1 cars that will come back to racing around the 4,909 metres of the Imola track. More than 30 F1 racing cars for a 50 year trip through history, starting with the 1959 Cooper Maserati T51 up to the Toro Rosso STR03 in which Sebastian Vettel won his first grand prix in 2008, passing through the Minardi PS04 -189 – M192 – M194 – PS04 Alboreto, Martini, Bruni, Baumgartner and Sala, the Ferrari 312T – 126C4 – 312B2 – 312B3 – 643 chassis 128 – 639 chassis 106 – 412 T1 chassis 154 of Alboreto, Alesi, Ickx and Merzario, Lauda, Regazzoni, Mansell and Berger, the Williams FW14 – FW08C – FW16 of Rosberg, Patrese, Senna, Hill and Coulthard, the McLaren MP4/5 B of Ayrton Senna and Berger, the Tyrrell P36 of Scheckter and Depailler, the Tecno F1 123/3 chassis 005, the Wolf WR7 of James Hunt, the Theodore TR1, the Fittipaldi F8 of Keke Rosberg, the De Tomaso – Alfa Romeo, the Arrows A11- A21 – A22 of Verstappen, De La Rosa and Cheever, the March 761, the Surtees F5000, the Osella Fondmetal FA 1M and the Dallara-Consworth 190 of Pirro, De Cesaris and Morbidelli.

“Formula 1 will cut the ribbon of 1,000 grands prix. This is an important result, of which Minardi took part in 340 rounds, 34%. This result makes me proud,, also because as of today the Minardi Team is the ninth team with the most races, behind, Ferrari, McLaren, Williams, Lotus, Tyrrell, Brabham, Sauber and Renault. We will tell a part of these 340 grands prix in Imola on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28, April at the fourth edition of the Historic Minardi Day, together with many friends, drivers and engineers and the newest recruits who are taking their first steps in the world of karting. There will be a parterre of high calibre cars and drivers. We are now at the last stages and we are fine tuning the final details to excite and entertain the enthusiasts who will come to visit us.” Gian Carlo Minardi

The will be the extraordinary cars from F2, F3, Gp2 F3000 and the Prototypes such as the Alfa Romeo 33 TT 3 and the Lucchini Motorsport, Lancia Martini and Lotus Elise.

The engines are warming up for the fourth Historic Minardi Day

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Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th April the Enzo and Dino Ferrari International Circuit will be the stage for the fourth Historic Minardi Day, the event that rewrote the rules of sporting events by focussing on the fans and enthusiasts, that was conceived and designed by Gian Carlo Minardi together with brothers Giuseppe and Ferdinando, son Giovanni and brought onto the track alongside Formula Imola.

There are many confirmations, such as the single ticket that gives access to the most exclusive areas of the track beside the Santerno Rover such as the paddock and the pits to see up close the racing cars (F1, F2, F3, Prototypes and Hyperc, Gran Turismo) to meet drivers and engineers and to the terrace to experience as a protagonist the weekend dedicated to international Motorsport and many new developments.

THE HISTORY OF F1 RETURNS TO THE IMOLA TRACK
The key moment of the weekend will be the exhibition on the track of the Formula 1 cars that will return to race around the 4,909 metres of the Imola track. More than 30 F1 racing cars for a 50 year trip in time, starting with the Cooper Maserati T51 of 1959 up to the Toro Rosso STR03 in which Sebastian Vettel won his first grand prix in 2008, passing through the 1972 Tecno, the March 761, the six-wheeled Tyrrel P36, the Theodore TR1, Keke Rosberg’s Fittipaldi F8, James Hunt’s Wolf WR7, the Minardi cars of Alboreto, Martini, Bruni, Baumgartner and Sala, the Ferraris of Alboreto, Alesi, Ickx and Merzario, Lauda, Regazzoni, Mansell and Berger, the McLaren MP4/5 B of Ayrton Senna and Berger, the Williams of Rosberg, Patrese, Senna, Hill and Coulthard, the Arrows of Verstappen, De La Rosa and Cheever, the Dallara-Consworth 190 of Pirro, De Cesaris and Morbidelli.

THE CHAMPIONS OF MOTORPORT AND THE F1 GRAND PRIX DRIVERS CLUB
Over the two days Imola’s paddock and pits will host the most important names of world Motorsport stage including Formula 1 World Champions and winners of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Riccardo Patrese, Pierluigi Martini, Emanuele Pirro, Alessandro Nannini, Giovanni Lavaggi, Carlo Facetti, Howden Ganley, Mario Theissen, Richard Attwood, Daniele Audetto, Derek Daly, Gery Brandstetter, Graham Gauld, Hans Herrmann, Teddy Pilette, David Piper, Jo Ramirez, Axel Schmidt, Marc Surer, Patrick Tambay, Jo Vonlanthen, Mike Wilds and Gabriele Tredozi, ex Technical Director of Team Minardi, will be available to sign autographs.

GATHERING OF MARTINI RACING AND THE LUCCHINI MEMORIAL
The Imola Circuit’s paddock will embrace the history of “Martini Racing” in the first Martini Racing gathering with spectacular cars labelled Lancia and Alfa Romeo, including also the Lancia Beta Montecarlo and Lancia LC1 of the Gino Macaluso Foundation.

The paddock will be enhanced with the gathering of the Lotus Elise S1 and the prototypes of the constructor of Mantua that will return to the track for the 2019 Giorgio Lucchini Memorial organized by the Scuderia Tazio Nuvolari.

HOT LAPS OF IMOLA
As well as taking to the track with your own car for free practices laps (subject to registration on the official website), the Historic Minardi Day will offer you the chance to try the thrill of a lap of the Santerno aboard a fantastic Supercar beside a professional driver, including Lamborghini, Alfa Romeo with more than 500cv and Pagani and Dallara Stradala thanks to the participation of Andrea Levy, president of the Parco Valentino, the automobile salon to be held in Turin from the 19th to the 23rd June. “Gian Carlo’s event is a wonder and I recommend it to everybody. Seeing the F1 cars, of all periods, together at Imola… I’m already getting chills. I saw the Ferraris of Mansell, Alboreto and Prost, and then last year there was the Mercedes with Bottas. It was wonderful to find once more those sounds, those smells.

I will come to the Minardi Day with my cars. With Gian Carlo there is esteem and friendship. When I spoke with him about the setting of this fantastic track I asked him “Why don’t you bring a few F1 cars to the city centre at the Parco Valentino in Turin , in Via Roma? For which, let us take to the track, which is right where the cars must be and then we will go to the city centre for a parade.”

In conjunction with the sessions dedicated to the Formula 1 cars, you will be able to experience the emotion of racing at more than 300 km/h on the Santerno Track thanks to the FA1x2 Seater labelled Coloni Motorpsort equipped with a Gibson Technology V8 engine capable of 550 CV. It is possible to book a lap by filling in the specific form

APPOINTMENT WITH THE AUTOMOBILE BOOKSHOP
After last season’s success there will be once more the appointments with the Libreria dell’Automobile (Automobile Bookshop) at the Ayrton Senna Conference Room (ground floor to the left of the bar – Checco Costa Museum) with the presentations of the extraordinary volumes signed by Pino Allievi, Mario Donnini, Paola Rivolta and Umberto Zappelloni, Giorgio Nada Editore

Programme of the presentations:

SATURDAY 27/04
10.00am – MICHAEL SCHUMACHER IMMAGINI DI UNA VITA / A LIFE IN PICTURES by PINO ALLIEVI (Giorgio Nada Editore)
2.30pm – SCARFIOTTI DALLA FIAT A ROSSFELD (Scarfiotti from Fiat to Rossfield) by PAOLA RIVOLTA (Liberilibri)
4.30pm – FORMULA 1 STORIE DI PICCOLI E GRANDI EROI (Formula 1 Stories of Small and Great Heroes) 1950-1979 Vol. 1 and 2 by MARIO DONNINI (Giorgio Nada Editore)

SUNDAY 28/04
10.00am – FERRARI GLI UOMINI D’ORO DEL CAVALLINO (Ferrari The Golden Men of the Prancing Horse) by UMBERTO ZAPPELLONI (Giorgio Nada Editore)
2.30pm FORMULA 1 STORIE DI PICCOLI E GRANDI EROI (Formula 1 Stories of Small and Great Heroes)1950-1979 Vol. 1 and 2 by MARIO DONNINI (Giorgio Nada Editore)

Guests:
Pino Allievi, editorialist for La Gazzetta dello Sport, opinion writer for RAI and author
Paola Rivolta, author
Mario Donnini, journalist for Autosprint

SAVIO TROPHY
This edition of the Historic Minardi Day will again be enriched by the Gara di Regolarità Classica “Il Trofeo del Savio” (Savio Trophy) that will be valid for the Italian “ACI Storico” National Trophy and the Criterium dell’Appennino of the Scuderia Nettuno.
The event will start from Imola’s Enzo and Dino Ferrari Circuit and will wind its way through the province of Ravenna and follow part of the course of the Savio Circuit that saw Enzo Ferrari win in 1923 as a driver. There will be no lack of beauty with the panorama of the Hills of the Romagna and picturesque townships. The race will finish inside the Imola Circuit for a party that will involve the participants of the Historic Minardi Day.

GAMING AREA AND SIMULATORS
Since this is the Historic Minardi Day, a weekend dedicated to passion and Motorsport and also to looking for enjoyment, you cannot miss the area dedicated to the simulators and E-Sport where you can test yourself by become a racing driver for the day. The new development will be the area dedicated to models and the challenge with radio controlled model cars divided into three categories (F1- F1 Classique –Mini) in collaboration with the Faenza Rc Team. In the paddock, alongside the cars there be extraordinary replicas of cars made with LEGO blocks, such as Ayrton Senna’s 1988 McLaren MP4-4.

TICKETS
You can buy the tickets at the entrance, Saturday 27 / Sunday 28 or for the whole weekend via TicketOne or directly from the circuit. The ticket will give you access to the paddock and pits of the Enzo and Dino Ferrari Circuit and the events present in the circuit, as well as to have laps aboard sports cars driven by professional drivers.

SOCIAL MEDIA & WEBSITE
In order to keep up to date with the many new developments concerning the Fourth Edition of the Historic Minardi Day visit our website and the social channels using the official hashtags #HMD and #HistoricMinardiDay

Here are the addresses:

WEBSITE:
http://minardiday.it/

FACEBOOK:
https://www.facebook.com/minardiday/

TWITTER:
https://twitter.com/minardi09

 

Historic Minardi Day | Is waiting for you at Imola on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 April

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The Historic Minardi Day, the festival created by Gian Caro Minardi and brought on track together with Formula Imola that knew how to rewrite the rules for sporting events by putting fans in the spotlight is coming back.

On Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 April at Imola’s Enzo and Dino Ferrari Circuit the Formula 1 cars that wrote the most important pages of the World Championship will come back onto the track for a journey into the history of International Motorsport together with racing cars from preparatory championships that shaped world champions and with a lot of space for prototypes, Gran Turismo cars and Supercars. In the 2018 edition six Pagani cars warmed the hearts of enthusiasts with a unique parade on the track led by its founder Horacio Pagani, as well as the debut of the Dallara Stradale with a number of hot laps together with the Lamborghinis, Maseratis and Alfa Romeos.

After the success of the previous editions the formula did not change with a single ticket (that can be bought at the circuit’s ticket office or via Ticketone) that will give access to the paddock, the terrace and the pits to see up close the racing cars, the drivers, engineers and the technicians at work on the vehicles as they make them ready to warm up the motors to take to the track. In addition, the ticket will let participants become an essential part of the festival by taking to the track in their own vehicles through Driving Experience (4 sessions on the Saturday and 4 sessions on the Sunday by filling in the form available on the official website), or to take to the track for a lap on board a sports car beside a professional driver and the test themselves on the simulators in the gaming area.

“Last year we managed to cover nearly half a century of sporting competitions through 299 fantastic vehicles from collections around the world, of which 26 from F1, one of which was Pier Luigi Martini’s Tyrrell P34 on its debut together with many Minardis, Ferraris Tecnos, Fondmetals, Dallaras, Fittipaldis, Theodores, Marches and the Cooper T51 only to name a few. There were 110 racing cars from F2 and F3, 2012 GT and GTS cars, 42 vintage cars from the Wheels of history rally and 19 from the Savio Trophy. This year we expect 30 Formula 1 cars with a priceless tribute to Ayrton Senna 25 years after his death and the arrival of some LMP3s,” commented Gian Carlo Minardi who highlighted the strength of the Historic Minardi Day,

“I wanted to bring back to Imola the atmosphere of my first years in F1 with the paddock and the pits open to the fans. All this was lost with the arrival of the computerized passes and today we have an F1 locked up behind the motor homes. We found a polite and passionate public and those who worked on the cars were excited by this formula because they too are overwhelmed by the festive atmosphere,” continued the manager from Faenza.

This year’s edition of the Historic Minardi Day will again be enhanced by the Gara di Regolarità Classica “Savio Trophy” that is valid for the National “ACI Storico” Regolarità National Trophy and the Criterion of the Apennines of the Scuderia Nettuno group. The route will start from Imola’s Enzo and Dino Ferrari Circuit and will wind its way through the province of Ravenna and follow part of the Savio Circuit that saw Enzo Ferrari win the 1923 edition as a driver. The route will pass through the hills of the Romagna and their wonderful towns, with the race concluding inside the Imola circuit.

9.000 people decree the success of the Historic Minardi Day with special guest Valtteri Bottas

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Gian Carlo Minardi, together with Formula Imola and the Bandini Trophy managed to condense into a single weekend more than half a century of sporting competitions through historic racing cars which brought to the track of Imola’s Enzo and Dino Ferrari Circuit an exceptional parade of champions.

In the course of the two days 9,000 enthusiasts flocked the circuit next to the Santerno River to experience as protagonists an International weekend of Motorsport inside the circuit’s pits, paddock and track to meet pilots, technicians and cars from Formula 1, Formula 2, Formula 3, Formula 3000, Gran Turismo and Prototypes which wrote the most emotional pages of the four wheeled sporting history.

There were a number of emotional moments which particularly marked the third edition of the Historic Minardi Day, beginning with the arrival of Mercedes – AMG Petronas Motorsport’s driver Valtteri Bottas for a session with autograph hunters and a walk along pit lane together with Gian Carlo Minardi and Selvatico Estense, the Circuit’s President before taking to the wheel of the World Championship winning Mercedes WO7 to go to the medieval hamlet of Brisighella to receive the Bandini Trophy which this year celebrated its 25th edition. Amongst the prize winners were also ACI President and also FIA Vice President Angelo Sticchi Damiani, Aldo Costa designer of the F1 world championship car and Lewis Hamilton’s track engineer Riccardo Musconi, as well as Nick Heidfeld from Formula E who put on a display with his Mahindra Racing car in the streets of the hamlet.

On the Sunday Aldo Costa excited the crowd by making his debut at the wheel of a Formula 1 car when he took to the track in the Mercedes W07, the first racing car designed by the engineer from Parma who grew up in the ranks of the Minardi Team. The incredible voyage between the past, present and future brought together by Gian Carlo Minardi for its third edition, and which also had the participation of Toro Rosso, ended with the Mahindra Team which is the protagonist of the Formula E World Championship. The day ended with an extraordinary caravan made up of the more than one hundred vintage cars from the 1st Savio Circuit Trophy and the Wheels of History event in the parade lap of the Circuit.

Many personalities made a stop in Faenza for the Golf challenge between VIPs and drivers which began the three days of the event, beginning with Prisca Taruffi, Gabriele Tarquini, Gianni Morbidelli, Pierluigi Martini, Alessandro Nannini, Luca Badoer, Riccardo Patrese, Miguel Angel Guerra, Gabriele Lancieri, Sergio Campana, Emanuele Pirro, Paolo Barilla, Matteo Bobbi, Alex Caffi, Carlo Facetti, Roberto Ravaglia, the young Kart drivers Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Nicholas Pujatti, as well as engineers Gabriele Tredozi, Aldo Costa and Mauro Forghieri who was also the leading player of the presentation of his book “Capire la Formula 1” (Understanding Formula 1. The secrets of the evolution of Formula One from the 1960s to the present day) at the “Ayrton Senna” Conference Room. Also presenting books were journalist Pino Allievi with his “VITE DI CORSA Incontri in pista con piloti, manager, astronauti, cantanti, gente strana” (“LIFE OF RACING, Meetings on the track with drivers, managers, astronauts, singers, strange people), Mario Donnini with his “Formula 1 dal 1950 ad oggi” (Formula 1 from 1950 to today) – “Senna & Imola una storia nella storia” (Senna and Imola, a story in history) – “Mario Andretti Immagini di una vita” (Mario Andretti. Images of a life), as well as a presentation by the Scuderia Tazio Nuvolari of the book “Giorgio Lucchini – una vita per le corse” (Giorgio Lucchini – a life for racing) and driver Siegfried Stohr who brought to life his show “Piloti d’altri tempi” (Drivers of times gone by).

The fans stormed the pits of Alfa Romeo, Lamborhgini and Dallara Stradala who gave enthusiasts a lap of the Imola track, as did the Coloni Motorsport with its two seater racing car. In this setting of inestimable Supercars there was also the caravan of Pagani cars led by founder Horacio Pagani.

Gian Carlo Minardi: “It was an incredible and emotional weekend. I must thank all the participants for the passion which every year they bring to the Historic Minardi Day unique and incredible pieces that give us indescribable emotions and also the enthusiasts for the warmth they show us. It is not every year that we can host at the same time Valtteri Bottas, Aldo Costa at the wheel of a Mercedes F1 car and Formula E. I conclude with a big thank you to all the staff and the ex-Minardi volunteers. All that remains is to get to work on the fourth edition”.

Pier Giovanni Ricci (Director of the Circuit): “The success of the third edition of the Historic Minardi Day confirms how much the Imola Circuit is the perfect stage when we speak of motorsport, great emotions and the unmistakable sound of Formula 1 cars. I wish to thank Gian Carlo Minardi and Francesco Asirelli, the patron of the Bandini Trophy, for having brought us a champion of the calibre of Valtteri Bottas, a passage between past and present which we always experience with great passion. With a look towards the future as was also testified by the presence of the Mahindra car from Formula E, the sector of sustainable mobility on which we are betting with great commitment and conviction. I close with a big thank you to all the Formula Imola staff, the medical service, the track marshals, the security and fire fighting services, who all contribute substantially to the success of the events in a particularly challenging time. We are now ready for the Superbikes”.

The Historic Minardi Day celebrates the Champions of Motorpsort

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Even the third edition of the Historic Minardi Day celebrates the Champions of Motorsport who will be present during the weekend beginning on Friday afternoon with the challenge between drivers and VIPs at Faenza’s ”Le Cicogne” Golf Club. This challenge will also have as protagonist rally driver Prisca Taruffi who is also a great enthusiast and champion of golf. She will also be at the Imola circuit on the Saturday.

During the long weekend in the pits of the Enzo and Dino Ferrari Circuit we await many important names who contributed to the history of the team founded by Gian Carlo Minardi. People such as Pierluigi Martini who ran more than 100 grands prix with the team from Faenza including its debut race in the Brazil Grand Prix in 1985 with the M1985 and Alessandro Nannini, Alfa Romeo’s lead driver who debuted in F1 with the Minardi Team in 1986 and who also defended the colours in the following year before going to Benetton and winning the Japanese Grand Prix and who only last year spoke of the Minardi Day with these words “I love Gian Carlo Minardi. I raced for him for seven years (editor’s note: betweenF2 and F1) I could not be at the first edition but I have already reserved a place for 2018”. Promise kept!

Gianni Morbidelli will also be there on the Friday and Saturday. He came to Faenza in 1991 to drive the Ferrari powered M191 together with Pierluigi Martini and the year after in the M192 with the V12 Lamborghini engine before continuing his career with Arrows and Sauber. He was also Ferrari’s test driver when he substituted Alain Prost in the 1991 Adelaide Grand Prix,

Ferrari’s historic test driver Luca Badoer will be there on Sunday 6th. He drove for the Minardi Team in the 1995 and 1996 seasons and was already been a protagonist in the second edition. “I experienced fantastic years with Gian Carlo and am tied closely to him and to his team. I owe him a lot. It was a great event that not even rain ruined or stopped. I came as a guest but it would be fantastic to come back in racing overalls and helmet” was Luca’s comment last year.

Coming back to join us will also be Miguel Angel Guerra, Gian Carlo Minardi’s fist driver under contract, Tarso Marques, Luis Perez Sala, Roberto Moreno, Giovanni Lavaggi who will take to the track in his LMP1, as well as racing engineers Gabriele Tredozi (who has been present in all the editions with his PS04B) and Aldo Costa who will drive the Mercedes W04 on Sunday.

Together with the Minardi drivers will also be many of Gian Carlo’s friends who have written many important pages of motorsport history, amongst who are Riccardo Patrese 257 grands prix and 1992 Vice World Champion), Emanuele Pirro who last year saw his dream of driving a Minardi come true “I waited 55 years to drive a Minardi and I finally managed to do so. We are celebrating the story of a man and a team who wrote motorsport history, a story of passion, tenacity and challenging difficulties”, said the winner of five 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Gabriele Tarquini (78 F1 GPs as driver for Alfa Romeo, BMW, Honda, and SEAT with which he was the 2009 WTCC World Champion), Andrea Bartolini (2019 GIA GT and GT1 World Champion with the Maserati MC12), Matteo Bobbi (GT World Champion), Alex Caffi, Carlo Facetti whose wins include the 1980 24 Hours of Le Mans at the wheel of the Lancia Monte Carlo and BMW’s flag bearer Roberto Ravaglia who won with the team from Bavaria the 1987 world championship, two European Championships (1986 and 1988), three Italian Championships (1990, 1991 and 1993), a German Championship (1989) and two 24 Hours at Nürburgring (1989 and 1995) and three 24 Hours at Spa-Francorchamps (1985, 1988 and 1994), ex-F1 driver Siegfried Stohr who will be the protagonist at the Briefing Room on Saturday 5th at 5.00pm when he will present the book “Piloti d’altri tempi” (Drivers of other times) and at 11.00am engineer Mauro Forghieri will present the book “Capire la Formula 1. I segreti della sua evoluzione dagli anni ’60 a oggi” (Understanding Formula 1. The secrets of its evolution from the ‘60s until the present day) which will be followed by a number of other appointments.

On Saturday 5th Mercedes – AMG Petronas Motorsport driver Valtteri Bottas will join us at the Circuit for a round of autographs from 2.00pèm to 3.00pm.

On Sunday 6th ex F1 driver Nick Heidfeld, the protagonist of the Formula E Championship, will take to the track in the Mahindra Racing M4Electro.

Ex Scuderia Everest driver Roberto Farneti will bring the wonderful March-Bmw Schnitzer 732 that belonged to Ernesto “Tito” Brambilla onto the track. There will also be room for karting with the very young Andrea Kimi Antonelli from Bologna.

TICKETS HISTORIC MINARDI DAY
It is possible to purchase tickets for single days or for the whole weekend through TicketOne, or directly at the Circuit. The tickets give access to the paddock and the pits of the Enzo and Dino Ferrari International Circuit and all the events in the programme, as well as to be able to take laps of the track aboard a Supercar driven by professional drivers.

SOCIAL MEDIA & WEBSITE
In order to always keep up to date with the numerous new developments tied to the third edition of the Historic Minardi Day visit our website and the social channels by using the official hashtags #HMD e #HistoricMinardiDay
Here are the addresses:

WEBSITE:
http://minardiday.it/

FACEBOOK:
https://www.facebook.com/minardiday/

TWITTER:
https://twitter.com/minardi09

Historic Minardi Day | The third edition enriches its programme dedicated to historic cars

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After the success of last season’s parade of Historic cars through the splendid hills of the Romagna, this year the intensive programme for the third edition of the Historic Minardi Day on the track and at Imola’s Circuit on May 5th and 6th will once more be enriched with a number of events aimed at collectors and enthusiasts of historic cars which will involve , beginning on Saturday May 5th, magnificent medieval hamlets and will conclude with a trip around the track next to the Santerno River on Sunday May 6th with an exclusive parade.

SAVIO CIRCUIT TROPHY – Gara di regolarità (Saturday May 5th and Sunday May 6th, – Imola, Brisighella, Province of Ravenna)
The Historic Minardi Day is enriched even more by the establishment of the 1st Savio Circuit Trophy, a gara di regolarità turistica composed of two trials which will begin at the Imola Circuit and wind its way around the wonderful medieval hamlets of Brisighella and the Province of Ravenna, touching the course that saw Enzo Ferrari win the Circuito del Savio in 1923, before making its way back to the Santerno (Sunday May 6th) for a closing parade with many other historical cars from the “Wheels of History” programme, together with the Association “I Borghi più Belli d’Italia” (Italy’s most beautiful towns) aimed at increasing appreciation of and promoting the great artistic and artistic and cultural heritage of Italy’s smaller centres of excellence.

PARADE OF HISTORIC CARS (Saturday May 5th and Sunday May 6th – Imola, Brisighella, Province of Ravenna)
A suggestive parade, organized together with CRAME, dedicated to vintage cars which will wind their way around the medieval hamlets of the Province of Ravenna and the 1st Savio Circuit Trophy which will be followed by the Gara di regolarità before returning to the Santerno (Sunday May 6th) for the closing parade.

TICKETS
It is possible to purchase tickets for single days or for the whole weekend through TicketOne, or directly at the Circuit. The tickets give access to the paddock and the pits of the Enzo and Dino Ferrari International Circuit and all the events in the programme, as well as to be able to take laps of the track aboard a Supercar driven by professional drivers.

SOCIAL MEDIA & WEBSITE
In order to always keep up to date with the numerous new developments tied to the third edition of the Historic Minardi Day visit our website and the social channels by using the official hashtags #HMD e #HistoricMinardiDay

Here are the addresses:

SITO WEB:
http://minardiday.it/
FACEBOOK:
https://www.facebook.com/minardiday/
TWITTER:
https://twitter.com/minardi09

Historic Minardi Day | The third edition is born between confirmations and new developments

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With the presentation of the 25th edition of the Bandini Trophy, which from this year will be part of the rich programme of the Historic Minardi Day, the countdown has begun for the third edition of the event to be held on May 4th – 6th at Imola’s Enzo and Dino Ferrari International Circuit which since 2016 has given passion back to thousands of fans of Formula 1 and motorsport.

There are many new developments that mark the whole international motoring weekend, but the DNA that for the last two years rewarded the event dreamed up by Gian Carlo Minardi and which won the 2017 Autosprint Magazine’s Golden Helmet award for the Best Motorsport event of the year, remains unchanged. Cars that wrote the most important and exciting pages of motorsport for a span of more than forty years, together with their leading players, are still the focal point for enthusiasts who will have the chance once more to have access to the paddock and the pits of the Imola Circuit to admire them up close and to meet the drivers and technicians.

CARS FROM FORMULA 1, F2, GP2, F300, F3 and GT on the track
The cars created by Gian Carlo Minardi and brought onto the track in the F1 world championship from 1985 to 2005 will “challenge each other” on the track with other racing cars that created the legend of the Circus, and which shaped champions, such as Mercedes, Ferrari, Benetton-Alfa Romeo, Arrows, Tecno, Dallara, Fondmetal, Surtees, Tyrrel P34, Theodore and Fittipaldi Automotive, as well as cars from F2, GP2, F3000 e F3, Formula Italia and Abarth. The intense weekend of activities will take to the track beginning at 9.00am on Saturday May 5th and the engines will run until Sunday May 6th with a parade of the vintage cars which will include those that take part in the Savio Circuit Trophy and the Wheels of History events, as well as the programme of appointments, get-togethers and encounters for enthusiasts of vintage cars, together with the Association “I Borghi più Belli d’Italia” (Italy’s most beautiful towns).

The 2013 WO4 designed by Aldo Costa will take to the track from the Mercedes – AMG Petronas Motorsport pit. This was the car that began the team’s extraordinary winning streak of four Constructors’ titles and just as many Drivers’ titles, three of which were won by Lewis Hamilton (2014-2015-2017) and Nico Rosberg in 2016. At the wheel will be Aldo Costa himself, the engineer from Parma on his debut at the wheel of an F1 car who grew up in the ranks of the Minardi Team together with another engineer, Gabriele Tredozi, who will drive the Minardi PS04B which he designed. Completing the presence of Mercedes–AMG Petronas Motorsport on the Saturday will also be driver Valtteri Bottas for a session signing autographs before going to Faenza’s Piazza del Popolo (at 4.15pm) before driving the W07 to Brisighella (at 5.15pm) to be awarded Lorenzo Bandini Trophy in a ceremony which will begin at 6.00pm at the Spada Amphitheatre.

The Gran Turismo cars and Prototypes with the Alfa Romeo, Lotus, Ferrari, Maserati, Lavaggi and Lucchini badges are not to be missed and they too will put on a show for the whole weekend in a number of sessions. The Scuderia Tazio Nuvolari will honour the talent of Giorgio Lucchini by bringing to the Circuit and onto the track many of the 150 sporting cars created by the constructor from Mantua that won 750 races, 2 world titles, as well as 34 track and 4 uphill titles and there will also be a display. At noon on Saturday Gianni Tomazzoni’s book “Giorgio Lucchini, una vita per le corse” (Giorgio Lucchini, a life for racing) will be launched at the “Ayrton Senna Conference Room” and will be the subject of many workshops during the entire weekend.

Since it is the Historic Minardi Day, an event for seekers of fun and after last year’s success, the “Come onto the track” formula will make its return. Participants will have the chance to take some laps of the circuit aboard a Supercar driven by professional drivers, as well as testing themselves in a virtual challenge on the driving simulators.

In addition, inside the pits there will be a display with a trip around the world of Formula 1 and technology “Past – Present – Future” with displays of racing cars labelled Minardi and Toro Rosso and Simulators which in recent years has changed how the cars are designed and developed following the abolition of track tests.

Golf tournament (Faenza – Friday May 4th)
VIPS and drivers will begin the motoring weekend when they fight out a Louisiana Golf challenge which is open to all participants in the Historic Minardi Day and within a frame of the public (entry is free) beginning at 2.30pm on Friday May 4th at Faenza’s Le Cicogne Golf Club.

LORENZO BANDINI TROPHY (Saturday May 5th – Brisighella)
Finn driver Valtteri Bottas of reigning world champion team “Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport” will be the driver awarded at Brisighella on the afternoon of Saturday May 5th in the 2018 edition of the trophy dedicated to the Ferrari driver who passed away in 1967 which this year reaches its 25th edition and whose ceremony will begin at 6.00pm. A special and exclusive trophy will be awarded to ACI President and FIA Vice President Angelo Sticchi Damiani whose prestigious presence combines perfectly Italian Motorsport with the international image of the weekend’s events which highlight Motor Valley.
Among the winners are Aldo Costa the engineer who designed the F1 World Champion car and Riccardo Mosconi, track engineer for champion driver Lewis Hamilton’s who complete Mercedes–AMG Petronas Motorsport’s formidable presence which, for the joy of the many enthusiasts, will make available two F1 racing cars, the 2013 W04 and the 2016 W07.

TICKETS
It is possible to purchase tickets for single days or for the whole weekend through TicketOne, or directly at the Circuit. The tickets give access to the paddock and the pits of the Enzo and Dino Ferrari International Circuit and all the events in the programme, as well as to be able to take laps of the track aboard a Supercar driven by professional drivers.

SOCIAL MEDIA & WEBSITE
In order to always keep up to date with the numerous new developments tied to the third edition of the Historic Minardi Day visit our website and the social channels by using the official hashtags #HMD e #HistoricMinardiDay

Here are the addresses:

WEBSITE:
http://minardiday.it/

FACEBOOK:
https://www.facebook.com/minardiday/

TWITTER:
https://twitter.com/minardi09

The Historic Minardi Day awarded Autosprint magazine’s Golden Helmet

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“I want to thank all the collectors, drivers, enthusiasts, sponsors and volunteers for the affection and warmth they showed me and for having transformed the Historic Minardi Day from a project into a reality by demonstrating that they are stronger than bad weather. One of our aims was to bring the families back to the circuit and to bring them closer to what I still consider the most beautiful of sports. The aim was achieved in full.

The Golden Helmet repays all the efforts made to bring these fantastic cars back to the track which otherwise would be difficult to see and to give all the fans the chance to admire them in action, as well as representing a vital stimulus in preparation for the next edition which is developing together with Formula Imola. This Golden Helmet is dedicated to all of you,” commented an enthusiastic Gian Carlo Minardi.

At two years from its birth the Historic Minardi Day, the event dedicated to drivers, fans, collectors and enthusiasts that want to experience once more the emotions tied to Formula 1 and the team from Faenza founded by Gian Carlo Minardi was awarded the Autosprint Golden Helmet as the Best Motor Sport Event of the year.

Autosprint’s Golden Helmets reached their 52nd edition and in more than a half century the magazine rewarded motor sport’s greatest champions. The 2017 edition also celebrated the biggest stars on four wheels, today’s and from the past.

The Historic Minardi Day had the great task giving back the world of Formula 1 and the competitions to all the enthusiasts by bringing them back to the heart of the circuit to admire the cars and protagonists that made motor sport history. Within the Imola circuit more than 70 racing cars from the world championship and many other GT cars, from lower formulas and classic cars such as Alfa Romeo came back to excite the feast of motors with their roar.

The 2017 edition was marked by the absolute debut, at 70 years of age, of Gian Carlo Minardi at the wheel of one of his “babies”, the Minardi M192 with a Lamborghini engine when he finished a full lap accompanied by warm cheers.

“On that occasion I think I set the new Imola track record for the slowest lap with a racing car,” remembered a smiling Gian Carlo Minardi, “I must once again thank my friend Frits for having made it possible, from the car to the helmet. It was a beautiful and emotional gift. At 70 years of age a dream came true for me which I had held back for too long. The organizational machine for the third edition of the Historic Minardi day is already at work and we expect to see you on May, 4, 5 and 6, 2018. Naturally at Imola’s Enzo and Dino Ferrari circuit with even more new developments,” concluded the manager from Faenza.

5000 enthusiasts at the Imola Circuit formalize the success of the second edition of the Historic Minardi Day

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It was an edition of the Historic Minardi Day that showed itself stronger than the weather. Not even the rain managed to dampen the enthusiasm of the five thousand passionate fans that went to Imola’s Enzo and Dino Ferrari Circuit to live a full weekend dedicated to motorsport and the team from Faenza.

On Saturday and Sunday more than twenty five Formula 1 racing cars which included not only historic Minardi cars but also Ferrari, Williams, Dallara, Fondmetal and about thirty F2, F3 and GT cars took turns at racing around the track that was the stage for more than forty years of racing history. The paddock and the pits were invaded by passionate fans from all around Italy together with Team founder Gian Carlo Minardi and racing drivers who wrote important pages of motorsport history such as Pierluigi Martini, Luca Badoer, Gaston Mazzacane, Roberto Moreno, Giovanni Lavaggi, Alessandro Nannini, Emanuele Pirro, Andrea Montermini, Gabriele Tarquini, Nicola Larini and Riccardo Patrese who were also protagonists of the Golf match on Friday that was the prologue to the weekend.

A weekend of motorsport, music and show business with the presence ontrack of the Roman singer songwriter Max Gazzè who was the protagonist of the Live Music Show on Saturday evening who shared with Gian Carlo Minardi one of the event’s most emotional moments at the wheel of a Lamborghini powered M192. At 11.30am the manager from Faenza made his debut at the wheel of a Minardi racing car owned by Dutch collector Fritz Van Eerd and completed a lap at low speed of the whole Imola circuit accompanied by the warm applause.

“I think I made an Imola track record with the slowest ever lap by car,” joked Gian Carlo Minardi as soon as he left the car, “I must thank my friend Fritz who made everything available for me from the car to the helmet, It was a beautiful and emotional gift. At 70 years of age and with slicks on a wet track I realized a dream that I had delayed for too long. I must thank all the collectors and drivers for all the affection and warmth they showed, together with that of the fans. One aim of the Historic Minardi Day was to bring families back to the track and to bring them closer to what for me is the most beautiful sport. The aim was achieved in spite of the bad weather and rain.”

“Thanks too to the presence of my friend Max Gazzè who despite the terrible weather conditions entertained us with great music on Saturday evening and who shared the atmosphere of the pits for the whole weekend.”

“Of all my concerts, I will always remember Gian Carlo Minardi’s congeniality who, in a surreal ambiance, moved to the rhythm of the music under an umbrella,” was the Roman singer songwriter’s comment.

“Despite the weather not helping the event there were really many enthusiasts who took part in the second Historic Minardi Day. It’s a sign that when we speak about Formula 1, whether historical or current, the Imola circuit brings back memories that always live in the minds and the hearts of those who love this sport. I want to thank the Minardi family for having made us live these emotions and I hope that this event will become even more an irrevocable appointment on the calendar of the Enzo and Dino Ferrari circuit,” said Pier Giovanni Ricci (Circuit Director).

There were positive reactions from the protagonists “I waited 55 years to drive a Minardi and I finally managed to do it. We are celebrating the story of a man and a team that wrote pages of motorsport history, a history of passion, tenacity and challenging difficulties. It was an incredible weekend. I hope it becomes a permanent appointment in the future,” said an enthusiastic Emanuele Pirro.

After 17 years Gaston Mazzacane, a protagonist of the 2000 season together with Marc Genè once more took to the wheel of a Minardi M02. “It was a dream to come back to Imola and drive a Formula 1 car. I had the same emotions as then. Congratulations to the Minardi family. It was a sensational event. The quality and numbers of cars were incredible,” said the Argentinean driver.

“I love Gian Carlo Minardi. I raced for him seven years,” said an unmistakeable and sarcastic Alessandro Nannini who was also the protagonist of the Golf match at Faenza’s Le Cicogne Golf Club. “Last year I could not be here but I have already booked a place for the 2018 edition,” concluded the ace from Siena.

“With Gian Carlo Minardi I experienced fantastic years and I am tied to him and the team in a special way. I owe him a lot. It was a great event which not even the rain ruined or stopped. I came as a guest but next year it would be fantastic to come back in a driving suit and helmet,” declared Luca Badoer who is now committed to following his son in his first steps in kart racing.

The Historic Minardi Day also invaded the hills and medieval towns surrounding Imola and Faenza with a caravan of over thirty historic road cars in the Minardi Classic.

Historic Minardi Day | Ten good reasons to come to Imola

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Is your passion Formula 1 and motorsport? Have you always dreamed of touching the racing cars and meeting your favourites? Do you want to pass a whole weekend under the sign of motors, music and spectacle?
The answer is the Historic Minardi Day, the event dedicated to motors and the team from Faenza scheduled for Saturday May 6th and Sunday May 7th at Imola’s Enzo and Dino Ferrari Circuit. We have found at least ten good reasons…

1) Fantastic racing cars once more thundering around the Imola

Formula 1 of the era of turbos, V10s and V12s have come back to thunder around the Imola circuit. More than 25 fantastic world championship racing cars for a forty year trip into the history of Formula 1, together with 30 historic F2 and F3 cars and GT racers await you at the pits and on the track beginning at 9.00am on Saturday until 6.30pm Sunday (price of the tickets is 12€ on TicketOne – free for children under 12). Engineers and drivers will be waiting for you at the paddock and the pits together with their racing cars.

2) “One on one” with drivers, engineers and show business personalities
Walking around the paddock of the circuit and entering the pits you will have the chance to meet team owner Gian Carlo Minardi together with drivers and engineers that wrote important pages of the history of the team from Faenza and motorsport such as Alessandro Nannini, Pierluigi Martini, Paolo Barilla, Luca Badoer, Tarso Marques, Jarno Trulli, Gaston Mazzacane, Gabriele Tarquini, Emanuele Pirro, Riccardo Patrese, Andrea Montermini and Giorgio Pantano. Simone Resta, Chief designer for Ferrari, will not be missing together with Gabriele Tredozi and show business personalities such as singer-driver Max Gazzè.

3) Motors and Music will come together at Imola in the Live Music Show with Max Gazzè.

Saturday evening will be under the sign of music with Max Gazzè, who has just completed a successful concert tour. In the confines of the paddock the singer will give us a show with his most important successes on the stage of the Live Music Show. Tickets are on sale on TicketOne together with two day tickets to experience the whole weekend under the sign of motors and music.

4)Formula 1 at arm’s reach for a unique trip in time with Formula 1

The trip will begin with Manuel Fangio’s 1957 Maserati 250 F and finish with the 2005 Minardi passing through Alessandro Nannini’s M186, the M189, the Lamborghini powered M192, the M198, Marc Gené and Gaston Mazzacane’s M01 and Fernando Alonso’s M01. Also present will be Scuderia Ferrari which this year celebrates the 70th anniversary of its foundation, the world championship winning Williams, Alesi and Berger’s Benetton, as well as Dallara, Fondmetal, Osella and Alfa Romeo and many other unique models. You will be able to see these fantastic cars in their basic components and leaving the pits before thundering around the Imola track.

5)Become a protagonist of the photographic competition and do a lap of the circuit

Beginning at 9.00am on Saturday 6th until noon Sunday 7th all the enthusiasts will be able to take part in the photographic competition. It will be enough to publish photos on your Instagram profile using the #MinardiDay hashtag. The winning photographer will have the privilege of doing a lap of the Imola track at the side of a professional driver.

6)Visit the exhibition “Imola Formula 1 1963-2006: History continues”

The exhibition set up inside the circuit’s “Checco Costa” Museum will be enriched with numerous racing cars built by Gian Carlo Minardi, for a trip amongst the most important and beautiful racing cars of the Formula 1 world championship that races around Imola.

7)Festival of Golf with many sporting and other personalities

As a prologue to the event on Friday May 5th there will be a Festival of Golf beginning at 2.00pm at Faenza’s “Le Cicogne” Golf Club with drivers, sporting personalities and VIPs who will play each other in front of all the enthusiasts who can enter the club free of charge.

8) Space for historical classic and vintage cars

There will be no lack of fantastic historical road cars within the circuit, such as the Alfa Romeo 33 of the 1970s and many other cars from the Milanese car maker which will also wind their way around the local medieval townships.

9)  Challenge your friends on the simulators.

Do you conider yourself a real World Champion? Then you cannot back off from challenging your friends at the wheel of the GT Challenge and F1 simulators in the gaming area within the paddock.

10)The ease of reaching Imola.

Reaching Imola’s Enzo and Dino Ferrari circuit is not like scaling mount Everest! It is easy to reach by train (the station is 3.5km from the circuit) or by car (the IMOLA exit of the A14 autostrada/freeway)

A track that is part of Motorsport History, a weekend not to be missed and to live together with all ther family and friends.

Historic Minardi Day 2017 | Minardi “We have done something new to bring the fans closer.”

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A week before the Historic Minardi Day at Imola’s Enzo and Dino Ferrari Circuit (Saturday May 6th and Sunday May 7th) we caught up with the event’s creator, Gian Carlo Minardi.

“We studied the Historic Minardi Day of bringing the enthusiasts closer to the world of motor sport. Only their support will tell us if we have taken the right road,” said the manager from Faenza, “ Our DNA is the open wheels and we have had a great response with many racing cars from the 70s-80s- and 90s which will take to the track together with other vehicles, but it will be interesting to enter the pits to personally touch the sport meeting drivers, engineers and personalities that have written the most important pages of the world championship,” continued Minardi.

A weekend for the whole family “We have created a varied programme suitable for all ages. Motors, and also music thanks to our friends Max Gazzè who will be one of the protagonists on stage with the Live Music Show.” Tickets are on sale at the circuit and TicketOne.it.

As well as the Formula 1 racing cars there will also be classic and vintage cars “We will bring to the track spectacular cars with incredible sporting achievements such as the Alfa Romeo 33 of the 1970s. There will be two days of sport in the open air.”

Gian Carlo minardi and the Minardi Team will be waiting for you at Imola beginning at 9.00am on Saturday May 6th until 6.30pm on Sunday May 7th.

Historic Minardi Day | Motors and Music meet at Imola

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 “I planned the Historic Minardi Day on the format I would like to see in Formula 1. An “open door” F1 in direct contact with the public. At Imola all the enthusiasts and fans will be able to see and touch the racing cars, meet the drivers and their favourites but above all once again hear the historic sounds of the powerful Formula 1 cars. During the press conference for the Australian Grand Prix Chris Horner – Red Bull’s team principal– said that the most beautiful sound of the entire weekend in Melbourne came from a twelve year old car, a Minardi PS05 despite the fact that at the time it was not competitive. At Imola it will be possible to hear them once more.”

Gian Carlo Minardi.

The second edition of the Historic Minardi Day is coming together for the weekend of May 7 and 7 at Imola’s Dino and Enzo Ferrari Circuit. It is an event dedicated to drivers, fans, collectors and enthusiasts that want to relive the emotions tied to the history of Formula 1 and the team from Faenza founded by Gian Carlo Minardi.

After the success of last year’s first edition the Historic Minardi Day confirms the formula of having the paddock and boxes open to the fans that will be able to touch the cars and to meet the drivers and technicians. The gates of the Imola circuit will open and the motors of the powerful and historic F1, F2, F3 and GT cars will come alive beginning at 9.00am on Saturday May 6th and everything will close only at 6.30pm on Sunday 7th.

The cars on the track: F1, F2, F3 and GT
A forty year trip in time, thanks to a starting grid made up of more than twenty five Formula1 racing cars which will come back to roar around the 4.909 m of the track next to Imola’s Santerno River eleven years after Michael Schumacher’s win at the wheel of a Ferrari F248 F1. It will begin with Manuel Fangio’s Maserati 250F in 1957 up to the 2005 Minardi passing through the Minardi M1986 – protagonist of the 1986 F1 with Alessandro Nannini and Adrian Campos driving – the M189 with which Martini-Sala won 6 points in 1982, the Minardi M192with the Lamborghini motor of the pair Martini-Fittipaldi, the M198 of Tuero and Nakana, the 2000 Mo1 of Marc Genè and Gaston Mazzacane  and the Mo1 with which Fernando Alonso made his debut in the world championship.

Ferrari will not be missing with the 212B3 and 312B4 “snow sweeper” (1973), Clay Regazzoni’s 1974 Ferrari 314B4, the March 761, the 1972 Tecno F1, James Hunt’s 1979 Wolf WR7 and his historic rival Nikki Lauda, the 1980 world championship Williams FW07, the Alfa Romeo powered 1981 Osella FA1 and the Alfa Romeo 184 T. The 1990s will be represented by, amongst others, Jean Alesi and Gerard Berger’s B197 Benetton and the Fondmetal F1 and  Dallara 190.

Nearly thirty cars from Formula 2 and Formula 3 from the most important constructors with the Minardi 1982 F2 acting as host. On track there will be cars from the 60s, 70s and 80s such as the March-BMW, the Ralt F3000, the Tecno, Lola and Dallara. There are important numbers and will be joined by historic GT cars amongst which are the Alfa Romeo 33 TT3, Ferrari Berlinetta 250, Porsche Macan Turbo, Lotus and Dome Le Mans.

“I wish to thank all the collectors and drivers who accepted to participate actively in this feast of sport, in particular Paul and Graham North from Britain and Dutchman Frits Van Eerd who this year will be amongst the protagonists of the Le Mans 24 hour race with an LMP2 together with Rubens Barrichello and Jan Lammer. The Historic Minardi Day will be the opportunity to embrace all our friends from the Fan Clubs in Italy and around the world.”
Gian Carlo Minardi

Drivers and Technicians in the paddock

Fans will have the opportunity to meet drivers that wrote important pages of motor sport history and that of the team from Faenza such as Miguel Angel Guerra, Pierluigi Martini and Paolo Barilla who won the Le Mans 24 hours, Alessandro Nannini, Adrian Campos, Luis Perez Sala, Roberto Moreno, Luca Badoer, Tarso Marques, Jarno Trulli, Gaston Mazzacane, together with five times Le Mans winner Emanuele Pirro, Riccardo Patrese  the 1992 Vice world champion with Williams, Andrea Montermini and the engineers Garbiele Tredozi who joined the team in 1988 and was its technical director from 2001 – 2005 and Aldo Costa who left Faenza to go to Brackley to the world championship winning Mercedes with Hamilton and Rosberg.

“We have created a varied programme. Not only will there be lots of action on the track with the Formula 1, Formula 2, Formula 3 and  GT cars but also the Live Music Show and the Minardi Classic which will visit some of the most beautiful medieval towns in the Romagna around Imola which will end at the Imola circuit, as well as a photographic competition.”
Gian Carlo Minardi

When the engines are turned off on Saturday May 6 the spotlights will come on in the paddock for the Live Music Show (beginning at 9.00pm) which will see on the Minardi Live Stage Dedo and the Megaphones and the exceptional guest star will be Max Gazzè, a great artist and excellent driver. Tickets are already one sale at the circuit and TicketOne together with the two day passes.

Together with C.R.A.M.E. (the Historic Auto and motor Club of Romagna), whose president Bruno Brusa owns a GM75 Minardi, on the day of Saturday May 6 more than 40 classic and vintage road cars such as the Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Gran Sport Spider Zagato will wind around the wonderful local hills stopping at magnificent medieval towns and cities of art before making their entrance in the Imola circuit in the late afternoon. The vehicles of the Minardi Classic will remain on show in the paddock for the rest of the event.

The prologue to the event will occur on Friday May 5 with the feast of Golf which begins at 2.00pm at Faenza’s “Le Cicogne” Golf course with drivers, sporting personalities and VIPs who will take part in a challenge that all enthusiasts will be able to witness at the club. Entry is free.

There is also room for photography. Beginning at 9.00am on Saturday 6 until noon on Sunday May 7 all the enthusiasts will be able to take part in a photo competition. Entries went will be examined by a judging panel led by Angelo Orsi, the famous reporter of the Formula 1 world championship. The panel’s decision will be final. The author of the winning photo will have the privilege of experiencing a lap of the Imola circuit at the side of a professional driver.

On the occasion, the display “Imola Formula 1 1963-2006: History continues” set up within the circuit’s “Checco Costa” museum will be enriched by many cars constructed by Gian Carlo Minardi for a trip through the most beautiful and important racing cars of the formula 1 world championship that raced around  the Imola circuit.

There will be no lack of street food with food vans where the public will be able to sample the flavours of the famed cuisine of the Romagna region and also a corner dedicated to a gaming area with challenges on simulators.

Historic Minardi Day 2017 | Many additions in the second edition of the Historic Minardi Day which will double the attraction at the Imola Circuit

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On Saturday May 6th and Sunday May 7th Imola’s Enzo and Dino Ferrari Circuit will host the second edition of the Historic Minardi Day. The event is dedicated to drivers, fans, collectors and enthusiasts who want to relive the emotions tied to the history of Formula 1 and the Team from Faenza founded by Gian Carlo Minardi.

Eleven years after Michael Schumacher’s last Grand Prix win with Ferrari, the 4,909m of the track beside the Santerno River will host the powerful racing cars of the team from Faenza that from 1985 to 2005 rode the scene of Formula 1, together with other historic vehicles of the World Championship as well as F2, F3 and GT racing. The enthusiasts will have the opportunity to meet in the boxes and the paddock (with free entry) the engineers and drivers that lived Formula 1 history (last year 27 drivers were present). There will also be other guests such as Italian rock/pop star, Max Gazzè, an enthusiast and himself a driver who in 2004 drove a Minardi F1 car.

The gates of the Imola Circuit will open at 9.00am and the motors of the historic F1, F2, F3 and GT cars will go on track on Saturday May 6th and will only stop on 6.30pm on Sunday May 7th. After last year’s success the Historic Minardi Day will repeat its formula of opening the boxes and paddock to all the enthusiasts who will be able to touch the cars that made motor sport history, but the weekend will not lack other activities.

Historic Minardi Day – New events for 2017

The Golf Game – On Friday May 5th beginning at 2.00pm at Faenza’s “Le Cicogne” Golf Course drivers that wrote some of the most important pages of Formula 1 History, great sportsmen and VIPs will challenge each other in front of enthusiasts who will have free access into the club to meet their favourites.

Minardi Classic – In collaboration with the Club Romagnolo Auto e Moto d’Epoca (the regional Historic Car Club) – C.R.A.M.E. whose president Bruno Brusa owns a GM75 Minardi, historic road sports cars of the 1950s – 1970s will make a tour that will wind around more than 70 kilometres of the local hills with stops in magnificent medieval towns and cities of Art. The vehicles will then be on display within the circuit paddock area during the rest of the weekend.

Live Music Show – On the evening of May 6th in the Paddock after the motor are turned off for the day the spotlights will come on the Live Music Show which will see on the Minardi Live Stage Dedo & The Megaphones and an exceptional Guest Star, Max Gazzè a friend who is not only a great artist, but also an excellent driver.

A Photographic “competition” will be open to all enthusiasts who take part in the Historic Minardi Day beginning at 9.00am Saturday 6th until noon Sunday 7th.

Any type of photographic device can be used and it will be the task of each fan to post it in the format to be announced. The photos will be judged by a committee headed by famous Formula 1 sport photographer Andrea Orsi. The committee’s decision will be final.

Simulator zone – This year will again see enthusiasts challenge each other at the wheel of simulators located in the Paddock area and so become a driver for a day.

IMOLA FORMULA 1 1963-2006: LA STORIA CONTINUA HISTORY CONTINUES
The “Checco Costa” Museum within the Imola Circuit will host a magnificent display of the history of Formula 1 at Imola. Within its confines will be some of the most beautiful and important racing cars of the Formula 1 World Championship that raced around the circuit which will take fans on a trip through history.

Scuderia Ferrari Clubs – worldwide Ferrari passion will not be lacking within the paddock area of Imola’s Enzo and Dino Ferrari Circuit thanks to the participation of the Scuderia Ferrari Clubs.

Street Food – There will be no lack of food trucks offering the flavours of the famous cuisine of the Romagna.

Tickets  – Tickets are available directly at the circuit or can be bought online on TicketOne.it. To live the whole weekend of  Saturday May 6th and Sunday May 7th  as a protagonist of the Historic Minardi Day and also to attend the Saturday evening concert, two day tickets are also available. Access is free on Friday May 5th from 2.00pm until 7.00pm at Faenza’s “Le Cicogne” Golf Club.

Entries are open for laps of the circuit
Registration is now open for laps of the circuit by owners of historic F1, F2 e F3 and GT cars and entry to the Minardi Classic Tour is reserved for classic and vintage road cars. All the information is available on the web site www.minardiday.it

Gian Carlo Minardi “The Historic Minardi Day is ready to grow while keeping its roots firmly planted in the ground. As we saw last year cars, motorsport and enthusiasts will be the heart and soul of the two days at Imola’s Circuit. I am happy to have with us the cars and such prestigious clubs as C.R.A.M.E. which will give further vitality to the Minardi Classic. Last year I had great pleasure seeing the paddock and boxes invaded by young people and families. In addition to doubling the number of days we have enriched the programmes with a number of initiatives amongst which is the Live Music Show, as well as the return of the driving simulators.”