Published on: 20/04/2017 Updated on: 20/02/2025
From the Autodromo di Monza to the Circuito delle Madonie. Two mythical places for motorsport fans, because both have made the history of automobile racing. It is no coincidence that the former, built in 1922 is one of the oldest racetracks in the world, the third exactly after those of Brooklands and Indianapolis, and the Targa Florio, which has used three types of track at the Circuito delle Madonie (the "Long," the "Medium" and the "Small," the best known on which the last editions were held), is the oldest race in the world with the first edition dated 1906. The idea of creating a sort of twinning between these two mythical places of passion, came to the driver-journalist from Monza Eugenio Mosca, about to leave for the 101st edition of the Sicilian classic, who precisely on his home circuit began racing in the historic Formula 875 Monza, the propaedeutic category created by SIAS that in the course of more than twenty years of activity has helped to raise several champions then rose to the top of motor racing, including the unforgettable Michele Alboreto. Eugenio Mosca, in his third participation in the Targa Florio, specifically the "Classic" which is run with the Regularity formula, started today from the Monza High Speed Ring, another legendary place for fans, at the wheel of a 1954 Porsche 356 Pre A which he will share with Simone Tacconi, wearing the colors of a well-known leading car care company, main sponsor of the race organized by ACI, and of Automobilismo d'Epoca magazine. In fact, on the occasion Eugenio Mosca will once again take on the role of envoy from the cockpit, to tell the fans, both readers of the specialized magazine and the web, the live emotions of the fascinating Sicilian race, not only from the sporting point of view but also with regard to the warmth of the public and the tourist aspect immortalizing the beauty of some of the most striking places in Sicily. Emotions that began on Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at 1 p.m., when Mosca started the Porsche 356 Pre A, fielded by the Monza Racing-BergamoHistoric Gran Prix stable, and went up as the German engine revs went up as it drove along the Monza causeway. Emotions that will continue during the journey to Palermo, which the Lombardy crew will reach directly with the car as they used to do in the old days, carrying the baton of the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza firmly imprinted on the bodywork of the German coupe, and they will certainly rise to the top when they take off at 4 p.m. on Thursday afternoon from the central Piazza Verdi between two wings of the crowd, where they will return on Sunday for the finish after more than 500 km of racing.
