Alexandria – It will be Alessandria and Lake Maggiore, Villa Taranto in Verbania, the natural settings of 32th Grand Prix Bordino 2024 edition, an event organized annually by the Veteran Car Club Bordino of Alessandria, which this year will take place on Friday 7th, Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th June. An event that brings together, as always, a good number of enthusiasts and collectors of prestigious vintage cars, coming from various Italian and foreign locations: this year there will be around seventy cars, all protagonists of the history of motoring from 1930 to 1967 and which they played an important role in the most important events of the time, from the Mille Miglia to the Targa Florio to the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The Bordino Grand Prix is part of “ASI Circuito Tricolore”, which promotes knowledge and valorisation of the territories to be traveled on board historic cars and has obtained the patronage of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, the Ministry of Culture, the ANCI National Association of Italian Municipalitiesof the City of Alexandria.
“ASI Circuito Tricolore” offers the public and participants a combination of the excellences of made in Italy which includes landscape and architectural beauties, food and wine, cultural offerings, good living in ideal association with the timeless charm of historic vehicles.
The Bordino Grand Prix is still “Classic & Accessible”, an initiative dedicated to enthusiasts with disabilities to allow them to approach historical motorsport without barriers, thanks to the help provided by a Lancia Fulvia coupé Montecarlo with specially adapted driving controls (manual accelerator and service brake, automatic clutch); Stefano Motto and Gabriele Lanza, champion at the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games, will be on board and will participate in the Bordino Grand Prix. para ice hockeywho will bring their enthusiasm and the desire to live, demonstrating how much can be done to counteract adverse destinies that one can sometimes encounter in the course of existence.
The program.
On Friday 7 June, the day of departure, Alessandria will transform into one “city of times gone by”, complete with vintage cars and costumes, without forgetting some themed animations; from 12 o’clock in Piazzetta della Lega and in the surrounding streets it will be possible to admire up close the cars protagonists of the three days of motorsport. The departure is scheduled for 4pm: after crossing Corso Roma, the cars from Piazza Garibaldi will go towards a wine cellar in Gattinara; the arrival of the day is expected in the evening in Stresa, a well-known lakeside tourist resort.
On Saturday 8 June, the cars with the crews wearing period costumes will travel the streets of Stresa, Pallanza, Villa Taranto and those along Lake Mergozzo, Lake Orta and of course Lake Maggiore; in the evening the over 150 enthusiasts registered for the event will embark on a cruise on the lake with landing on Isola Bella, where a dinner will await them which they will enjoy surrounded by a fascinating sunset.
On Sunday 9 June, the participants will finally return to Alessandria, but the route includes a stop at a rice mill in the Casale area; the event will find its conclusion in Spinetta Marengo.
But the Bordino Grand Prix will not only be about historic cars: participants will, in fact, wear costumes that recall the historical period of the car they will present. Furthermore, the Sweet Dolls show is scheduled, Burlesque performers and with themed clothes and movements (petticoat, bows, flowers, pin up poses, smiles, retro vintage dances) will involve the public at the departure from the Lega square.
Finally, an experimental project: a small but significant contribution to the protection of the environment, in which some historic cars will be involved which this year will fill up with bio-fuel, obtained through the process of biological carbon fixation and produced from organic matter following then a process of controlled chemical reactions in the factory.
Further information, as well as many images, are available at www.pbordino.com. (Photo Maurizio Mazzino).
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