It started off on the right foot Italian Super Climb Championship For Alessandro Picchi of Speed Motor, first in the Turbo Cup 1 class of the Racing Start Cup at the 66th edition of the hill climb Mount Erice.
The 22-year-old driver from Gubbio, at the wheel of the Seat Ibiza Sc Trophy, was third at the end of race 1, 1″43 and just 9 hundredths from the homologous cars of Pietro Ragusa and Cristian Piccin, after having covered the 5730 meters of the track in 3’58”65. In race 2, here is the redemption: 3’57”07, therefore over a second and a half less, 89 hundredths of an advantage over Piccin and a compromised outcome for Ragusa, who ended up at the bottom of the lot with a very high time due to a mechanical problem , so the aggregate of 7’55”72 allowed Picchi to prevail over Piccin by 8 tenths.
The satisfaction of Picchi, who sportingly admits that he was also lucky: “I can only say that everything was shot well – he claims – especially since I found myself having to make up ground from a third position; it’s clear then that the unexpected event in Ragusa gave me a hand. Certainly, considering the fact that it was the “first time” with this car and that I had never raced in Erice, whose route is both beautiful and tough, it couldn’t have gone any better.”.
