Automobili Lamborghini hosts the “Giro Polo Storico” for worldwide clients and their basic Lamborghinis, in a tour from 14 to 17 September crossing a few of northern Italy’s most distinctive areas. As a part of celebrations marking its sixtieth anniversary, the corporate reunited autos from totally different international locations all over the world and fashions from each era as much as the start of the third millennium, which is adopted by Lamborghini Polo Storico: this division maintains the historic archive together with the vehicles’ manufacturing paperwork; supplies the unique configurations and different knowledge, and produces and certifies and restores Lamborghinis as much as the Diablo 6.0 SE sequence. A number of vehicles with a particular historical past joined the tour, such because the 350 GT with the second chassis quantity, the oldest current manufacturing Lamborghini, as we speak in good working situation.

“It was actually thrilling to reside today below the Lamborghini flag,” stated Federico Foschini, Chief Advertising and marketing and Gross sales Officer. “It is a crucial 12 months for our firm, and we’re delighted to have celebrated it with the vehicles which have been so necessary in forming the historical past of the model, in order to not overlook our roots whereas we always look to the longer term.”

The tour began from Franciacorta, with roads surrounded by vineyards. From there, the vehicles continued via the Alto Garda Bresciano Park, following the panoramic street that runs alongside the sting of Lake Idro as much as Riva Del Garda on the northern shore of Italy’s largest lake.

At Riva Del Garda, the vehicles parked on the Spiaggia Degli Ulivi, an ideal place to mix magnificence and know-how, the place probably the most trustworthy reproduction of Bob Wallace’s no-longer-existing ‘Jota’ stands out, constructed from a crashed Miura throughout 13 years of relentless work by an English fanatic. It’s exceptional that the mechanical a part of this automotive was rebuilt to the identical specification as the unique by Bob Wallace, the historic take a look at driver from Sant’Agata. The individuals then continued to the Terre Scaligere to finish the day with a go to to Verona.

The next day, the vehicles went onwards to Valpolicella with its undulating vineyards, crossing the historic Visconteo bridge in Valeggio sul Mincio (VR) and stopping for a tour of Villa Sigurtà. Amongst the autos was the Countach LP 400 S was the tempo automotive on the thirty ninth Components 1 Grand Prix of Monte Carlo, which was additionally current at this 12 months’s Pebble Seaside Concours D’Magnificence, arriving immediately in Italy from the USA. The automotive, on the time owned by the Mimran household who headed Lamborghini at the moment, ‘competed’ within the Grand Prix on 31 Could 1981, full with a big flashing gentle mounted on the roof and the inscription ‘intervention’, as a tempo automotive. Founder Ferruccio Lamborghini established a Lamborghini custom of utilizing the Monaco GP setting to current his greatest creations as openers, such because the Miura, Countach, and the unrepeatable Marzal.

The tour individuals have been welcomed in Guastalla (RE) at Villa Malaspina Guarienti, one of the vital stunning examples of the neoclassical type, with a historical past ranging from the early many years of the eleventh century and made much more well-known by its English-style park. Beginning off once more, catching the attention was the Diablo VT used as a ‘demonstration tempo automotive’ throughout the 1996 PPG Championship Auto Racing Groups (CART) Indy Automobile World Sequence races. In historical past, solely two Diablo VTs have ever fulfilled this function, one in black, current on the tour, and one in gold. Each have been outfitted with roll-bars and the Jota equipment to extend most energy to 600 hp, complemented by a devoted air consumption on the bonnet and a entrance bumper with two tow hooks.

On Saturday 16 September the friends arrived in Modena the place, after parking within the Parco Giardino Ducale Estense, they took half within the gala dinner along with Lamborghini administration. The Giro got here to an finish with the final day spent on the historic Sant’Agata Bolognese headquarters. the friends have been former staff of the corporate from eras when basic fashions have been produced, relating anecdotes from their working lives devoted to Lamborghini.

“The Polo Storico Tour represents a central occasion within the sixtieth Anniversary celebrations,” stated Alessandro Farmeschi, Lamborghini’s After Gross sales Director, “not just for the Polo Storico, custodian of the model’s historical past, technical and materials heritage however for the entire of Automobili Lamborghini, which felt compelled on the event of its sixtieth birthday to host the trustworthy house owners of iconic basic vehicles. It was a particular privilege for me to participate within the tour driving the final Diablo produced, one of many gems of Automobili Lamborghini’s assortment, on show on the firm’s museum.”

The ultimate lunch of the tour was held within the Ending constructing, the place clients had the chance to admire the placement the place Huracán, Urus, and Revuelto manufacturing is concluded. Pirelli additionally took half within the Giro. In its capability as official associate, it consolidated its shut bond with Lamborghini as an official provider for the reason that firm in Sant’Agata Bolognese was established in 1963.

Take a look at our intensive picture gallery that includes a number of the most legendary masterpieces made in Sant’Agata since 1963: