FROM THE VIEWS OF THE AMALFI COAST TO THE RUINS OF PAESTUM, A JOURNEY BETWEEN TIMED TRIALS AND DISCOVERY OF THE TERRITORY
For the third consecutive year the Freccia Rossa returns to Sorrento with the Roads by 1000 Miglia format , designed to bring a taste of 1000 Miglia outside the classic routes of the most beautiful race in the world . This is Sorrento Roads , a journey to discover the Sorrento Peninsula and the Amalfi Coast , which this year will be enriched with the new features of the race passages from Salerno and Paestum and the landing (strictly car-free) in Capri.
After the technical and sporting checks scheduled for this afternoon, tomorrow the cars will compete in the regularity challenge which, from Piazza Andrea Veniero in Sorrento, will go up towards Sant’Agata sui due Golfi and reach the Nastro Verde for the first time trials ; the passage from Positano, Praiano, Amalfi and Minori and the second block of Time Trials in the port of Maiori will offer the beauty of the Amalfi Coast and then continue along the coast on the slopes of the Irno Valley towards Salerno and Cilento . After stopping for lunch in Capaccio, the competitors will be able to visit the Archaeological Park of Paestum, leaving the competing cars on display in the splendid setting in front of the excavations.
The restart for the second sector of the race will include Time Trials in Marina di Arechi , the island port designed by the architect Santiago Calatrava and, before leaving the southern gulf of the Sorrento peninsula, the cars will animate the central streets of Salerno , with a Stamp control in Corso Garibaldi and the last sports tests along the Strada Statale Sorrentina.
On the morning of Saturday 6 April, while the cars will be exhibited in the gardens of the Sorrento Foundation and Piazza Andrea Veniero for evaluation by the Popular Jury who will elect the car with the best design and the one that best represents the style, the participants will reach sea the island of Capri to have lunch in one of the most famous and dreamed of scenarios in the world. At the end of the day, the competitors will give life to the City of Sorrento Trophy , a 1 vs 1 direct elimination regularity challenge that will liven up the city centre.