Moto Club Faenza
logo_motoclubfaenza_400.jpgThe directors of Moto Club Faenza
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In the picture below, the entire Governing Council and most active members of M.C. Faenza celebrate the end of World weekend of 13-14 September 2008
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Federations and Promoters:
The town of Faenza:
Partenership:

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The History of the Moto Club

The history of motor sport competitions in cities  

In 1905 the Moto Club Faenza, just born, it immediately turns to the races on the track stand of the city.

The first two were the Corsa and the Awakening of the race Faenza, the first winner was the Bolognese Taylor, one of the first pets of the motion was a woman, Vittorina Sembri, the character of absolute value, which on August 17 1913 threshed such a Antoniazzi of Padova in a challenge that is racing to its Faenza.

On 9 August 1914 will dispute the last race before the big war. The resumption of activities occurred in 1920, then came the Cup Valleys Lamone and the Senio, and with this event exploded Gaddoni Aristide, who at the age of sixteen suffer the amputation of a leg but with the help of some friends realized a leg Aluminium that before every race binds to the motion you want it: with this system is necessary on various races on his Harley Davidson.

Following shows the Centaur Faenza Francesco Lama, who conquered his first victory in 1928 in Mantova and will run until after the Second World War.

In 1948 The Moto Club Faenza hosts Circuit citizen “Bocche dei Canali” of the Grand Prix of Nations, the most classic of international competitions of speed, which takes place in the presence of about sixty thousand spectators.

In subsequent years, always on the same circuit is given life to the City of Ceramics Cup more times as valid proof of the Italian first-class speed. The Chapter of the great racing speed Faenza closes in 1956, when the current of motocross, grew rapidly after the first international tests played in nearby Imola, obtained in 1957 the organization of the second test of national championship motocross circuit on the provisional “Isola”, proceeds on the left bank of the river Lamone, a few steps from Old Town.

The runway island increases the nursery of local pilots and reinforces the position of the motocross riders in the Moto Club so much from having to make a more suitable location in, on Samoggia. On the Cross Field “Samoggia” runs until the end of the sixties, after which the draft conceives it del Cross Field first-class seat in the Monti Coralli, zone in hill between the city of Faenza and Castebolognese. In the early seventies is implemented the new cross field, an area made available by the municipal park “Romitorio”.

The first motion from Coralli to rumble race in 1972 and, while aware of drivers of motocross dedicate it to successfully organize trips to Coralli, one of the pilots is to speed a transition to high-level organizing in 1977 the Grand Prix of Nations at the Imola track.

In 1979 the big occasion it is motocross, which provide for Monti Coralli evidence of a world class 500. In 1981 the rate of new organizing the first test of the new European championship speed with the Grand Prix of Europe at the International Mugello track.

scene classe125, a huge success with audiences. Experience world will switch to other races nationally, will be repeated again in 1985 (125cc), 1989 (125cc) and 1993 (500cc). After years of neglect, the circuit Monte Coralli, once again thanks to the commitment of the Moto Club Faenza, has recently returned to international limelight with the world MX3 2006 and 2007 and MX1/MX2 of 2007 and 2008.

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MOTOCLUB Faenza - Headquarters and Secretariat
Via Tebano 1 / I-48018 Faenza (Ravenna)
Phone: (+39)0546.47220
Fax: (+39)0546.47220