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The pilots prepare the Pavia-Venice raid: “Ticino too low, right to start elsewhere”

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The entrepreneur Benaglia presented his boat. Riccardo Ravizza also competing. Saturday briefing at the Amp

PAVIA. The pilots from Pavia entered the 69th Pavia-Venice raid celebrated their participation in the historic competition at Vita, a local in the city center. The entrepreneur Giorgio Benaglia, accompanied by his daughter Beatrice, presented the boat with which he will face his fifth raid.

«I raced the first at 19 – says Benaglia – I had a Molinari with a 100 horsepower Mercury outboard. Closed tenth. Then I participated two more times but without reaching the finish line. After so many years, Tullio Abbate asked me if I wanted to try again and so I decided to accept the challenge. I’m sorry not to leave Pavia but the Ticino shoal is such that it would have been too risky. Starting from San Nazzaro d’Ongina (fraction of Monticelli d’Ongina) I am sure that I will be able to get to Venice, also because the level of the Po is much higher. I participate – continues Benaglia – because the Pavia-Venice raid was a mythical race, awaited and followed by everyone. I will race with a two-seater hull with Cristiano Bernardi ».

Another Pavese in contention is Paolo Romagnoli, who will face the raid for the eleventh time with a three-point racer. His brother Claudio will compete with Riccardo Ravizza on a mono-hull hydrojet designed by Fabio Buzzi; as well as Alberto Gavazzi, who will race with a rubber dinghy rented from the motor boating federation; then Alberto Huober, son of art, who will race on a racer and the jet ski rider Alberto Mattalini. About twenty pilots from Pavia will participate and many met yesterday at Vita for a toast.

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«It is only a pity – added Paolo Romagnoli – that it is not possible to start from the Powerboat, but it is not the first time this has happened. I remember the year we left Cremona. Ticino is lean, you can only pass under a span of the Covered Bridge, but with boats that fish a lot it would be too high a risk ».

The creation of Bressani

A novelty is represented by the presence of the Toscano Racing Team with two stands at the Motonautica, tomorrow afternoon, to underline the proximity of a land motor sport to that of water: a symbol of the restart. Among the particularities of this year the prize conceived by the Pavia-based artist Stefano Bressani, which will be awarded with the Theo Rossi di Montelera cup: it is a sculpture depicting the head of a pilot, and aims to be the artist’s concrete tribute to a competition. born more than ninety years ago (1929), whose original trophy is kept at the headquarters of the Amp. The prize is dedicated to the memory of Count Theo Rossi of Montelera: it will go to the competitor who in the timed section Revere-Pontelagoscuro will hold the highest average speed.

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