RALLYLEGEND 2021

SAN MARINO OPENED ITS DOORS TO THE WORLD OF RALLYING AND TO THE ROAR OF ENGINES ECHOING THROUGH ITS STREETS, UNDER THE AEGIS OF ‘RALLYLEGEND’, AN EVENT NOW IN ITS 19TH YEAR. CARS THAT MADE HISTORY CHALLENGED THEIR MODERN CONTEMPORARIES OVER ‘SPECIAL STAGES’ WITHIN THE REPUBLIC OF SAN MARINO, IN AN INCREDIBLE MIX OF PAST AND PRESENT.
EBERHARD & CO. STOOD ALONGSIDE RALLYLEGEND AS BOTH PARTNER AND OFFICIAL TIMEKEEPER, WITH MIKI BIASION, TWO-TIME WORLD RALLY CHAMPION, AS BRAND AMBASSADOR FOR THE COMPANY. BIASION, AFTER AN ASTOUNDING PERFORMANCE IN THE HYUNDAI I20 COUPÉ WRC WITH HIS DAUGHTER BETTINA AT HIS SIDE, WAS ABLE TO MEET FANS INSIDE THE EBERHARD & CO. AREA IN THE VILLAGE FOR A SPECIAL AUTOGRAPH SESSION.
EBERHARD & CO. AWARDED THE CREW MADE UP OF FRENCH-BORN CHAMPION FRANCOIS DELECOUR AND SABRINA DE CASTELLI, COMPETING IN A FORD SIERRA COSWORTH 4X4 AND WINNERS OF THE OVERALL AWARD IN THE “MYTH” CATEGORY, WITH WATCHES FROM THE CHAMPION V COLLECTION, PRESENTED BY MIKI BIASION. IN ADDITION, MARIO PESERICO, CEO OF EBERHARD ITALIA, AWARDED A ‘SPECIAL PRIZE’ TO URUGUAYAN ACE GUSTAVO TRELLES, MULTIPLE WORLD CHAMPION IN GROUP N WITH FOUR CONSECUTIVE TITLES, AS A TRIBUTE TO HIS SIGNIFICANT CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS AND ON THE OCCASION OF THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS FIRST WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP VICTORY.
THE FOUR DAYS OF HEATED COMPETITION SAW GREAT DRIVERS OFFERING A UNIQUE SPECTACLE: THE STAGES HOSTED A SUCCESSION OF SOME 150 CREWS FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD, INCLUDING NAMES SUCH AS YOUNG IRISHMAN CRAIG BREEN, JUST ONE OF THE ACCLAIMED REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE WRC, THIS TIME ABOARD A WORLD RALLY CAR FROM THE 90S WITH TAMARA MOLINARO AS CO-DRIVER, AS WELL AS GIGI GALLI, THE LATEST ITALIAN DRIVER TO WEAR WORKS OVERALLS IN THE WRC, WITH HIS RALLYCROSS KIA RIO RX.
THE START OF THE COMPETITION TOOK PLACE AT NIGHT, AGAINST THE SUPERB BACKGROUND OF SAN MARINO OLD TOWN, WITH A STAGE OF UNPRECEDENTED LENGTH, REPEATED TWICE; THE EVENT CONTINUED ON DAY 2 WITH A LOOP OF A FURTHER THREE SPECIAL STAGES, ALSO REPEATED TWICE.
GUEST STAR AT THE 2021 EDITION WAS LORIS CAPIROSSI, ON HIS DEBUT AT RALLYLEGEND, IN A SKODA FABIA R5. AFTER WINNING THE 125CC MOTO GP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ON HIS DEBUT AGED 17 IN 1990, CAPIROSSI REPEATED THE TITLE IN 1991 WITH THE HONDA RS125R, GOING ON TO WIN THE 250 CLASS ON THE APRILIA IN 1998. EBERHARD & CO. HAS ESTABLISHED A SPECIAL BOND WITH THE CHAMPION FROM EMILIA ROMAGNA, DEDICATING A LIMITED-EDITION CHRONOGRAPH FROM THE CHRONO 4 COLLECTION TO HIM IN 2008, THE “CAPIREX” MODEL.