A few days before the MotoGP Emilia-Romagna GP, taking place this weekend on the Misano circuit (HERE the TV times), bad weather has arrived to disrupt the busy schedule of events at The Riders’ Land Experience, leading to some last-minute changes. This is the updated schedule:
MotoGP Riders’ Parade cancelled, inauguration of totem dedicated to “SIC” postponed
The adverse weather forecast for Wednesday 18 September has forced the organisers to cancel the MotoGP Riders’ Parade scheduled for 5pm in the historic centre of Rimini, with the presence of some of the MotoGP riders and a large number of motorbikes.
The inauguration of the luminous totem in memory of Marco Simoncelli in Coriano will change day. Originally scheduled for Thursday morning, the event wanted by the municipal administration to name the roundabout at the intersection of via Marano and via Saragat after the late champion from Coriano will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday 21 September. During the event, the luminous totem located at the roundabout will be unveiled, the subject of a radical intervention with graphics representing Simoncelli’s colors and a texture created by the Romagna designer, two-time Compasso d’Oro winner, Aldo Drudi.
Ingar Motor Fest in Riccione and Honorary Citizenship for Giacomo Agostini
Don’t miss the rich program of Ingar Motor Fest in Riccione, which will be held from Friday to Sunday in Viale Amerigo Vespucci (Luna Park area).
As announced today by the Municipality of Riccione, on the evening of Friday 20 September at 8:30 pm the fifteen-time world champion of motorcycling, Giacomo Agostini, will receive honorary citizenship of Riccione from the mayor Daniela Angelini. The evening will end with an original talk show to which the Riccione comedian Paolo Cevoli and Monsignor Nicolò Anselmi, bishop of Rimini, will be added.
Friday and Saturday, from 4:00 p.m. and Sunday from 10:00 a.m., space for performances, street food stands and from 6:00 p.m. for hot air balloon flights. At midnight, the fireworks and light show. In the Drift Arena, the Cosmo Drift Team drivers will perform spectacular stunts with drift cars, and it will be possible to experience the thrill of Taxi Drift. The Jeep-Trial Arena will present an obstacle course for the great protagonists of the Italian off-road championship, who will challenge the force of gravity with their ‘climbing’ vehicles. At the heart of the festival, the Freestyle Arena will host Alvaro Dal Farra’s team. For the little ones, the Happy Zone. And then hot air balloon flights, an exhibition of model cars and motorbikes, Rallycross, self-built cars and motorbikes in the Time Machine Area, the “fire-breathing mechanical monsters”, the static sculptures on display in the Between Science and Science Fiction section.
The event will also offer a selection of food and wine excellences from International Street Food, in collaboration with Confartigianato Rimini. Admission to the event is free with a free offering: part of the proceeds will be donated to Aism (Italian Multiple Sclerosis Association) and the Italian Red Cross, Riccione section. The detailed program is available on the website of the Municipality of Riccione: www.comune.riccione.rn.it
Saturday of events at the Misano World Circuit
On Saturday 21 September at 11:30 am at the Pit Building of the Misano World Circuit (MWC), an installation will be unveiled that will recall the prestigious Compasso d’Oro ADI 2024 award that the MWC, together with designer Aldo Drudi, received last June in the ‘Research for Business’ category. The Award refers to the intuition of synthesizing the colors of the Riders’ Land in the over 20,000 square meters of the Marco Simoncelli escape routes, to the point of making the track an identity and connecting it with the territory.
The installation will make the memory of the prestigious award permanent in a strategic space that looks to the future of the circuit. The ceremony will be attended by the top management of ADI with the vice president Antonella Andriani and Wladimiro Bendandi president of ADI Emilia-Romagna, those of MWC with the president Luca Colaiacovo and the managing director Andrea Albani, Carmelo Ezpeleta CEO of Dorna and the designer Aldo Drudi.
Also on Saturday, at 5:00 p.m. at the Padel Arena, the visit of a group of local professionals and entrepreneurs will end with a sports tournament. From 12:00 p.m. they will be welcomed by Nadia Padovani, CEO of Team Gresini, for a discussion on the role of women in motorsport in the various operational areas. In collaboration with MWC, they will do a ‘paddock tour’, watch the sprint race and the day will end with the awards ceremony for the padel tournament at the swimming pool of the Santamonica Restaurant inside the circuit.
The genius of Massimo Tamburini on display at MWC and Transitalia Expo in Rimini
From Friday 20 September to Sunday 22 September, all those who go to the Misano World Circuit cannot miss “The world of Massimo Tamburini”, the exhibition set up in the rooms of Garage 51, in grandstand C.
The initiative, strongly supported by the daughter of the designer from Rimini, Simona Tamburini, falls on the tenth anniversary of the death of her father Massimo, and coincides with the thirtieth anniversary of the production of one of his most important “creations”, the Ducati 916. On display are many jewels, motorcycles that saw Massimo Tamburini as the protagonist of a period, when in 1973 he founded the Bimota motorcycle company, until the end of the early 2000s, when Tamburini ceased his intense collaboration with MV Agusta. On Sunday 22nd, Massimo Tamburini’s daughter, Simona, and Livio Lodi, curator of the Ducati Museum, who contributed to the creation of this important exhibition, will be present at the exhibition.
On the same weekend, in Piazzale Fellini and on Lungomare Tintori in Rimini, the third edition of Transitalia Expo will take place, an event that accompanies the tenth edition of the Transitalia Marathon, starting from Rimini on Monday 23 September.
It is also reported that the advance sale of tickets to attend the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix continues, in which all Sunday races will be brought forward by one hour compared to the canonical time. Tickets can be purchased on the TicketOne platform and on the misanocircuit.com website.
