With a hint of nostalgia, the world of motorsport is reflected in the exhibition "The Golden Age of Rallying“, Open to Automobile Museum (MAUTO) of Turin, until 2 May 2023.
19 racing cars on display, protagonists of challenges that have become legend, which tell the deeds of drivers, navigators and teams, from the mid-60s to the early 90s.
And one of the greatest rally drivers of all time was "Miki" Biasion, twice world champion (1988-1989), with his inseparable navigator Tiziano Siviero and their Lancia Delta. “I, who have raced, and see these cars, I get goosebumps! I must say that even non-rally enthusiasts can see an epic, they can see mechanical vehicles, they can listen to stories and see films that show how beautiful the man-machine relationship is ”.
Miki Biasion and her Lancia Delta
18 of the 19 exhibits come from one of the most important collections in the world, that of the "Gino Macaluso Foundation for Historic Cars". The flagship of the exhibition is the very rare Fiat X1 / 9 Abarth Prototype of 1974, of which only five examples exist, including the original with which the driver Clay Regazzoni, with Gino Macaluso, the navigator, competed in the Giro Automobilistico d'Italia.
And then many Lancia, many with livery Martini Racing, starting with the legendary Stratos, a watershed car in the history of rallies.
The legendary Lancia Stratos (1976)
You can also take a look at the 1981 Audi Quattro driven by one of the few women who competed in rallies of the time, the French Michele Mouton.
In total, on display are: sand the Lancias, four Fiats, two Fords, a Mini, a Porsche, an Audi, an Alpine, a Renault, a Peugeot and a Toyota.
“This exhibition is the natural evolution of the activity that the Gino Macaluso Foundation for Historic Cars has been carrying out for years,” he explains Monica Mailander Macaluso, president of the Foundation, "to raise awareness of the culture of the world of rallies, so important that we wanted to define the Golden Age of rallies".
And who knows if the golden age of rallying will return ...
The one in Turin, meanwhile, is - to use a rallying term - the first “special stage” of the exhibition, soon destined for other museums throughout Europe.