The Cup of the Alps 2022winter regularity competition for historic cars organized by 1000 Miglia Srlwill take place from 9 to 12 March and will be the first race valid for the 2022 Italian Major Events Championship organized by ACI Sport. The cars will face a path that will cross the uniqueness of the Alpine arc of Italy, Switzerland and Austria in the presence of some UNESCO World Heritage Sites, taking up what was proposed in the first historical edition held in August 1921: then there were five stages and over 2,300 kilometers through passes and passes, demonstrating the possibility of reaching places until then considered unreachable and in recognition of the event as one of the most powerful territorial promotion tools of the time.
After the first edition by 1000 Miglia in 2019, the re-enactment of the Alpine race will see this year 54 cars at the start with a parterre of crews coming not only from Italy but also from the United States, Israel, Mexico, Germany, Poland, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland. The Fiat 514 Coppa delle Alpi Spider Sport of 1931, 514 MM of 1930 and 508C of 1937 and 1938 and the Lancia Aprilia of 1937 and 1939 make up the group of pre-war cars, while Alfa Romeo, Bristol, Jaguar, Austin Healey, Mercedes Benz, MG, Triumph, Porsche, Saab, Volvo and Ferrari complete the list of cars admitted to the start.
The uniqueness of Coppa delle Alpi 2022 emerges from the numbers: 11 Time Checks, 5 Stamp Checks, 70 Timed Trials and as many as 65 Secret Media Surveys along a path of over 1,000 kilometers. Test groups along the route will award the BPER Trophy and the Trophies named after Bormio, St. Moritz, Seefeld and Bressanone. From a geographical and landscape point of view, the first day of competition will see Brescia as the starting and finishing point of a panoramic loop that will reach Nistisino, Sulzano and Lake Iseo.
On the second day, from the City of the 1000 Miglia, the cars will skirt the western Lake Garda to head towards the Adamello-Brenta Natural Park, a Unesco heritage site with 48 lakes, and the Adamello glacier, one of the largest in Europe. . The lunch stop at Fai della Paganella will take the cars towards Val di Non, Val di Sole, the Passi del Tonale and Aprica up to Bormio for the end of the stage.
On the third day the cars will arrive in St. Moritz facing the Bernina Pass and Val Müstair and, after the break in San Valentino alla Muta, they will cross the Resia Pass to continue beyond the Austrian border and arrive in Seefeld in Tirol in the evening. In the last stage, the crews will cross the Brenner Pass and through the Val Pusteria they will reach the slopes of the Dolomites where they will face the last sporting tests before reaching the finish line in Bressanone, home of the finish and the final award ceremony.
The overall winner, the winner of each grouping and the winner of the Media Trials General Classification will win the guarantee of acceptance to the 1000 Miglia 2023.