Ten years ago the rebirth and now, after the forced stop due to pandemic last year, the historic Rally Lana starts again. In the control room the Biella motor team Eventi, the Veglio 4×4 with the collaboration of Aci Biella, who have reduced the commitment to a single day by proposing three special stages to be repeated several times to bring the sections to a total of eight for 94 kilometers timed. In fact, the same length as in 2019, only about twenty fewer than in edition number 9, that of the record of participants and for this reason today 185 cars at the start, divided into rallies, medium regularity and tourist regularity, are a great success. «We still have the so-called closed doors – recalls Gabriele Bodo, president of Bmt Eventi – because when we had to send the documentation to the Federation, certain openings were not planned and now we stick to what they authorized us to do. I trust in the understanding of our fans ». Biella fans who know how Bmt Eventi have never lightened the prescriptions on this aspect, obtaining vast awards, thanks to its rigor on the rules.
The race will see the big names in the championship and the fierce home crews who know how to show off and push hard on these roads. The predictions are difficult. “There are many drivers who can do well – says Andrea Gibello, president of Aci Biella, as well as a fierce driver competing with the Ford Sierra – from those fighting for the Italian flag like Lucio Da Zanche or Alberto Salvini, to home drivers such as Davide Negri, Corrado Pinzano, Marco Bertinotti or Ivan Fioravanti who know the danger of our roads ». The first two on Porsche, the second with the Subaru Legacy, the third still with a car of the Stuttgart house recognizable by its beautiful sunny yellow, and the last with the Ford Escort. A test that will be selective as per tradition. Bodo remembers it again: «Forecasts of great heat that will put the mechanical resistance of the cars to the test. And then our roads are complicated, there are few straights, and for the rest corners and curves ». Curves of the Ronco test, the former Valdengo already similar proposal in 2012, of 9.25 kilometers, the traditional Baltigati, exact in the 13 thousand meters of the last editions and then the Romanina2 so called because “it is not the original long one it once was »As Mauro Bocchio, a top level navigator, likes to say and today I send it to give his mark on the progress of the race. It starts from the Gli bears shopping center at 9 and returns, apart from the assistance and supplies between one passage and the other on the tests, at 18.56 with the party for the winners complete with Inno di Mameli given the validity for the tricolor helmet.