Rally Round the Red Square

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Held each year in the vicinity of Moscow, the Golden Ring Rally is not about speed, but rather on precisely following the mapped route. The distances between the time control need to be covered within a certain time limit. On Saturday July 11th 35 cars started from the Red Square in Moscow. Crews from Russia, Italy, Great Britain, USA and Switzerland drove 1211 km with 86 ability trials. This year the route covered the territories of six Russian provinces and went through the many picturesque towns that form the Russian Golden Ring. The finish was four days later in the center of Moscow. Too bad the 1925 Alfa Romeo RL SS with the starting number one wasn’t allowed to participate, due to some technicalities. The Lagonda from Andrey Parkovskiy started as number two. Apart from the pre-war cars we really liked to see the participation of typical Russian cars like the Moskvitch and the Volga. (photos courtesy Nadia Bazhenina)

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