The Nuraghi and Vermentino Rally takes shape

There are three months to go before the Rally dei Nuraghi and Vermentino starts, and the first news is beginning to unveil itself. Scheduled for Friday 15 and Saturday 16 September, the 20th edition of the event organized by Rassinaby Racing, with the support of the regional tourism and sport departments, will be valid, for the third consecutive year, for the Italian Rally Gravel Championship (with coefficient 1 ,5), for the Zone 9 Rally Cup and for the Sardinian Delegation Regional Championship. The modern rally will be combined with the race valid for the Italian Historic Terra Car Rally Championship and for the Regional Championship, and with the fourth edition of the Baja Vermentino-Terre di Gallura, fifth round of the Italian Cross Country championship.
The first novelty is the logo of the race which celebrates its historic twentieth anniversary and recalls the name of the event, with stylized images of the nuraghe and the vine leaf, to symbolize Vermentino. The yellow outline is a tribute to the color of the first logo of the event.
The 2023 edition will include around 75 timed kilometres, while the total distance to be covered will remain under 300 kilometres. Green light on the morning of September 15 with the shakedown in Berchidda. And, precisely in honor of the Municipality of Monte Acuto which has welcomed the Rally for two decades, the program of the twentieth anniversary race will include the start and finish in Berchidda, both on Friday and Saturday afternoon.
The organization is working on a rich calendar of side events that will frame the sporting event. The intention is to combine a symbolic race of the Gallura area with events that give enthusiasts, residents and tourists a unique experience to discover not only motorsport, but also the beauties and peculiarities of a wonderful corner of Sardinia.
«Twenty years are a great achievement, Rassinaby Racing is an association of enthusiasts and it is a pleasure and a pride, after two continuous decades of Rally dei Nuraghi and Vermentino, except for 2013 and 2020, to be here», commented the president of the organizing association Alessandro Taras. «We have always looked with admiration at events that have made the history of Sardinia, and we would never have thought we too could write a page in the history of regional motoring. Many things have changed in twenty years, even the pandemic has made its contribution, but we continue to give it our all, we work to always do our best with the support of the Region, the local administrations, Aci Sport Delegation of Sardinia and Aci Sassari. It will be a special twentieth birthday and we want it to be an edition to remember».