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TEAM ZORA USA @ MONZA

The Three Mossketeers – Mike Moss, John Cutrone & Hank Gruenberg – all members of the Sarasota Café Racers, spend a week in Italy preparing for the 2025 Mille Miglia. They represent TEAM ZORA USA @ MONZA!

Similar to a travel industry FAM (familiarization) trip, The Spirit of Zora ’57 FI Corvette driver Mike Moss and TEAM ZORA USA teammate, John Cutrone were joined by Hank “Tifosi” Gruenberg on this dream trip: Milano to Monza to Modena. As guests of Maserati Corse, the motorsport soul of the luxury Italian carmaker, the Mossketeers had all-access creds for the Fanatec GT World Challenge Race, and an exclusive test session of the new Maserati MCXtrema racecar at Monza, Italy’s Temple of Speed.

The trip was curated by Cutrone, to gather hospitality, food & wine information as he will be managing TEAM ZORA USA during the Mille Miglia He is creating an agenda for Mike Moss and co-driver Bud Bennett who will be traveling the historic Brescia-Rome-Brescia route. Gruenberg, an experienced Ferrari driver will be sharing his driving and luxury goods shopping experiences in Italy with the Team.

Monza and Maserati racing were the trio from Sarasota, FL’s prime attractions. Mike is one of the lucky 62 who will be receiving a very limited production MCXtrema, and was at Monza for his first on-track experience with Andrea Bertolini, Maserati’s test and development driver. Bertolini, at just 19, was the youngest Scuderia Ferrari test driver, later moving up to work in the experimental and development labs at Ferrari. He won the WEC Championship (GTE AM) and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2015, and is currently Maserati’s Chief Test Driver.

After hot laps with Bertolini in an MCXtrema, Mike Moss shared his experiences trackside with Italian motorsports media and TEAM ZORA USA: “Holy crap! That was the most exhilarating experience ever. The violence of the braking, flying through the S-turns, the G-forces. Unbelievable. Andrea was amazing. He brakes at the last possible point throwing you violently forward, and then turns like the car is pegged to the track. The car never slipped in the turns. It was a violent ride. A real racecar with a real race driver. Nothing can prepare you for what you go through.”

Clearly blown away by Bertolini’s driving expertise and the MCXtrema’s capability at speed on a legendary racetrack, it should be noted that Moss is an experienced Historic racing driver. He pilots his ex-Peter Revson Can-Am Lola T163 powered by a fuel-injected 513-inch aluminum big-block, Lola T70 Mark IIIB with a 432-inch Dart/Chevy, and a Ford quad-cam Turbo Gurney Santa Ana Eagle. This was not his first rodeo!

TEAM ZORA USA’s Monza/Maserati adventure is being followed by an exhilarating week of driving, visiting automotive museums and collections, and experiencing fine Italian food, wines and hotels in preparation for the Mille Miglia ‘Storica’ next year.

For more information about Maserati Racing and the MCXtrema, please visit https://www.maserati.com/us/en/corse

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ROMAN HOLIDAY 2: Fantastico!

ROMAN HOLIDAY 2: Fantastico!

ROMAN HOLIDAY 2: Fantastico! Team Zora USA will bring a fuel-injected ’57 Corvette to the 1000 Miglia Warm Up USA in Virginia in October 2024 and the 1000 Miglia in Italy in 2025 to Celebrate America’s Sports Car! More about our car and team coming soon. Ciao!

SORRENTO ROADS BY 1000 MIGLIA 2024

SORRENTO ROADS BY 1000 MIGLIA 2024: Competition, unique landscapes and discovering the region of Campania, Italy.

You say Sorrento Roads and you think of motor racing jewels among the cliffs, lemon groves and colorful houses of the Amalfi Coast in Italy. Also, Time Trials in unique views such as the port of Maiori and Marina d’Arechi, of the beauty of driving with the Gulf of Naples on the horizon and discovering a welcoming land, rich in beauty and culture, of food and wine delicacies and history. After Thursday’s technical and administrative checks at the Park of Villa Fiorentino, home of the Sorrento Foundation and located in the heart of the town, the following day the 30 crews competed in a Regularity Race of around 210 kilometers, accompanied by clear skies and bright sunshine that gave them a taste of the most authentic flavor of this land.

For the third year running, Alfonso Facchini and Luigia Olivetti in a 1938 B.M.W 238 won the SORRENTO ROADS BY 1000 MIGLIA 2024 Campania competition; second and third place on the podium for two 1955 Porsche 356s, the 1500 Speedster of Bonomi-Codini and the 1500 Coupé of Girardi-Mastellini.Lunch in Capaccio, based on delicious local dairy products and a visit to the excavations of Paestum, a UNESCO heritage site with the cars positioned to frame the ancient ruins of the Greco-Roman era, provided pleasant moments of relaxation before the restart. Then it was off towards the stretch of road in Sorrento with a spectacular view of Naples and Vesuvius. The arrival in Sorrento was both warm and well attended, where the public enthusiastically welcomed the return of the crews.

On Saturday the cars were exhibited to the public at Villa Fiorentino, where a popular jury appointed for the occasion voted for the cars with the best design and style: the 1959 Mercedes Benz 300 S Roadster of De Sanctis-Desanctis Morbiducci triumphed in both categories among the historic cars (built before 1980). Among the post-1980s, Ficca-Caruso’s 2006 Lamborghini Gallardo was elected best design while the most votes for style went to Wagner-Wagner’s 2008 Ferrari California.In the afternoon, the citizens of Sorrento were able to watch the thrilling 1 vs 1 knockout Regularity Challenge of the Trofeo Città di Sorrento: the winner of the last Sorrento Roads 2024 sporting activity was the Fiorentini-Ceci couple in a 1972 Porsche 911 T Targa.

For more information about SORRENTO ROADS BY 1000 MIGLIA 2024 and the 1000 MIGLIA portfolio of classic events, please visit https://1000miglia.it/en/

MILLE MIGLIA REDUX 2023

Now extended to five full days of events, the MILLE MIGLIA REDUX 2023, (1000 Miglia), will involve 405 vintage cars touring Italy for five full days.

The 1000 Miglia Race will run on June 13-17, 2023, between Brescia, Rome, and back along a route of more than 2,000 km. After departing from Viale Venezia and coasting Lake Garda, passing through Verona, Ferrara, Lugo, and Imola, the convoy will end the first leg in Cervia-Milano Marittima; the second day will feature a passage through San Marino, Senigallia, Macerata with a lunch stop, Fermo and Ascoli Piceno and the final parade in Via Veneto in Rome.

The third leg will ascend from the Capital offering lunch in the spectacular Siena, it will continue to Pistoia, the Abetone Pass, Modena, and Reggio Emilia and will finish in Parma; on the fourth day, after Stradella and Pavia, the Race will reach Piedmont with lunch in Alessandria, then Asti and Vercelli and, via Novara, it will head to downtown Milan, which will host the last night of the Race.

On the fifth day, after saying goodbye to Bergamo, Brescia’s twin city as the Italian Capital of Culture 2023, the MILLE MIGLIA REDUX 2023 will end in Brescia in the late morning with a city circuit before the final passage on the Viale Venezia platform and the closing lunch. In the evening, the see-you-in-2024 celebration with the Red Arrow’s full evening events will bring the intense week to an end.

2023 will also be the year of the celebration of the 100^th Anniversary of the Italian Air Force, which has always been very close to our race, and the claim “In-flight towards the future” also well represents the road that the Red Arrow (Mille Miglia) took almost a hundred years ago and is still as relevant today as ever.

Entries will be open from October 13 to January 13, 2023. To enter, cars must already have or have applied for, a Registro 1000 Miglia certificate.

For more information about MILLE MIGLIA REDUX 2023, how to participate, and to learn about the history of the 1000 Miglia that took place from 1927 to 1957 to its rebirth, please visit https://1000miglia.it/en/