The Ricardo Tormo Circuit will celebrate the eighth edition of Racing Legends on March 4 and 5, its annual concentration of classic cars and motorcycles, with the figure of versatile driver, editor and organizer of major motor events Jaime Alguersuari as the hero.
Jaime Alguersuari He is one of the characters with the greatest contribution in the last 50 years to the development of motorcycling and motor racing in Spain. He is currently 72 years old and among the various activities he maintains is, through social networks, calling what he calls “The Last of the Philippines” to talk about the current motorcycling from the point of the view of the most authentic bikers. last century.
Pilot, editor and event organizer
They will be two days to remember the epic motorcycling in the 70s where he was a pilot, won the 24 hours of Le Mans and Montjuic, became champion of Spain and Europe, was a rival of Angel Nieto and Ricardo Tormo, and also in remember the races of the 80s and 90s where the magazine created by Alguersuari, Solo Moto, played a major role as a publishing company and as an organizer of events such as the Critérium Solo Moto or the Superprestigio .
In the world of motorsports, Jaime Alguersuari’s work has also been key in recent years. At the end of the 90s, he was the promoter of Formula Nissan with Marc Gené first, and Fernando Alonso and Antonio García later, the first champions. Already in the 21st century, the contest has become Renault’s World Series, where Robert Kubica and Carlos Sainz Jr. stand out. in the list of champions and where their son Jaime Alguersuari Jr. also participated. who is a Formula 1 driver. from 2009 to 2011.
He collaborated on the Cheste design
Also. Along with Valencia drivers Jorge Martínez Aspar and Adrián Campos, he actively collaborated in the design of the Ricardo Tomo Circuit, inaugurated in 1999.
Alguersuari will be the star of the track, with an exhibition at the controls of Ossa where Santiago Herrero is about to win the World Cup and where he had a serious accident on the Isle of Man; and off the track too, with open conferences for attendees to discuss the details of motorcycling and motorsports from then and now with him and other notable protagonists.
More than a thousand classic cars
Motorcycles, cars, bicycles and classic trucks will be part of the concentration. Many of them will participate in various activities, exhibitions and races on the World Cup track in Cheste. The rest will form a giant exhibition where there will be no shortage of activities for the whole family. Tickets to attend the event will go on sale soon on the Circuit’s website www.circuitcardotormo.com
Source: La Verdad
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