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61 classic cars will dispute to the Rally Villa de Azpeitia today

This weekend will take place the V edition of the Rally Villa de Azpeitia for Sport Classic Vehicles (cars with more than 25 years). They will take part 61 enrolled, of the most varied origins: The Canary Islands, Cantabria, Basque Country, Catalonia and will even go an equipment from Portugal.

One is a test in most important which it is not the speed of the vehicles, but the ability of conductor and navigator, call thus because it handles almost so many apparatuses as in an airplane and must take to the equipment without losing itself by a secret route), to maintain speeds average, always 50 inferiors to km/h. All this with vehicles that do not count on the comforts of nowadays, like attended direction or conditioned air, and that on approval puts the endurance of the occupants.

Between the participants the best specialists as newcomer in a modality, this one of classic, that are fashionable, and the one will go as much that the test always repeats. And since the power is not decisive, we will be able to contemplate the most varied selection of collection cars, all in an exquisite state of conservation: from Seat 127, to Porsche 911, happening through BMW's, Lancia's or Mini among others. The oldest vehicle in this occasion is a Triumph TR-3A of year 1959. The competition will begin Saturday to the 16,00 hours starting off of the Place of the Courts of Azpeitia, for, after a shutdown to have dinner in Gabiria, to continue until past the 1 of the dawn. One will go through typical sections of rallies and ascents of Gipuzkoa, like Urraki, Errezil, Etumeta, Aizarna, Endoia, Azkoitia, Mandubia or Garín. Sunday in the morning, from the 10,30, they will realize a route of 3 hours finalizing with a food in sidrería Añota. Altogether the equipment recorrerám almost 400 km, of which 82% are timed.

One of the characteristics of this test is that it is realized in highway abierta to the traffic, reason why any unforeseen circumstance can make them waste a precious time. The organization requests the spectators who as far as possible facilitate the passage to the participants.