The Gran Premio Argentino Histórico Honors A History Scrappy Road Rallying
It’s nice to daydream about taking a hyper exotic car to a hyper exotic place, but you don’t need hundreds of thousands of dollars of disposable income to experience the joys of driving, and this holds true for the vintage sect too, proven recently among the participants in the 15th running of the Gran Premio Argentino Histórico road rally.
In the 1950s, the Automovil Club Argentino (ACA), started what became known as the Argentinian GP (not to be confused with the former Formula 1 event in the country, this was akin to road rallying, part of a series of races that made up the Turismo Carretera). In the years that followed, the race was run sporadically before ceasing altogether, but during the golden age of Argentinian motorsports (the ‘50s) it saw plenty of action, and the ACA has been hosting the Gran Premio Histórico Argentino in honor of those exciting years where the Gálvez brothers were racing against the likes of Juan Fangio and Froilán González (overall winner at Le Mans in ’54, and the first man to win a GP for Ferrari, in 1951) on the hard-packed and rutted roads that were a far cry from the smooth circuits of Formula racing.
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