In Turin, Italy, there's an old building called the Lingotto factory which has a banked oval on its rooftop. It's possibly the coolest building ever designed and built, and recently there was a scooter race held within the historic structure.
Red Bull has somehow managed to gain access to the historic building and organised a scooter race that not only wound its way through the building's interior, but also completed several laps on its roof.
It's a wild idea but one that attracted a fair bit of attention in Italy, and there were a few interesting twists the competitive racing. Of the 150 classic Lambrettas and Vespas that took part in the event, all of them had to show some mechanical understanding of their rides, tasked with removing then replacing the front wheel of their scooters before racing in anger.
The slowest 50 wheel fitters were eliminated while the 100 who made it through competed in an elimination race of sorts.
After each lap, the slowest rider was eliminated, so the last man standing on lap 100 was crowned the winner. His name was Giacomo Tiberti, who just so happened to ride his classic Vespa from Tuscany, which is about 400km give or take.
The race was a chance for mad-keen scooterists to show off their (sometimes customised) scooters, but also to ride around the abandoned Lingotto Fiat factory, which at one point in time was the world's largest car manufacturing plant.
Seen in both modern and classic The Italian Job feature films, the building had the banked oval rooftop integrated so the Fiat 500 could be properly tested. The factory is in the heart of Turin and as such traffic congestion prevented any meaningful testing.
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