17–20 September 2026
Gran Premio
Nuvolari
Three days of racing. More than one hundred timed trials. A 1957 Porsche 356, number 171, and a podium that gave Princess Grace another chapter.
- Crew
- Andrea Galgano / Davide Montani
- Car
- Porsche 356 A T1 · 1957 · No. 171
- Edition
- 36th Gran Premio Nuvolari
Some races are measured in speed. The Gran Premio Nuvolari is measured in attention. Every hundredth matters, every mistake has to be forgotten before the next trial, and concentration must survive the endless miles between one start line and the next. In the 36th edition, Andrea Galgano and Davide Montani brought Princess Grace — our 1957 Porsche 356 A T1, number 171 — through three days of competition.
A living tribute
History, in motion
Dedicated to Tazio Nuvolari, the “Flying Mantuan”, the event brings timeless engineering back to life across the roads and historic squares of Northern and Central Italy. Heritage is not presented as something static. It moves, sounds and competes again, while driver, navigator and car are asked to work as a single instrument.
The next hundredth
Precision becomes endurance
Regularity is not the search for maximum speed. It is the attempt to arrive exactly when intended, again and again. More than one hundred timed trials turn precision into endurance: a hundredth gained, a hundredth lost, a correction made in silence. The hardest discipline is not avoiding every error, but leaving each one behind before the next line.
Princess Grace
Fully alive
Princess Grace did exactly what she was born to do: travel, compete and forge unforgettable memories. Across long roads, historic cities and timed sections, the elegance of a 1957 car had to coexist with focus, repetition and precision. She was not there to illustrate the past. She was there to keep living it.
Three days
No moment stands alone
A start line only lasts a few seconds. What remains is everything around it: the approach, the instruction, the exact passage under the clock and the immediate need to prepare for what follows. Trial after trial, the rally becomes a sequence of small decisions held together by rhythm.
The route
Concentration travels
Between one test and the next, the landscape changes but the task does not. The crew has to carry the same concentration from open roads to circuits and historic centres, allowing the car to breathe without ever losing the rhythm of the competition.
Movement
The past does not stand still
The Gran Premio Nuvolari is a celebration of driving soul because the cars are not treated as silent objects. They return to the road, acquire dust, cross lines and make their engineering audible again. Their history is understood through use.
The distance between
Where the story accumulates
The stopwatch records the tests, but the story also grows in the kilometres between them. Focus settles into habit. Driver, navigator and car learn the same cadence. The route becomes less a backdrop than the space in which their agreement is tested.
The human line
Roads become theatre
Classic engines echo differently when a town gathers around them. Flags, stone, applause and the brief closeness of spectators turn each passage into public theatre, before number 171 disappears again toward another measured line.
The result
A podium for Princess Grace
At the finish, the numbers gave the story its clearest line. Galgano and Montani placed third overall in the Porsche Penske Trophy, among 47 Porsches on the starting grid, spanning classic, modern and GT models.
- 3rd overall
- Porsche Penske Trophy · 47 Porsches
- 48th overall
- Historic Cars
- 36th overall
- CIGE
- 46th
- Absolute Penalties Standings
- 14th
- Category RC3
- 10th
- Category RC3 CIGE
- 9th
- Class RC3/1
- 7th
- Class RC3/1 CIGE
- 16th
- Gentlemen Standings
- 86th
- Average Speed Trials · Historic Cars
- 45th
- Average Speed Trials · CIGE
- 1,434
- Penalties · 2,251.38 points
Numbers tell only half the story. They cannot measure the deep focus, the endless miles, the mistake forgotten in a split second or the hundredth chased trial after trial. The podium brought an extraordinary satisfaction; the real reward was seeing a 1957 car continue to do exactly what it was born to do: travel, compete and create memories.