Pushkin wrote: the light of happiness, but there is no peace and will. But if you were in the sunny morning on L. U. C. Chopard Classic Weekend Rally, the rest you would definitely lost. It is hard to remain indifferent when you drive by car-legends.
The rally has been held in Moscow since 2003. This year, 120 crew members were declared out against a record 121 last year. The requests were even higher, but they were finished in February. It's understandable. As organizers joked at the press conference before the start: "We could not put such a pig to our new mayor." Indeed, the claimed cars, participants and numerous admirers of antique cars were travelling in Tretyakovsky on May 22. The new stringent requirements for participants this year were not discouraged. And yet the selection was really tough. Each potential participant had to prepare not only to prepare the car and to bring it to an ideal state for the race-it required the route, which was complicated and doubled. The candidates had to tell about their car and convince the organizing committee of the rally that they were worthy to take part in the race. As a result, the organizers believe that this year there will be an ideal balance between the quality and quantity of machines. Andrei Malakhov sent the participants with the start of the participants. He met them at the finish line in the central square of Barwihi, Luxury Village. The winners ' awards took place in two categories: Veteran (cars up to 1941) and "Absolute" (cars from 1941 to 1969). The first place was taken by Yuriy Pachkin and Sergey Makarenko at the Bentley Tourer in 1929, the oldest car. The best among the "young" was the women's crew of Anna Derkach and Olga Shadrin at the Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz (1959). Tigran Mkrtchyan and Grigory Breda won the Mercedes-Benz 300D edition of the 1960 edition of the special "Will to Victory" nomination. Sergei Molozhav and Sergey Parfenov won the nomination of Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III of the 1962 edition of the award: his car Sergey turned into the carriage of ambulance, and appeared in the image of doctors. Two crew members Yevgeny Yaroslavsky (chairman of the committee of classic vehicles) and Mikhail Kondratiev at the Cadillac Supersize Biarritz Convertible in 1959, as well as Evgenia Gerchakov's car at the Mercedes-Benz W109, 1969, were awarded the Mercedes-Benz W109. There is no doubt that the organizers will surprise us with something new next year. Perhaps, as the organizers threatened, Moscow would indeed form a worthy competition of the legendary Mille Miglia.