Motorbikes: the Italian disabled motorbike championship at Mugello

This weekend the Mugello racetrack in Scarperia (Florence) will also host the European and Italian motorcycle championship races Paralympic, organized by the association Di.Di. Diversamente disabili onlus. The competitions will be included within the Italian motorcycle speed championship (Civ) which stops in the Tuscan circuit. The races will see the participation of 30 pilots from Italy, France, Spain, Czech Republic and Austria. The The program foresees that two races will be held in each round. In On the track, motorcycles with 600 and 1000 cc displacements will compete together, but at the end separate rankings will be drawn up. Most some of the pilots are victims of road accidents on motorbikes and for this reason, in addition to organizing competitions, Di.Di. helps the disabled to get the As license, where 's' stands for special, for allow them to drive a two-wheeled vehicle again on the road. The creator and organizer is Emiliano Malagoli from Montecarlo (Lucca): ''In 2011 I lost my right leg due to a road accident - he said - and I immediately decided that I would have liked to ride a motorbike again. To be able to do so would have meaning to psychologically defeat disability. After a little over a year after the accident, I took to the track for the first time right at Mugello and it was as if I hadn't nothing ever happened. I also saw that there was no association or federation in the world that allows kids to get back to running''. Initially, the task of Di, Di., founded in 2013, is was to motivate people who have suffered damages physicists. ''We allowed each of them - he continued Malagoli - to return to driving thanks to the courses that we organized in the squares or even on the track, without the obligation of buy a motorbike, but modify the existing ones by adapting them to their needs. In all these years we have put back in saddle over 400 motorcyclists and, in collaboration with the motorizations and driving schools, issued many licenses "From there to the organization of real championships the step was short - he concluded - Today we have the Italian championship (Octo Cup) and the European championship (European Handy Bridgestone Cup) in which drivers aged 23 to 60 participate, Many people ask us if they are not afraid to return again by motorbike: the answer is no, because it is their passion and the way better to feel alive again''.