At Mugello the decisive challenge for Di.Di. World Bridgestone Cup

The last seasonal stage of the Bridgestone Champions Challenge will take place this weekend at Mugello, within which the DiDi Trophy, the championship created by the non-profit organization Differently Disabled, which fields disabled drivers together with able-bodied drivers in a separate classification. Born thanks to the collaboration with the Gentlemen's Motor Club of Rome, the Motoclub Firenze and the FMI, Di.Di. World Bridgestone Cup is recognized by the FIM itself.

For the first time in the world, an experimental ranking was drawn up in a motorcycling race, based on the application of disability coefficients, as happens in the Paralympics, reserved for athletes with disabilities in each discipline, and the last May 11th. This experimentation was born thanks to the collaboration between the non-profit organization Di.Di. and Igor Confortin, coach of the Italian national Parasnowboard team.

It will be precisely in this stage that the outcome of the final ranking of the championship will be decided and the games are still "open". In the 1000 class the leader Daniele Barbero (wearer of a prosthesis on his right leg) will have to get to the podium to be able to win and will have to defend himself from the attacks of Fabio Tagliabue (who runs scanning with only one eye) and Enrico Mariani (also wearing a prosthesis to the right leg).

Also present were the wild cards Luca Raj (winner of the last edition), Mattia Buriani (placed 2nd in the didi bridgestone cup on 24 August) and the new entry Fabio Pitorri.

In the 600 class there will be a battle between Emiliano Malagoli (president and creator of the trophy) and Cristin Carnevale (hearing impaired). Malagoli is fresh from the Vallelunga test riding the Ducati 1198, with which Davide Giugliano won the stock 1000 championship in 2011.

The story of Emiliano Malagoli:

“I am Emiliano Malagoli, I am 39 years old and 3 years ago I had a terrible accident on the road with the consequences I have reported above. Since that evening of July 30, 2011 I have set myself a seemingly impossible goal, to return to racing on the track in a trophy, as I did before; even if I had become disabled, I had to succeed, for myself but mainly for my daughters who did not have to see their father change, perhaps a little physically, but absolutely not in the head. After 7 months in hospital, thanks to a special prosthesis that I studied with my orthopedists, I wanted to return to Mugello to understand if something had changed inside me: nothing. The same look, aimed at the exit of the curve; the same determination to lengthen braking; in short, it was still me, I had made my daughters the father they had and myself the person who was lying on the asphalt a few months earlier.

After some tests, just 400 days into my new life, because that evening I was born for the 2nd time, I managed to return to race in the Bridgestone Trophy, on my Suzuki 600: closed in last place, but for For me it was like a world victory, I rode my last lap crying into my helmet like a child. In the following 2 years I worked to involve as many young people as possible, in the same conditions as me, who had not lost hope of riding a motorbike again: I created a non-profit organization (Di.Di. Differently Disabled) to give the opportunity to those he wanted to try riding our motorbikes adapted to every disability again. At the same time, I created a team of "special" drivers to participate in the Bridgestone Trophy together with able-bodied drivers. There were five of us who started, now there are about twenty of us. And last August 24th at Mugello we organized the first race in the world reserved for disabled riders, who even came from Australia: it was a success, sporting but also, and above all, social."