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motor ranch 46
place:tavullia, italia
project:ing. domenico fucili
buyer:valentino rossi
lighting project:maicol fedrigo, UpO
technical sales consultant:maicol fedrigo
valentino rossi’s new project
was kick-started in 2010:
to construct a space
for training young riders, the ranch.
it all began more than twenty years ago
when he rode a motocross bike with his father, among junk and building rubble, along
the disconnected paths of an isolated quarry
in the province of pesaro urbino.
the young champion he decided to construct
the official track of the vr46 academy
in tavullia, on 1600m of dirt road with
the conviction that training on the land helps you to go fast also on the track. the hilly landscape
gently surrounds the boundaries of the ranch.
in front of a renovated farmhouse
that contains the museum, the workshop
and various rooms of the motor ranch,
a stretch extends where the riders train:
tracks that are ordered and designed
with a series of regular and rounded bends
that lie on different levels of the hill.
among these, a soft cross one, formed by two ovals of which the outer measures 570m and the ‘tt’,
a narrower and more technical climbing stretch.
in total 2 and a half kilometres of limestone
and a mixture of calcareous rock
fine-tuned over the years; in fact
the track grew little by little, to find the right balance
with the best road holding and least
maintenance time. the ranch is fundamental
to the vr46 academy plan, the first italian
academy of motorcycling, because young riders
can race alongside the master, learning his style
and way of driving, the result of decades
of competitions. it’s a place of inspiration, teaching and transmission of values.
it isn’t an exclusive circle but a space open
to all riders who want to challenge
valentino rossi and his pupils.
the project, an actual historical restoration intervention on pre-existing
farmhouses, still hasn’t been completed:
today, close to the track,
there’s a dressing room,
a workshop, a room where riders eat,
the pressroom and the office
for managing the races.
nearby there’s another rustic building
to be renovated to house the gym which,
together with the track for cross,
flat track and athletics, will be part
of the future of the motor ranch.
the first goal achieved was the creation
of the lighting system which
permitted prolonging
the training hours and using
the track even in the absence of natural light.
collaborating with engineer domenico fucili,
technical coordinator of the facility,
and alberto tebaldi, md of racing apparel
and test track, Viabizzuno has created
a lighting design of great quality.
eight poles: six positioned in the centre
of the rings and two including remote
controlled traffic lights.
eight ground anchors inclined
at 2 degrees have made these structures,
which stand 25m high, elements
that are organic with the landscape.
by studying the various heights between
the straights of the outer ring,
it was decided to place the poles
in the space in accordance
with different centre-to-centre distances,
alignments and inclinations in order
to achieve a homogenous illumination
that reflects the values required by the italian motorcycling federation regulations:
average illumination 80lux,
uniformity equal to 0.5. one metre
high fibreglass spires of coloured light stand
on the great steel poles,
housing an rgb system
that creates drapes of light
above the arena.
the crown of hills that embraces
the completely illuminated ranch
creates a unique landscape:
an arena where riders can continue
their challenges even without daylight.
flat track: variant of the track racing,
a form of motorcycle competition
in which single riders or teams face
each other on unpaved oval circuits, as the speed way runs on flat slopes
of gravel, shingle or sand, which competitors exploit to drift,
or to get a controlled heel. unlike the speedway bikes, completely
without brakes, the flat track bikes
are equipped with only the rear brake.
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