“Alfa Romeo Champions” Award Ceremony

‘A trophy for Champions: Alfa Romeo rewards its drivers with works of art by avant-garde Italian sculptors’. With these words began the article in the ‘Quadrifoglio’ no. 4 of July 1967. And so, Marco Cajani and Goffredo Chiavelli invented a kermesse to reward all the Alfa Romeo drivers who had distinguished themselves in the sporting season that had just ended. An assembly of such importance is to be held in a place that is symbolic for Alfa Romeo and will be a reason to meet, to give journalists and sponsors photographs and descriptive press kits and to discuss and promote the sports programmes with all the club’s members and supporters, as well as to award them, together with the other Alfa Romeo Champions, with a trophy sculpture created for the occasion by renowned artists. The 1992 prize-giving is organised at the Balocco Experimental Centre to celebrate the club’s 10 years of activity. The following year, it is held at Castello Sforzesco in the presence of Mayor Formentini. Since 1994, and for a considerable number of years, it will find its natural home at the Alfa Romeo Museum in Arese, except during a few exceptional events (Bridgestone/Firestone Centenary and Ninety Years of Alfa Romeo at the Monza Autodrome). The start of safety works at the Museum ‘obliged’ Portello to use the press room at the Monza Autodrome since 2010, on the weekend of the Coppa Intereuropa, in the context of which most of Portello’s driver members compete for the ‘Tutto Alfa’ trophy organised by the club. The award ceremony for the 2012 Alfa Romeo Champions is organised a few kilometres from Arese. Marco Cajani and Savina Confaloni present the trophy to 150 drivers, members and supporters of the Scuderia del Portello at the Milano Autoclassica. On the occasion of the EXPO, a special ‘Expo Scuderia del Portello Trophy’ is also created for the 2015 awards ceremony, awarded to people and companies that have contributed to the history and image of motor racing in Lombardy. The Alfa Romeo Historical Museum, which has been renovated in all its architectural and design splendour, is once again hosting the awards ceremony from 2016 on the premises of the marvellous exhibition of all the ‘Biscione’ cars that have made history up to the present day. The event, from various motoring-related publications, is attended each year by around 300 guests including sponsors, drivers, institutions, media and Scuderia del Portello members from all over the world and representatives from Clubs England, Benelux, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, Japan and Australia.
After the 2022 edition that celebrated Scuderia del Portello’s 40th anniversary at the Palazzo di Regione Lombardia, from 2023 the event will be accompanied by Italy’s largest Alfa Romeo rally organised by the Scuderia at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.