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General Rules and Regulations for Mille Miglia 2009

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING GENERAL PROVISIONS (“DG”) THROUGH CAREFULLY, AS THEY WILL GOVERN THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF YOUR ENTRY APPLICATION, AND OF YOUR EVENTUAL ADMISSION AND PARTICIPATION IN THE MILLE MIGLIA 2009. BY ACCEPTING THE DG SPELLED OUT BELOW, YOU ARE RECOGNIZING AND ACCEPTING THE FACT THAT YOU WILL BE GOVERNED BY THEM.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH AND ACCEPT THE STATED TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU MAY CLICK ON THE “I REFUSE” BUTTON SHOWN ON YOUR SCREEN. IN THIS CASE, YOU WILL NOT BE GIVEN ACCESS TO THE ENTRY FORMS OF THE EVENT.

Art. 1 - Proposed versus Finalized Programmes: Proposed Programmes are those still being refined in terms of routing and locations, and/or in terms of the structures that will be used. The A.T.I. MAC Events hereby affirms that it will maintain the services and structures shown in the Finalized Programme. However in the unlikely event of some services becoming unavailable due to circumstances beyond its control, it reserves the right to substitute it or them with services and/or structures of equal quality.

Art. 2 - Classic Car Regularity Event: Time measurement up to a hundredth of a second, and with penalty for early or late arrival. Time measurement will be done by use of pneumatic tube pressure switches which must have print-out equipment. The terms of reference regarding regulations will be the C.S.A.I. 2009 Regulations.

Art. 3 - Cars Admitted to the Mille Miglia 2009: As per tradition, only 375 cars will be allowed to take part in the event. Seeing as the number of requests for entry greatly exceeds the allowed number of places, and in order to respect a rigorous criteria of rotation among the various models, the selection process will give precedence to the following:

  • those cars which have participated in the historic Mille Miglia Speed Race (their acceptance will depend on the quality of documentation presented)
  • those cars with sports events in their past and holding an impressive Palmares Winner’s List record
  • those cars which at some time in the past, had registered for the historic Mille Miglia Speed Race (their acceptance will depend on the quality of documentation presented)

Art. 4 - Admission to the Mille Miglia 2009 and Eventual Protests regarding Non-admission: The selection committee is the sole authority to decide who may take part. Its decisions are final. This means that no protests as to refuse entry will be taken into consideration.

Art. 5 – Entry Fees: Entry fees of € 5,775.00 including IVA (VAT) - include the following:

5.1.a The complete hospitality package for 2 people:

  • Welcome coffee at the Mille Miglia Paddock at the Brixia Expo Fiera di Brescia S.p.a. (Brescia Trade Fair Grounds)
  • Three buffet dinners
  • Welcome snack at the hotel upon arrival at the end of the first leg of the event
  • Three nights in a hotel (this includes continental breakfast)
  • Two buffet lunches
  • Invitations to the Teatro Grande di Brescia for the awards ceremony
  • Aperitivo and lunch at Brescia

5.1.b Participation kit:

  • The road-book
  • The verification sticker and event numbers
  • The passes
  • The exclusive gifts, reserved only for Mille Miglia Participants
  • The catalogue

5.1.c The services and assistance included:

  • Parking in the reserved area inside the Mille Miglia Paddock at Brixia Expo Fiera di Brescia S.p.a. (Brescia Trade Fair Grounds)
  • Security surveillance for the classic cars all night long, every night of the event, and where possible along the route, in an enclosed building
  • Shuttle service wherever necessary
  • Coordination with our staff the length of the route

Art. 6 – Additional Services:

  • Option of two single hotel rooms upon payment of an additional fee
  • Option of additional booking of hotel rooms in Brescia for the days immediately before and/or after the event
  • Option of booking a hospitality package for your support crew (technical and mechanical assistance personnel of a participating car). This will be limited to only one support crew per participating car)
  • Option of booking a hospitality package for your accompanying car crew
  • Option of purchasing only the sticker and the road-book for your support vehicle crew, leaving you to organize on your own their food and lodging
  • Option of having a saloon car at your disposition, with your own private steward/interpreter, as your accompanying car following your competing car for the whole of the event. This will provide transfer service to the airport, shuttle service, baggage transport, and other assistance to you and your crew
  • Option of parking your transportation truck and/or other support vehicles, with or without trailers, in the external fenced areas under continued security surveillance at the Mille Miglia Paddock, at the Brescia Trade Fair Grounds, Brixia Expo Fiera di Brescia S.p.a.

Art. 7 - Entry Application: Would-be participants must register on-line on the website, acquiring a log-in identity and a password. Once these have been obtained, they must then fill in the on-line Entry Form, which is divided into nine parts. This will then give them an entry registration number. The act of filling in the form for the Mille Miglia 2009 automatically makes you subject to abiding with the present General Provisions. It will be necessary to attach the following on-line:

  • your FIA Heritage Certificate and/or CSAI papers and/or FIVA Passport
  • as many documented historic newspaper stories as possible about the car, including those of previous owners
  • photographs of the car

Please check the website for information regarding the state of your car’s entry application.

Art. 8 - Discussion of Entry Fees: The Event Organization must place personnel along the route, give financial pledges to suppliers of services, sustain publicity costs to make the event known to the public, print and distribute programmes; these along with many other costs that cannot be detailed here, make up the final entry fee amount. Thus, in absolutely no case and at no time, will the Organization accept any discussion regarding renegotiation of entry fees. These fees reflect the quality, quantity, type of service and assistance on offer at the time of registration, and will not be renegotiable or refundable even in part after the event is over.

Art. 9 - Renunciation: Partial or total renunciation of participation in the event, must be given in writing by the participant to MAC Events. This must be received on or by January 31, 2009 in order to have your fees reimbursed. No reimbursement will be given to anyone who does not show up at the starting line, or who gives up during the course of the event. No reimbursement will be given for missing participation in the event due to invalid or insufficient personal, travel, or car documents. No substitution of competitors is allowed after on-line entry application has been closed. And only one member of the crew of a competing car may be substituted, and this only until the start of the administrative checks at the Mille Miglia Paddock. Accompanying cars and support vehicles may change members of the crew as long as this has been communicated within a reasonable time to the Organization and long as there are no reasons to oppose this change or other problems associated with this change.

Art. 10 – Acts of God – natural disasters – strikes – bad weather conditions – civil or military disorders – act of terrorism: These will be considered acts of forza maggiore and the Organization will be held blameless for the above or similar. Any extra expenses sustained by the participant in this case will not be reimbursed, nor will any reimbursement be given for missing service on the part of the Organization due to the above. The only possible exception to this would be in the case of damages covered by the insurance policy regarding the Mille Miglia 2009 set-up by the Organization.

Art. 11 - Protection of Privacy Law Concerning the Protection of the Reserved Nature of Personal Data: In accordance with Italian law n° 196/03 protecting the confidential nature of personal data, the name of each participant is inserted into a database whose sole proprietor is MAC Events. MAC Events or companies under its supervision may use the information contained therein to send (via post, phone, or internet) informative material about their activities, or advertising from Mille Miglia sponsors and/or partners in ATI MAC Events. In accordance with Art. 7 legge 196/03, clients, or whoever is in the database, can access their information at any time, modify it, or cancel it. If they wish to oppose any usage of their personal data, they can do so by sending a registered air mail letter to MAC Events, Corso Torino, 1/7 16129 Genoa Italy.

Art. 12 - Additional and/or Informative Communication Bulletins: The Organization reserves the right to make known to all participants, by means of the above bulletins, any eventual changes or additions to the present General Provisions and to the programmes. The bulletins will also communicate extra information and explanation for better understanding and interpretation of the above.

Art. 13 – MILLE MIGLIA trademarks, logos, industrial property rights, copyrights and services offered by third parties through the website or by links to third party websites: Be aware that none of the above is public domain. Being registered for the Mille Miglia does not confer any rights on the registered trademarks “MILLE MIGLIA”, “1000 Miglia” or its logo nor any authorization for use of the above. You also hereby vouch for your driver and/or navigator and/or crews, that no one will claim ownership, license, or use of the above. In addition none of you will use or register names, trademarks, or other distinctive signs in combination with the names or registered trademarks of the “Mille Miglia” and/or with similar easily confused graphics.
The title and the copyright of the website www.1000miglia.eu (this includes, but is not limited to images, photographs, animation, videos, audios, music, integrated texts relating to the present website and included material) are the property of MAC EVENTS as the mandatory head of A.T.I. MAC EVENTS and/or its licensees, and are protected by copyright law and international treaty arrangements. Copying and/or reproducing material contained on this site is not permitted.
Some of the services offered on this website may include links to third party websites. You have been informed and accept that A.T.I. MAC EVENTS cannot be held responsible for the examination or for the evaluation of the content or of the accuracy of this material or of the third party websites. A.T.I. MAC EVENTS cannot guarantee or confirm or have any responsibility for the material or websites of third parties, nor for other material, products or services of third parties. The links are there for your convenience. You must accept that you will not use material from these third parties in any way that can infringe or violate their rights, and that A.T.I. MAC EVENTS will not be held in any way responsible for any use in this sense on your part.

Art. 14 – Pertaining Laws: The present General Provisions are regulated and interpreted according to Italian law.

Art. 15 – Forum of Exclusive Competence: For any controversy regarding interpretation and/or execution of the present General Provisions, the competent authority will be the Court of Law of Rome, Italy (il Tribunale di Roma), to the exclusion of anyone else.

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