Lisboa, 17 September, 2016
To celebrate their 3rd anniversary, the Clube Scuderia Rampante in Portugal
held a gathering at the Palace Hotel Monte Real, on Saturday 17
September 2016. This is a luxury Spa Hotel located in the Monte Real
Thermal Park, which is about 5kms inland from the Atlantic coast,
approximately midway between Lisbon and Porto, just off the A17 highway
in the Leiria region. As there is no official Ferrari Club in Portugal, the idea
for the club was the brainchild of a Ferrari owner in Porto, Rui Gigante, who
decided to form a small club for Ferrari friends, to hold events, make visits
to classic car shows and to organise tours, where they could enjoy their
cars with likeminded people and their families. Once the seed was sown, he
enlisted the help of other friends, Vitor Sousa, João Madeira and Erik Ulrix,
and together they have expanded the club, so that now it has about fifty
members, and although they feel it could expand further, they feel that
around 100 members would be ideal with the present structure, as they
don’t want to lose the close ambience that it currently enjoys.
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