This year, Gatebil is raising the bar even higher and offering several exciting new features. Among other things, Norway’s coolest cultural treasure – Il Tempo Gigante – will take to the track!
And it won’t just be driving around the track. The racing car that turns 50 this year – and is best known from the Norwegian animated film “Flåklypa Grand Prix” (which also celebrates its anniversary this year) will actually set a track record at Rudskogen Motorsenter! How is this going to happen, you might ask? After all, it hasn’t won a car race since 1975? Fear not, though: Il Tempo Gigante will perform – and we guarantee that this will be a record no one will be able to beat. Ever.
No slowdown in traffic
Equipped with specially designed tires with steel inserts and seven layers of rail sealing embedded in chewy rubber alloy from the West Indies, there is no shortage of grip. The 2.8-ton, 12-cylinder engine design – with concave cylinder liners and a whole bunch of high-voltage spark plugs – is not lacking in power either. So this is one show you won’t want to miss. We’re talking speeds up to the point where one speedometer takes over where the other leaves off.
Remo Caprino, CEO of Caprino Filmsenter AS, and one of the people who made Flåklypa Grand Prix, including as production manager and one of the four script writers, will be behind the controls of the 6.5 meter long speed marvel. He’ll be there from Friday to Saturday and will be bringing lots of newly launched and grimy Flåklypa anniversary effects that you can buy where the car is on display (Pit box # 1). And would you like an autograph on one of the products? Yes, he’s not hard to ask. It remains to be seen whether Ludvig and Solan will find the time to participate. Time will show, as Ruolph Blodstrupmoen so elegantly put it.
Then drag me backwards into the birdcage! All you have to do is set aside time for what is guaranteed to be the motorsport experience of a lifetime. Gatebil has alerted the seismograph in Bergen about the weekend’s activities, so any readings above 7.8 will not come as a surprise.
Read more about Gatebil at Rudskogen 10. – 13. July here.