On May 31 and June 1, it was held in the international circuit of Zuera for the 15th time the 24h of Vespas and Lambrettas, the “Pinasco VTR24H” (Vespa The Resistance 24h), organized by the Team Vespa Barcelona. Surely, the most important resistance career in the world of Vespas.
This career has from the first editions with the international presence of the best teams from Germany, Italy, France, Portugal, England, Ireland, Switzerland and Spain. Even e. Uu. And Brazil on one occasion!, They dispute the honor of winning them year after year in this very hard resistance career.
Motorcycles with astronomical budgets, and powers that sometimes come to quintuple the serial power of the humble Vespa. 13,000 rpm, 45 hp, And times by return of Supermotard, they are truly impressive figures that can be seen in the leading equipment.
To the natural hardness of the Vespa The Resistance 24H, this 2025 was added asphyxiating heat, which had many teams in candle, which with penalty entered into problems with problems due to the enormous fatigue that those air -refrigerated engines were suffering.
Vespa The Resistance 24h: 4 categories where to give everything
Within the Vespa The Resistance 24h there are four categories, derived from the two large types of Vespa: the Smallframe (spring type, pk, up to 125 cc in origin) and Las Largeframe (PX, the typical postmark, up to 200 cc in origin) and of these two large types, a variant with simple preparation, (Smallframe proto and long -series), and a variant of free preparation (SP1- Smallframe and Largeframe Proto Superprototype).
Pinasco, the sponsor of the Vespa The Resistance 24H, went as always to this edition with his SP1 and his LP, and was dominating the general classification with his SP1 until practically at the end of the race, where unfortunately a mechanical problem forced them to retire. The winner of the SP1 category was the Franco-Germanic team TD Customs, with an incredible and practically without boxing.
The winner of the category Smallframe Proto It was the Aragonese team Jeda Picticas again, which after all these years accumulates an impressive palm tree. In the Largeframe Series category, the Spanish team from Barcelona “Team Castrol By Polini” with its Dorsal 87 and its pilots Javi Sagalés, Raúl Capdevila, Vito Valera, Jose Luis Durán and Ignasi Blachart, without further fault than the breakage of the front shock and some fall.
In Largeframe Proto, the Team Castrol By Poliniwithout falls, with its mimada 86 and its pilots Curro Giner, Miki Viñola, Cristian Marín and Ivo Viscasillas. Since 2024, and coinciding with his 10th participation in the race, the usual of these Team Castrol competitions, led by Ivo and Cristian, began his official collaboration with Polini.
The Vespa The Resistance 24H is a real quality and durability test of the different components, and this motorcycle equips all the variety of special pieces that Poly offers for the PX: Polyini complete front train (bar, gas shock absorber, brake pump and clamp 4 pistons, floating disc) Electronic ignition polini, the new ht race clut transmission.
The good quality of the ensemble, mixed (and never better) with Castrol lubricants, conferred one more year a huge reliability to this Vespa of almost 30 hp, which dominated its position of category practically the entire race and ended in the fifth place of the general, reserved positions, almost exclusively, to the Smallframe, and in an edition where 25% of the grid was removed by mechanical problems.
If you want to spend a different weekend, seeing Vespas that sound like Grand Prize motorcycles being piloted to the limit, and getting out of there with 2T aroma, we recommend that you do not miss the next edition of the Vespa The Resistance 24h.
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