he Scuderia Triumph-SC team is very busy to prepare the European 600 Superstock Championship start next April 5 in Valencia. The Italian squad made a two-day test on Mugello Circuit with the 675 Daytona in Superstock configuration.

Talented British riders Tom Grant and Robbie Stewart, which  will campaign the Scuderia Triumph- SC 675 in the 2008 European Superstock 600 series, could make a good job, despite the amateur’s traffic which crowded the track, also thank the splendid sunshine week end. Both covered about hundred laps of the undulating Tuscany’s track, Tom Grant recorded his fastest lap in 2’01”2, rather impressive looking at the traffic along the track. Good test for Robbie Stewart too, practically at his debut on this demanding track. The young Scot showed a better confidence with the bike, ending up with a fastest lap in 2’03”3.

Now the test time is finished and next week in Valencia would be no more time to play for the propaedeutic championship of talented young guns.

A very pleasant initiative has been recorded at Mugello to remember the great significance that Triumph brand have had in the motorcycling sport history in Florence and the great successes scored by the team of the local dealer Virgilio Zan during the years Ten of the past century, with the victories of Porretta’s Silver Cup, the Thousand Kilometres of Po River Circuit, The Cup of Consuma, monopolized for three years in a row, the Umbria-Tuscany Cup and countless number of successes in minor events thanks a poker of riders as  Ambrogio Zan, son of the manager, Ugo Fenci, the giant  Damiano Rogai and count Gastone Brilli-Peri, who later winning at Monza in 1925 at the wheels of the legendary P2, allowed Alfa Romeo to capture the first ever World Cars Manufacturers Award.

Close to the new 675 Daytona engaged in the World Championship Challenge did reach the Mugello circuit three historical motorcycles kindly arranged by the members of Veteran Moto Club of Florence, which put in evidence the continuity of the sporting engagement by Triumph in the motorcycle arena, which exceed a century of life, always under the mot “We race what we sell.”.

Photo: from left to right: the 550cc year 1914, the 500cc year 1915, the 500cc four ohv “Ricardo” year 1925, the 675 Supersport, the two 675 Superstock bikes with Robbie Stewart and  Tom Grant (wearing a white hat)