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1952
The Six-Days of the 1952 Games were held in Austria, from September 9th to 14th, in Bad Aussee, and proved an instant success. After rejecting more than 80 candidates, 262 riders were admitted to the starting line, of which only 260 atually took off.
The 63 German riders formed the most numerous team, followed by 55 Englishmen, 31 Italians, 29 Austrians, 23 Dutch, 20 Swedish, 17 Swiss, 12 Czechs, 7 Spaniards, 1 Danish and 1 Irish.
Three other women were regularly registered, the English Olga Kevelos, riding a Parilla, who retired on day 3, followed closely by compatriot Molly Briggs, riding a Triumph. Victorina Massano the Italian, riding a 125 Rumi, even showed up at the start.
Among the hundreds of bikes present, there were only 8 with a cylinder size exceeding 100 cc, three from Alpine NSU Fox 75cc to 99cc and 5 NSU Fox of 99cc.

The entire Alpine Club finished the trial well and in the Team Standings, proved the best of the Italian motorcycles, in 7th place, behind Jawa, CZ, BMW, BSA, CZ and Jawa.
The Austrian Alps and their hardest routes gave a difficult time to all participants and, also in this edition, there was a night test. At the end of the sixth day, after a strict selection, only 158 riders crossed the finish line.

Browsing through the pictures of the motorcycles involved in the race, it is noticeable that the transformation process went quickly.
All the bikes were specially prepared and, among the modifications to make them more competitive there were raised mudguards, the first types of wide handlebars, initially of ‘cowhorn’ type without a central reinforcing bar, high level exhausts to overcome fording, and the first, ingenious breather protection systems.
Since this was a new sport in continual evolution, the experimentation was moving forward at 360°, and not all developments were valid, as for example the original ‘rakes’ to remove the mud from the front mudguard were first mounted on the maico 250 in the Six-Days trial but were later copied by many other marques before being abandoned by everyone.
The Chech team of Zdenek Kolicek, Jaroslav Pudil, Richard Dusil, Jiri Kubes and Jan Novotny won the Trophy and their co-nationals Frantisek Blaha, Vojtech Kolar and Bohumil Kabat took the Silver Vase.
Italy was present with a mixed team, an assortment of five makes made up of the Alpino 73, Rumi 125, Parilla 150,  semi-scooter Aermacchi 125 and Guazzoni 175.
At the finish line there were only four riders, Cavalli, Grieco, Premoli and Serafini, classifiied in 6th place.
A similar result was obtained by the two teams in the Silver Vase, Italy B (Fornasari, Benzoni and Ventura) and Italy A (Romano, Riva, Strada) who were classified respectively 6th and 9th.
The best of the Italians was Ventura on an MV 125, who took the gold medal, Riva on a Rumi 125 who won the silver medal while Carissoni (Rumi), Bernardi (Puch 250) and Ravinale (Morini 125) took the bronze.

1953 Year after year, the ISDT grew in importance, and the edition of Gottwaldov-Czechoslovakian Zlin, which was held September 15 to 21, further confirmed the trend.
Thanks to the collaboration of national military forces, the 247 riders who showed up representing 18 different nations could benefit from a robust organizational apparatus. The hosts also figured well in the competition area, but had to settle for the Silver Vase, assigned to the crew consisting of Frantisek Blaha, Vojtech Kolar and Bohumil Kabat. The Trophy went, although for the last time, to the British, John V. Brittain, W.J. Stocker, S.B. Manns, P.H. Alves and B.H.M. Viney. For the occasion, the Jawa squadron was enriched by a female presence, Ewa Calewska, who managed to complete the entire test. Representing Italy are presented only six pilots, Maspes, G. Ravinale, Dietrichs Serafini, Longoni, Zanzi, N. Grieco, none of whom came to the finish.

1954In the middle of the fifties the period of the English motorcycle concluded. The bikes were already in decline and they now gave way to ever – more potent and aggressive machinery.
Rapid technical progress brought forward two stroke engines, pushing to one side the much-decorated English school whose motorcycles aged rapidly.
The British six days event in Llandrindod Wells, was dominated by Bohuslav Roucka Czechs, Jaroslav Pudil, Sasa Klimt, Jiri Kubes Sedina and Vladimir, who won the Trophy, while the Silver Vase went to the Dutch riders S. Schram, B.L. Jansema and Martin den Haan.
The Italian team in contention for the Trophy, composed of Dall'Ara Franco, Domenico Fenocchio, Ennio Longinotti, Bruno Romano and Dietrichs Serafini was ranked fourth.
A similar result, in the ranking of the vase, went to the trio of Italy A (Miro Riva, Pietro and Franco Carissoni Farnè), followed by Italy at 14th place B (Costanzo Daminelli, Alberto Gandossi, Enrico Vanoncini).
Domenico Fenocchio (Gilera 125), Bruno Romano (Rumi 125), Peter Carissoni (Rumi 125) Gian Franco Saini (Gilera 150), Constantius Daminelli (Mi-Val 125), Dietrichs Serafini (Gilera 150), Miro Riva (Rumi 125 ), Mario Fornasari (MV 175), Dario Basso (Rumi 125), captured the gold medal.
Franco Dall'Ara (Mi-Val 125), Franco Farnè (Ducati 98) and Malaguti (Ducati 98) were awarded the silver medal, while Ennio Longinotti (Mi-Val 125) and Carlo Blumer (Sterzi 150), obtained the bronze medal.

In 1954 the Campionato Italiano di Regolarità (Regularity Italian Championship trial) was established, run over a distance of 5 trials.
Starting easily with the first two tests, the "12 Hours of St. Just," (12 Ore di san Giusto) and the "Shield of the South" (Lo Scudo del Sud) it proved highly selective in the final, with the Bergamo Valleys, the Würher Trophy in Brescia, and Four Crossings of Edolo, always in the territory of Brescia.
The ranking of the Industry Teams was won by Mi-Val, while the individual single-class went to Ennio Longinotti on a Mi-Val 125 cc.


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