The Campionato Italiano Sport Prototipi will fire up its engines for the 2023 season at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari of Imola during the weekend April 21-23. The track, on the banks of the Santerno river, will host the first of six rounds of the season, the sixth that sees the Wolf GB08 Thunder racing.

The hunt will be open right from the start for the heir of the Pollini family, who continues his journey in the ACI Racing Weekend but in the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo. Thereby the spotlight will be on Davide Uboldi, currently vice-champion, who just turned 50 and is fresh and ready to take back that title he last won in 2016.

The crown will also be contested by Danny Molinaro. In fact, the 25-year-old from Cosenza is ready to jump back into the cockpit of the Wolf Racing Cars car after the championship he won in 2021, as he is back after a one-year absence in the category.

The champions at the start of the Campionato Italiano Sport Prototipi include Andrea Mosca, winner of the 2022 Master championship, and Matteo Roccadelli, last year’s Under 25 champion, at the wheel of BHK Motorsport’s entry. The British team is at its debut in the CISP with as many as three Wolf BG08 Thunder powered by Aprilia RSV4 1.0 engines, with the Indian Vignesh Kadarabad and the French Sonia Roussel at the wheel. Roussel represents the “pink quota” in the championship and will be driving for the first time for the full season, as she had already competed in 2022 in the opening round in Pergusa.

Foreign entries have been constant during the last few years in the ACI Racing Weekend and in the Campionato Italiano Sport Prototipi. The team Bad Wolves will field four cars with the Sweden brothers Emil and Linus Hellberg, together with the American Jesse Menczer and the Croatian Donald Milokanovic at the wheel.

All the way from Malesia Alister Yoong is ready and steady for the challenge, as he’s the son of the ex Formula 1 driver Alex Yoong. He will be on track with the French team of Luxury Car Racing, together with Fabio Emanuele, Stefano Attianese and Michele Fattorini.

There will also be a sporting novelty: after five years two drivers will return to share the same car during the weekends of the Campionato Italiano Sport Prototipi. Salvatore Pennisi and Piero Principi will try to replicate what Matteo Pollini was able to do, together with his cousin Giacomo, to win the title back in 2018.

The Emotion team will see, together with Mazza, other two Italians on track: Manuel Deodati, Pietro Ferri. At their side the Columbian Acosta Molina, one of the protagonists in 2022, will be back at it. Mariano Maglioccola will also be part of the contention of the Campionato Italiano Sport Prototipi title.

The schedule for the first round of the CISP will see two 25-minutes free practice sessions on Friday, April 21 at 12:10 PM and at 4:10 PM, with the Qualifying round scheduled for Saturday, April 22 at 11:05 AM. The two races of the Campionato Italiano Sport Prototipi will be streamed live on ACI Sport TV (Sky channel 228) and on its Youtube and Facebook channel, and will go underway on Saturday, April 22 at 5:30 PM and on Sunday, April 23 at 5:00 PM.