CSAI

(Italian Motor Sports Commission)

President: Angelo Sticchi Damiani

Via Solferino, 32 - 00185 Rome

Phone +39 0649982805- +39.0649982806 – Fax +39 064940961

Press office: Phone +39 0649982817- + 39.0649982821- Fax + 39 064940961

www.csai.aci.it

History of ACI 

Costitution

The Automobile Club d'Italia (ACI) originates from the constitution, in 1898, of the Turin Automobile Club. The following year, the Turin Club assumed the name of Club Automobilisti d'Italia (Italian Motorists Club). The Unione Automobilistica Italiana (UAI or Italian Motorists Association) was established in February 1904, at a meeting held in Turin. Finally, the National body known as the Automobile Club d'Italia was established on 25 January 1905.

The ACI became a non-profit organisation by decree no. 2481 of 14/11/1926, and the head offices were transferred to Rome in 1928 when it changed its name to Reale Automobile Club d'Italia (Royal Automobile Club of Italy). The more specifically sporting activities were, until the war, assigned to the Federazione Automobilistica Sportiva Italiana (FASI or Italian Motor Sports Federation). Following the constitution of the Italian Republic, it returned to its original name, Automobile Club d'Italia. The sports activities within its scope are now delegated to the Commissione Sportiva Automobilistica Italiana (CSAI or Italian Motor Sports Commission). The Federation is listed in Law no. 426 of 16/2/1942 (as FASI).

Denomination

Unione Automobilistica Italiana (UAI or “Italian Motoring Association”) in 1904; Automobile Club d'Italia (ACI) from 1905 to 1928; Reale Automobile Club d'Italia (RACI) from 1928 to 1934; Reale Automobile Circolo d'Italia from 14 November 1934 (Royal Decree no. 2323) to 6 November 1944; and back to Reale Automobile Club d'Italia from 1944 and finally, from 1946, Automobile Club d'Italia.

Federal Office:

1905-1926 Turin; 1926 Rome.

First National Championships

1927.

Presidents

1898 - 1902 Earl Roberto Biscaretti di Ruffia

1902 - 1904 Marquis Emanuele Cacherano di Bricherasio

1904 - 1905 Marquis Alfonso Ferrero di Ventimiglia

1905 - 1906 Sen. Marchese Lorenzo Ginori Lisci

1906 - 1908 Sen. Principe Piero Strozzi

1908 - 1920 Marquis Alfonso Ferrero di Ventimiglia

1921 - 1926 Sen. Teofilo Rossi di Montelera

1926 - 1930 Sen. Silvio Cresci

1931 - 1932 Baron Giuseppe Federici di Abriola

1932 - 1934 Hon. Pietro Parisio (commissioner)

1934 - 1935 S.A.R. Aimone di Savoia, duca di Spoleto

1935 - 1936 Hon. Gaetano Postiglione

1936 - 1943 Conte Alberto Bonacossa

1944 Giuseppe Patruno (commissioner)

1944 - 1951 Prince Filippo Caracciolo di Castagneto (regent Coni)

1951 -1965 Prince Filippo Caracciolo di Castagneto 

1965 -1969 Luigi Bertett

1969 -1972 Gustavo Marinucci

1972 -1982 Filippo Carpi de Resmini

1982 - 2000 Rosario Alessi

2000 - 2007 Franco Lucchesi

2008 - 2011 Enrico Gelpi

2011 - Angelo Sticchi Damiani

Secretaries

1926 -1934 Paolo Sommi Picenardi

1935 -1936 Luigi Maggioni

1936 -1944 Ivo Magnani

1944 Antonio Cataldo

1944 -1946 Giovanni Ricci

1947 -1950 Giovanni Canestrini

1950 -1974 Francesco Mungo

1975 - 2003 Giuseppe Spizuoco

2003 - 2016 Ascanio Rozera

2016 - 2018 Francesco Tufarelli 

2019 - 2024 Gerardo Capozza

2024 - Vincenzo Leanza