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Last week the Fiat Punto Club of Hungary
held their annual big meeting in Kaposvár and its
picturesque surrounding areas. The Punto Club was actually
formed in Kaposvár three years ago and has ever since
experienced rapid growth. Nowadays the club has more than
600 members spread all over the country.
The founders organize a major meeting every summer, each
year choosing a different town in Hungary. Last week fans of
Punto met for third time. As this gathering was truly
national the Punto Club organized a common drive open to all
participants from Budapest to Kaposvár. Each time the convoy
arrived at the designated meeting points more and more
Puntos joined to the line-up. The train eventually consisted
of more than fifty Puntos by the time it arrived in
Kaposvár, but amongst these little cars could be recognised
a smattering of other Italian cars.
As
the caravan drove along the delightful surroundings of the
stunning Lake Balaton, and well before we reached our
destination for the day, we had lost our way! However, a
Punto quickly sprang into view and so we followed it 'home'.
So we carried out the orientation trial (organized for the
second day) on the first day, and luckily of course we
didn’t miss the lunch stop!
After a pleasant lunch the column of
Puntos, including examples from the very earliest Series I
to the new Grande Punto, drove all together
to Kaposújlak Airport, when the real programme of the day
got underway. All of the cars were formed up into a line and
the guests began to fill in the voting papers for the “Punto
Beauty-Contest”. Of course there were different categories
for the Punto I, Punto II and Grande Punto, and organisers
also made differentiations between cars in original and
tuned specification. Meanwhile - commanded by the organisers
- the owners began to position the cars for air-photographs.
Members of the club laid out the word PUNTO using by their
cars to form the letters, and as it clearly visible on the
aerial photo this task was successful. The programme then continued with the
skill trial. Fortunately the weather was sunny although a
bit windy, but wasn’t raining which was good for the race.
Using the runway the organizers started the speed-trial.
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