Postmodern Pentathlon
32 CARS · 5 DISCIPLINES · 1 CHAMPION
ENTRIES OPEN SOON
32 cars enter. One walks away with the keys to a 911 GT3 RS.
The Idea
In 708 BC, the Greeks invented the pentathlon to find one thing: the most complete competitor. Not the fastest. Not the strongest. The one who could do everything. That idea is 2,700 years old and still unsolved. Pantheon RS is its answer for the postmodern athlete — nine days, five disciplines, thirty-two cars, one champion. This is not a concours. It is not a rally tour. It has elements of both — and it is neither. Every stage is scored. Every discipline counts.
The Schedule
The rally begins in Innsbruck Altstadt at dawn. West up the Inn valley to lunch at St Moritz, then the Maloja descent into the Italian lakes — Milan arrives at sunset.
Thirty-two competitors take the Temple of Speed at 8am — timed sprints in GT3 Cup cars, pure lap time, no team advantage. The leaderboard is real after today.
Morning at Italy's most illustrious fencing hall — white jackets, Olympic maestros, single-elimination bouts. By afternoon the convoy descends to the Mediterranean, arriving at the Maybourne as the sun sets over Monaco.
Up the Grande Corniche to 900 metres above Monaco, where the Monte-Carlo Golf Club has stood since 1911. From the 5th tee you can see three countries. Evening returns for the first splendour night of the rally.
Paul Ricard in golden hour — blue and red tarmac, the Mistral straight, 32 cars going sideways into the sunset. A judged drift stage, the most theatrical of the rally. Luberon receives the convoy at dusk.
A rest from driving. Morning at leisure in the early-June Luberon, then clay pigeon across five stations — seventy-five birds each. The discipline that rewards a still mind, useful preparation for the poker finale.
The longest drive. Provence gives way to Atlantic green as the Pyrenean foothills rise. Biarritz arrives as a proper destination — the imperial villa Napoleon III built for Empress Eugénie — for the last formal dinner before Donostia.
Fifty kilometres of coast road from Biarritz, La Concha bay opening ahead. The final competitive discipline is a timed climb over Jaizkibel — the cliff road above the Cantabrian Sea. Balance of Performance levels the cars so it's the driver, not the machine, that decides the climb. After the results, the leaderboard is fixed and the chips are counted.
Everything across nine days converts to chips on this table. The leader has a target on their back; last place has nothing to lose. The champion of Edition I is decided at sea, on the last hand of the night.
The last-place prize is better than most people's holidays.