edition nº1 23, 24 & 25 SEPTEMBER 2015

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1 edition nº1 23, 24 & 25 SEPTEMBER 2015

2 CAPRICES EVENTS Event agency for women, by women Caprices Events Agency is designed to be the specialist when it comes to details. Hosting, embellishing, delivering a message through an event, bringing people together, communicating, charming, creating the event that looks just like you. Caprices Events Agency works like a hive: if both queen bees have accumulated fifteen years of experiences, they now have the connections and global vision to tailor the perfect team to serve their client s event, whether private or institutional.

3 THE CAPRICES RALLY EVENT the caprices rally,a certain notion of essential unnecessary The Caprices Rally is a journey during which adventures show a feminine character. Between mounts and valleys, tight bends and climbing, everything becomes luxury: calm and sensual delight, poetry and uncluttered lines. Normal sense of time is now tuned by the movements of the rev counter. Refinement is the Caprices heritage: the freedom to breathe the healthy mountain air, the feeling of impersonating a contemporary Heidi, a valaisan village s path, going downhill on a small route of the canton of Vaud where the lake or the mountains will send our teams in a poetic experience. The Caprices Rally or the first-ever Swiss-made feminine rally in classic cars. An elegant rally, tinged with a Helvetian punctuality and carefully designed: the most beautiful rally and the first-ever feminine one on the Swiss clock.

4 WOMEN OF TASTE The Caprices Rally is the experience of a woman of taste, an active woman; influent, inspiring and sophisticated, ready to go through a challenge and live an adventure. The team member of the Caprices Rally is a banker, lawyer, CEO of her own company, blogger, stay at home mom, actress, singer, socialite, commentator; she works in fashion, finance, art, sports, culture, politics. She is a woman like you, like us, feeling great in her own time and skin and who likes to give in for a small caprice. Wherever she goes, she leaves her marks. We never quite now how or why, but she is the one who will start a trend or bring back one that was forgotten, she has her personality, her natural chic. active influential inspiring resourceful

5 CATCH ME IF YOU CAN THE RUN Caprices Rally, an elegant TSD rally The exclusivity of the Caprices Rally and its inviting course enables the teams to discover unknown caprices. The Caprices Rally adventure is set to be entertaining, full of charm and aiming towards the discovery of uncharted corners of Vaud, Valais and Bern cantons. Our female contestants will be ambassadors shall embrace an outstanding elegance and fuel their passion for exceptional automobiles. The challenge The Caprices Rally is a time-distancespeed (TSD) rally. The contestants will work towards achieving a ideal time for each part of the course. Everyday, an average speed is going to be attributed to the teams: the selection criteria will emphasize upon navigation and in consideration of the recommended average speed. The course The everyday course will not be longer than 200 km in order to grasp every detail of the Helvetic scenery, which in term will allow the teams to cruise the picturesque landscape. The start of the rally will take place in the morning of Wednesday the 23th of September 2015 at the Leman Lake, and will end on the evening of Friday 25th with a cocktail on the shores of Lac Leman. Management has the right to modify or cancel parts of the course or the rally altogether due to bad weather conditions in order to ensure comfort and security for the contestants. Management also has the right to cancel the rally if the number of teams is inferior to 10.

6 THE COURSE

7 The detailed course will be revealed in the upcoming weeks, depending upon the confirmation of some elements pertaining to our partners. Vaud Interlaken Pays d en Haut Montreux

8 THE CAPRICES OF THE RALLY AND ITS PROGRAM The program is considered as follows: Wednesday the 23th of September Welcoming ceremony, breakfast Briefing, preparation of the cars, distribution of the road books, start Driving and stopover (tour and lunch) Arrival around 5pm, leisure activities, debriefing on the day, announcement of the rankings of the day, cocktail and dinner. Thursday the 24th of September Briefing, Breakfast Driving and stopovers Lunch Driving and stopovers Arrival around 5 pm, leisure activities, debriefing on the day, announcement of the rankings of the day, cocktail and dinner. Friday the 25th of September Activities in the morning, start at the end of the morning Driving and stopovers to reach the Leman shores. Welcoming ceremony of the sponsors and relatives at the end of the afternoon, pictures, time to dress up. Cocktail to start the festivities Closing Gala dinner of Caprices Rally, First Edition, distribution of the trophies and thank-you speech. The teams will be free to go by the end of the evening. During the closing dinner, the organizing committee will hand out its prizes considering various criteria, including the 1rst, 2nd and 3rd place in consistency, refinement and elegance.

9 The different tours that will take place during the course may be a tour of a cuckoo clock workshop, a traditional cheese factory, an artisanal watchmaker, the discovery of a furrier, the factory of mountain shoes, a distillery. Our teams will be surprised by the daily attentions they will receive: gifts, tastings a rhythm that will make this adventure an enchantment. Despite an expected anticyclone we advise our team members to bring along shawls, and small gloves for the evening and hats to avoid sunburns in the mountains. What car for which category? For this first edition, the eligible automobiles have to be authentic from the beginning of the nineteen hundreds until If some of our teams wish to throw a caprice, the organizing committee will be happy to consider the case.

10 THE COMMITMENT OF OUR TEAMS The commitments are taken in consideration in order of arrivals, subject to a corresponding image of the ethics of Caprices Rally and within a limit of 30 registered vehicles. Our commitment alongside you Your commitment fees include: The general organization of the event The supervision of logistics Minimum mechanical assistance (1 vehicle) 4 and 5 star hotels for 2 nights in a double bedroom Every meal for 2 persons (from the 23th to the 25th of September 2015) Luggage transportation A video production, a press service, a photographer The mandatory insurance guaranteeing civil responsibility of the contestants and the organization of a memorable TSD rally Surveillance of the parking at night Stickers with the number of the team of the doors and wings of the vehicles, 2 rally plates, a road book, a logbook Gifts for every team The commitment fees to not include The gas of the vehicle The round-trip fees (contestant and vehicle) The car and team member insurance

11 What we are expecting from you: An insured vehicle which corresponds to our selection criteria A medical certificate approving on the ability to drive for the pilots. A form of non-liability and waiver of image rights will be given to you in order to let us wisely use the photos and videos. The teams sponsors If the teams wish to use a sponsor, they must validate this said sponsor with the organizing committee of Caprices Rally in order to ensure that the latter corresponds with the image of the rally. There are only 3 locations on the vehicles attributed to the partners of Caprices Rally; they shall not be personalized: 2 round shaped stickers on the front lateral doors (50 cm diameter), on the hood with the number of the team and 2 rectangles (15x45 cm) on the back lateral wings for a good visibility of the sponsors. The rest of the vehicle is therefore available for the visibility of the teams sponsor, as long as it does not alter the nature of the vehicle and does not block the visibility of the driver and its teammate. Technical support on the course A team of technicians in charge of the assistance of the vehicles will be provided during the entire course, in partnership with ACS. Composed with a vehicle of mechanics, this technical support is included in the commitment fees. In the event of a breakdown during the course, the technicians will be there to intervene in less than an hour. If the delay is longer, we will offer the team to transport the vehicle to the closest garage. Team number and main partners logos Rally s plate 8 Partners logos This technical support will also be available for the contestants during the stopovers. If some teams wish to be accompanied by their own team of technicians, their presence must be approved by the organizing committee of Caprices Rally and organized with the latter. the registration sheets and terms and conditions or cancelation conditions are sent for each request of registration.

12 FOUNDER PRESENTATION ALEXANDRA BONZON co-founder Some say that she is energetic, perhaps a little too much. Her childhood dream was to become a chauffeur or a taxi-driver. Control the machine, be a reference for others when it comes to discovering the next unconventional place this is her everyday life. After 10 years of experience in public relations and consulting (Altedia etc etc etc), Alexandra comes back home in Switzerland and starts developing Caprices Events, along with Nathalie, including a new dreamlike event, honoring cars, Switzerland, women, and the development of an efficient new network... The Caprices Rally. Contact : +41 (0) alexandra@rallyedescaprices.ch NATHALIE LEPOUTRE co-founder At school, Nathalie bargained marbles for balls from damaged ball bearings that were stored in her parents garage. For her, automobiles run in the family. After 20 years of experience, initially in the high fashion and luxury industry, and the creation, along with her husband, of a catering company, working closely with Ladurée ; Nathalie moves in with her family on the shores of Leman to get a change of atmosphere. It is when she met Alexandra, that the idea of Caprices Events and, specifically, the first feminine Swiss rally emerged. Contact : +41 (0) nathalie@rallyedescaprices.ch