A brief but intense reflection by Italian journalist and Ferrari insider Leo Turrini, who, faced with questions from Ferrari fans about the disappointing performance of the Prancing Horse in Formula 1, responds with a comparison to one of the most successful cycles in the Maranello team’s history.
The journalist, who had already addressed the same topic in the recent past, implies that we should give the ‘new’ boss Frederic Vasseur time to work. After all, one of his illustrious predecessors took more than a year to win his first Grand Prix…
Leo Turrini’s comments:
“To those who ask me how long Fred Vasseur will enjoy immunity, I will repeat something I have already written,” says Leo Turrini on his quotidiano.net blog. He then expresses the concept by invoking a name that made Ferrari’s history: “Jean Todt, the fierce Penguin, took more than a year to win his first Grand Prix. 1993=2023: the Thirty Years’ War.”
It goes without saying that the Maranello team must now focus on the future, not hesitating to show signs of improvement in the rest of the 2023 Formula One season. Having said that, this weekend, at the 7.004-kilometre Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Stavelot, the last Grand Prix before the summer break will take place.
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The Belgian race evokes strong memories for the Italian journalist: “In decades of racing wanderings, it is the place I loved the most. I think of the Ardennes and I see a young Schumi. I am grateful to journalism and history for allowing me to see Michael drive in that place there. And I don’t forget a lap on a road Honda. I was in the passenger seat. Ayrton was behind the wheel. Again, Kimi. Raikkonen on that circuit was divine anger.” – he added.
“If only I could be there again, together with the three of them. Because, in the end, it’s true: it was worth getting lost, because it was too beautiful to meet them,” Leo Turrini concludes.
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