Formula1 November 27, 2014 Nearly thirty years ago, Ferrari suddenly resigned his driver.
The driver's name was Rene Arnoux.
His expulsion never had any explanation. Neither the direct question opened his mouth on the subject.
About the subject, I think I've established the truth in 2005 and I'm not even sure if it's just complete, also I cannot prove what I supposedly know and it died there.
I fear the Mattiacci-gate, as we will call the story of the abrupt ouster from the company of the head of the racing department, after less than eight months of work, here, will end the same way.
I know you know I know, but no one talks and good night.
The following is the outcome of the investigation commisioned to me by "cloggaro Quattropalle" , which I reverent extend a warm greeting, reminding him that thanks to Obi (Uan Kenobi) at least we did not lose the derby.
1) Among Ferrari and Mattiacci a break had built and 'technically' was defined the same way as 'the end of the relationship of trust' between the investor and the manager.
2) According to authoritative sources itali-American, the disintegration of the link was generated by situations NOT attributable to the few weeks and a half spent by Mattiacci, at the top of Ferrari Grand Prix.
3) So the whole thing Alonso (and Vettel) has absolutely nothing to do with it. So much so that just Mattiacci, to the last, managed the double, complex operation. And it is significant that in the famous letter (scarlet, ie red blood) to the employees of the racing department chairman Marchionne has sperticato in praise for the couple Seb-Kimi, emphasizing the ability to make the team. Implied: someone the team did not.
4) But as Lucio Battisti sang, and already / the truth / is just one interpretation since that will not happen the other way you can approach and this will serve.
Serve? Or it must also take the following into account?
5) It was not Ecclestone to determine the funeral epilogue of the Mattiacci era. It's out of the question that Mattiacci, for his ways, did not like the old boss of F1, Todt including (had not loved each other a lot, when Marco was in Asia and Jean was the CEO of the company). But there's no way to choose the team principal of Frerrai from... the outside. Also because Marchionne, in the interests of Ferrari, will make war, to those old bosses.
6) On the other hand it is true that Mattiacci, inside Ferrari, fed more than a doubt for his approach to the subject. Earlier it was said Montezemolo was to be his 'tutor', but it seemed strange that the settlement had not asked any feed back to Domenicali, who also had been at the top for years. And even Piero Ferrari, who about racing knows a bit, Mattiacci has never seen fit to ask, if not a suggestion, an opinion.
7) Luca Marmorini, head of motorists, was ousted without Mattiacci having to accept the testimony, decided as biased. Simultaneously, the project managers are quietly remained in place.
8) The specific inexperience was reckoned at the time of appointment by Montezemolo, since no one is born knowing, to put Toto. After months, who has taken the place of the new president of Alitalia (by the way: from cars to trains to planes, to LCDM you just have to experience the thrill of bike and scooter) felt it was an unacceptable limit. Indeed, the choice of Maurizio Arrivabene goes in the opposite direction.
9) Follow the money, yet. It would be interesting to know how will impact on the resources for the racing department, the complicated turning operations that will lead Ferrari in stock market, to move from cash to more than two billion euro from Maranello to other shores. Similar strategies obviously belong to the shareholder, it is possible that the manager (of the GP) did not afree the effects. Indeed, it is almost certain.
10) That said, with the silence of the people involved, the real truth will not ever be known, unless I'll find out in 2034 but at the time no one will remember more than I do (and will not be serious) and perhaps even Ferrari (and this would be very serious).
Hope this is good enough, considering how difficult it is to translate Turrini
I don't get what he means with "..situations NOT attributable to the few weeks and a half spent by Mattiacci, at the top of Ferrari Grand Prix." what could that be?
Someone on ASBB posted this, I think it make sense:
quoteIt basically says he doubts we will ever know the full story, says it wasn't Ecclestone that got rid of Mattiacci, It wasn't the handling of the Vettel/Alonso thing and it wasn't something that happened in the last few weeks. It's just the top brass apparently lost faith in him because of his inexperience and his unwillingness to ask anybody for advice
On an unrelated note (to this particular blog) the current rumor floating around is that the "new" Ferrari president will be Andrea Agnelli (currently president of Juventus) and that the Arrivabene thing was his choice
Formula1 January 4, 2015 Nine Sundays still to be consumed without a GP and then, on March 15, the new adventure will start.
Nine instructions:
1) On Ferrari there will be a surprise in the front area (okay, a sort of surprise: so to speak).
2) Compared to the project that had been prepared, as expected, roughly six months ago, at Maranello, team Allison is making no small corrections.
3) But is excluded, unless delighted cataclysms, that Vettel and Raikkonen in Melbourne will be able to fight for something more than a decent placement.
4) The newly obtained thawing of engines will have no revolutionary effects on the hierarchies, although it was very important to have gotten it.
5) To date, the Mercedes in Australia should domain.
6) On Alonso and Button's McLaren, sensational rumors, type marked Zoff head. Some sources swear that Honda is ready to leap into hyperspace, other ensure that the Japs are as Renault and Ferrari a year ago.
7) Red Bull will not go slow.
8) With the Mercedes power unit, Lotus is a candidate for the role of outsider.
9) But Lotus, like other second-tier team, is forced to deal with survival problems.
Formula1 21 gennaio 2015 Entra Kimi nelle sale del reparto corse che conosce a memoria.
Uno dei dipendenti gli fa: aspettiamo già da otto anni con questo, dici che arriviamo a ventuno, cioè fino al 2028, come con Jody?
Sorriso affettuoso.
Eh, il senso della giornata di Yodka, il nostro Yoda finlandese alla vodka, sotto la pioggia di Maranello è tutto qua.
Usque tandem (bicicletta a due con Vettel) eccetera, per la traduzione del latinorum chiedere a Odin.
In Ferrari l'atmosfera è buona e Raikkonen, sempre popolarissimo tra le maestranze perchè la memoria conta, ne ha avuto ennesimo esempio. Invece le aspettative sono limitate e quando mi raccontano che John Elkann ha parlato dell'importanza del lavoro io rimango vagamente perplesso.
And Kimi was asked: should we wait until 2028? Formula1 January 21, 2015
Kimi enters the halls of the racing Department that he knows by heart. One of the employees goes: we waited already for eight years with this, do you say we will arrive at twenty-one, until 2028 as with Jody?
Affectionate smile.
The sense of Yodka's day, our Finnish "Yoda -ala-vodka" under the the Maranello rain ,lies all here.
Usque tandem (double bicycle with Vettel) etc., for translation of latin ask Odin.
In Ferrari the atmosphere is good and Raikkonen, always popular among workers because the memory counts, had yet another example. The expectations are limited and when I tell that John Elkann spoke of the importance of the work I remain vaguely puzzled. John Elkann who speaks of work?!?
What the...?
This is a world in which ramps up the separation between the subject and the syllables that come out of the mouths of the subjects themselves. ... I don't get it anyway
But I can explain the first part, not long ago Turrini wrote an article about when Ferrari had to wait for 21 years for another driver's Championship since Jody Scheckter, so that's why they were commenting this with Kimi.
Then there was the time at the gates of Albert Park. I imagine that I have already told, but here also pass new people and so we replicate.
I think it was 2001.
Sauber had hired a Finnish boy of whom I did not know a bat.
I landed in Melbourne and I was immediately directed to the entrance of the circuit. The Park is beautiful and also without cars on the track the atmosphere was fun.
It must have been Wednesday afternoon. I had already collected the pass.
Check in at the gates of the paddock.
There was a blond guy, shy shy, who was arguing with two marshals originate perhaps Ayers Rock or Geelong.
Having to go from there, I caught the conversation.
I am an F1 driver and I have to get into the box, the young man was muttering.
The marshals were looking and with an air of insolence responded: you, a pilot? But please! And then, where would be the pass?
The boy said that he has it forgotten in the garage of his team.
Ah, we understand, made one of the two with the star of a marshall or something like that. We understand, who are you? You are Schumacher? Hakkinen? Coulthard? Barrichello? Ah, no, not that, is a South American, you could not impersonate him even if wanting to.
I obviously had not seen a picture of the Sauber driver and I could not be of any help to the victim. That, very politely, introduced to law enforcers: 'Raikkonen, my name is Kimi Raikkonen'.
It was a delusion. Sheriffs excluded that there existed between the drivers a guy with such generality. Never heard of it, ugh, a surname with two K's after an 'i' and before an 'o', air, shoo, in Australia we ship the gatecrasher away with a kick, do not break, take a walk in the park and buy a beer.
Luckily, out of breath, came a Sauber mechanic.
Curious way to usher in a career, I thought to myself. I wrote the story in the paper, assuming that with that type, two K's between an i and one o, I would never have to deal again.
Now that this long winter without Grand Prix finally draws to a close, I will say what I expect from the 2015 season for the Red.
I do not like to fool people. Obviously I happen too often make mistakes in a prediction, but I always say what I think, thinking before about what I say / write.
Then.
Then, if Ferrari finishes the championship wich is about to start in second place in the constructors standings, here, would be a great thing.
I do not exaggerate.
Should always remember how things were a hundred days ago in Abu Dhabi.
Ninth and tenth, or so.
More downs than ups.
It 'true that in the FIA was torn the opportunity to change (a little') on the power unit, but the basic stability of the rules actually secures supremacy (deserved, because the result of investment and labor) of Mercedes.
If Ferrari finishes the championship wich is about to start in third place would be a good thing. Even better, if accompanied by a pair of partial successes.
It would still be a sign of a turnaround, then that is the goal of the new management. Convey the sense of a story that begins again.
Under the third place in the ranking of the teams, it would be a disappointment.
I am also sure that Vettel will do some good things. I respect him as always, I like his enthusiasm, I admire the generosity. It is not a big champion, at least not yet: Senna and Schumacher I knew them, Seb has yet to eat polenta and pedal, but can make it, if fate is the friend.
Raikkonen will certainly do better in 2014. I add that it takes little. It would be great if he wins, the last champion in Red, the first race in the name of the new Ferrari sharing.
I have a dream, yes.
Provided you know that the chances of winning the world are zero.
Quote: miezicat wrote in post #237http://blog.quotidiano.net/turrini/2015/03/05/la-f1-tra-i-canguri-daustralia/
quoteThe F1 between the kangaroos of Australia
Australian thoughts.
... [note: I skipped the first part]
Then there was the time at the gates of Albert Park. I imagine that I have already told, but here also pass new people and so we replicate.
I think it was 2001.
Sauber had hired a Finnish boy of whom I did not know a bat.
I landed in Melbourne and I was immediately directed to the entrance of the circuit. The Park is beautiful and also without cars on the track the atmosphere was fun.
It must have been Wednesday afternoon. I had already collected the pass.
Check in at the gates of the paddock.
There was a blond guy, shy shy, who was arguing with two marshals originate perhaps Ayers Rock or Geelong.
Having to go from there, I caught the conversation.
I am an F1 driver and I have to get into the box, the young man was muttering.
The marshals were looking and with an air of insolence responded: you, a pilot? But please! And then, where would be the pass?
The boy said that he has it forgotten in the garage of his team.
Ah, we understand, made one of the two with the star of a marshall or something like that. We understand, who are you? You are Schumacher? Hakkinen? Coulthard? Barrichello? Ah, no, not that, is a South American, you could not impersonate him even if wanting to.
I obviously had not seen a picture of the Sauber driver and I could not be of any help to the victim. That, very politely, introduced to law enforcers: 'Raikkonen, my name is Kimi Raikkonen'.
It was a delusion. Sheriffs excluded that there existed between the drivers a guy with such generality. Never heard of it, ugh, a surname with two K's after an 'i' and before an 'o', air, shoo, in Australia we ship the gatecrasher away with a kick, do not break, take a walk in the park and buy a beer.
Luckily, out of breath, came a Sauber mechanic.
Curious way to usher in a career, I thought to myself. I wrote the story in the paper, assuming that with that type, two K's between an i and one o, I would never have to deal again.
Fourteen years later, here we are.
This story is amazing.. I've never heard it like this.
I can only imagine Kimi at that time trying to get in to the paddock. I don't think he spoke very much English back in 2001..
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, which I reverent extend a warm greeting, reminding him that thanks to Obi (Uan Kenobi) at least we did not lose the derby.
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