Another article from Autosprint that made me loose it is make a comparison between Charles and Tazio Nuvolari and putting as a title “a century later, different heroism but same heart”
As always, translation under the cut, every mistake is my fault, support my madness in translating every praise Italian newspapers make about Charles
(I know there’s a mess in the first half I’m trying to fix it but tumblr is messing it up all over again)
After a century, with new cars, different circuits, another technology, there’s no steering wheel kept high in the air by a driver’s hand. No, this is the magic of Charles Leclerc that in Spielberg make us feel like we’re not in Styria anymore but in Tigullio, […] when the “Mantovano volante” won driving a car with almost no wheels and even without a seat, “gift” of a bad excursion off track. It was the 12th April of 1923 and it was definitely another motorsport, the one where the impossibility became reality thanks to a wreck […]
After a century, with new cars, different circuits, another technology, there’s no steering wheel kept high in the air by a driver’s hand. No, this is the magic of Charles Leclerc that in Spielberg make us feel like we’re not in Styria anymore but in Tigullio, […] when the “Mantovano volante” won driving a car with almost no wheels and even without a seat, “gift” of a bad excursion off track. It was the 12th April of 1923 and it was definitely another motorsport, the one where the impossibility became reality thanks to a wreck […]
An ancient hero in the modern era
An ancient hero in the modern era
But in the modern era, where everything is under control thanks to the computers, telemetry and remote garages, and when the engine of your twin car just blown without a reason, it’s not easy keep your nerves steady. Because, even with a perfect car, the fear of having another blown engine is very real. So, with everything that comes to your mind, it’s not a big deal the throttle that “is not going up”, that keeps the engine at half regime even when it should stop while breaking a lot. It’s not a big deal, when you’re in a ring burning of support for your main opponent, following you at few seconds that can become closer at any moment. It’s not a big deal, right? Easy to say, when in the box Mattia Binotto stops watching the race and does that only thing that you can do in a scenario like that: praying . And it’s good that we’ve known this at the end (of the race), because even the bravery that comes from the fear can disappear like the other Ferrari engine.
Easy to say “it’s not a big deal”, especially if you say it after the race ended. But, in the modern rodeo of F1, warriors like this are needed. It’s the added value in a motorsport festival that makes you discover again how it feels with your heart pounding in a field of emotions where (some time ago) the biggest feeling was boredom, the only adrenaline moment was the pit stop. Here no, here Tazio Leclerc, made every heart pounding overtaking three time the home hero, Max Verstappen.
[…] We should let Charles’s eyes speak when he’s not in Tazio’s shoes anymore, and be a driver that wants to become a little legend a decade after: “I’m really happy because after the last five races without a podium I wanted to show what I’m capable of. I’m always trying to be positive, but it was so hard. […]”
A champion shows the attitude (of a champion) even before becoming one.
Those champions between sweetness and ruthless
[…] Between Castel d’Ario, Nuvolari’s home, and Montecarlo, Leclerc’s home, there are almost 300km, like a GP distance. Between Tazio and Charles there’s a century of history that in those last 3 laps it merged in only one figure, with those magic tricks made with two feet and two pedals that went everywhere like the broken steering wheel that only the vivid madness of a star player could have thought of change with a wrench. It’s in the small details the difference between a great driver and a champion. We don’t know yet if Charles will become world champion, we shouldn’t even call him Predestinato, because in any sport no Usain becomes a Bolt by chance or divine intervention. No, no destiny involved, because behind a champion there’s always hard work that overcomes the talent. And in that picture of the Austrian podium, that kid in red that smiles between two world champions there’s something more valuable than a best wish. Even more than those last laps where Charles became Tazio for a while. A century later, at the end, the good thing of a great undertaking is still making it look like a normal thing.
Stefano Tamburini
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Obeležena godišnjica čuvene kružne trke oko Kalemegdana
Beograd je ovog vikenda domaćin ljubiteljima i vozačima starih automobile, pre svega onima koji su stigli iz Italije sa svojim četverotočkašima, a pridružili su im se vlasnici motora iz Slovenije, kao i vlasnici oldtajmera iz Srbije. Priređeno je više događaja na kojima su se mogli videti ovi automobili i motori, Ambasada Italije je u subotu veče priredila prijem, a u nedelju prepodne organizovana je glavni događaj - revijalna auto-moto trka “Beogradski Grand Pri 2023 - kružna trka oko Kalemegdana”...Ovom trkom obnovljeno je sećanje na istorijsku trku Grand Pri, prethodnicu današnje Formule 1, održanu u prestonici tadašnje Kraljevine Jugoslavije, 3. septembra 1939. godine. Pre tačno 84 godine, prestižnu međunarodnu automobilsku i motociklističku trku oko Kalemegdana pratilo je oko 100.000 gledalaca. Ovaj istorijski događaj održan je pod pokroviteljstvom jugoslovenskog kralja Petra II i u njemu su učestvovala neka od najvećih svetskih imena tadašnjeg auto-moto sporta. Pobedu je odneo legendarni italijanski vozač Tacio Nuvolari, koji je tada poslednji put osvojio Veliku nagradu (Grand Prix) u karijeri. Za Italijane je baš zbog toga važno da se obeležava godišnjica ove trke, a vrlo interesantno je da se u muzeju vozača Nuvolarija čuva pehar napisan ćirilicom, koji mu je uručen prilikom pobede 1939. godine.
Foto: Momčilo Karan
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At the Grand Prix des Nations
This wonderful color image was taken on July 21, 1946 in Geneva at the Grand Prix des Nations. It is one of those ever so rare color images from the early postwar years. The driver is the wealthy Swiss sportsman Emmanuel de Graffenried at the wheel of a Maserati 4CL entered for him by Enrico Platé. Platé was born in Italy but after the war took Swiss citizenship and ran his team primarily for…
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