ALEX ZANARDI

A FRIENDSHIP THAT GOES A LONG WAY BACK

Here is a passage from the letter that Alex Zanardi wrote after the launch of the chassis line named after him. Here we find out how the former driver met Chiesa Corse owners Otello and Dino Chiesa, who years after this fateful encounter brought his name back to karting.

“... We’d found out that there was going to be a national race event that weekend in Jesolo and we felt the times were ripe to attempt an “away match”. Actually, it was my father - our improvised team’s manager, one and only mechanic, test driver, timing counselor, you name it - who decided we could make it [...]

We started to do laps, the track was fantastic. At first, the “locals” were spanking us, but by the end of the day the times my mates and I were setting had become quite competitive.