Choose the language.
TKART magazine Editorial | Giuseppe Mioso: world surprise
0
Exclusive Content

GIUSEPPE MIOSO
WORLD SURPRISE

TKART Staff
17 November 2016

It was 1986, I had been in IAME for 12 years, but I was such a huge motor-head that I’d hit the track every weekend. That’s how I became friends with Gianni Piazza, an esteemed tuner that had just launched the Nordikas team.

It was a nice outfit, brand new, and at first I’d lend a hand push-starting karts. But with time I felt useless hanging around just to do that, so I started helping out as a mechanic. During the week, I’d work for IAME and whenever there were races, I’d ask for permission to follow them with Nordikas, since they used our engines. That’s how I ended up in Jacksonville, Florida, to support an unknown Brazilian driver in the Formula K World Championship, Augusto “Guga” Ribas. I’d never seen him before and I never crossed paths with him again. When I first laid eyes on him, so skinny, in that unbearable heat and humidity, I didn’t think he’d amount to much. Instead, already in the first practice sessione, he was stamping very nice times.

alt
Top partner
Top partner
Continue reading the article by subscribing for only 0.96 € / week
Explore these and many other
premium contents
Go to Magazine