TONIO LIUZZI

CRAZY ABOUT KARTING

A wonderful adventure that began as a love at first sight event: "I started for fun: a classmate of mine had a go-kart and invited me to drive it for a few laps. I fell in love immediately and without reservations, "I was driving" inside my home as well, accelerating at the bottom of the corridors. I often slept with my helmet next to the bed and when I won the Italian 60cc, in my second year, I kept the engine on the bedside table the night before the race.
Then, at 14 years of age, I became an official CRG driver: when I was young, the team I started with used their own material. I always felt good this way and so I always raced, and won, with CRG".

Who do you think you have to thank for your career?
Without doubt my father (Giuseppe, editor's note), who really helped me. Not so much from a financial point of view as from a moral and physical one. He really made an effort: he worked all week as a merchant, from Monday to Friday throughout Italy. But wherever he was, Milan, Bologna, Turin ... he left, came to pick me up and we would go and race in Parma, Lonato ... wherever there was a race.
In addition to my Dad, I have to thank CRG, Mr. Tinini (owner of CRG and Tinini Group, editor's note) and all the staff, who always supported me in everything since I was 14 years old. I was one of the youngest official kart drivers, with them, and then continued our relationship until the 2001 world championship.