Tortona – Sunday 11 June 2023: Ferrari – after 50 years of absence – returns and wins the ninety-first edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Three drivers drove for this historic victory: Antonio Giovinazzi, James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi. And it is the foot and the profound experience of the latter that make the difference.
From the emotions of that edition of the 24 Hours, a book dedicated to him was born and will be presented this Friday, at 9pm, in the back of the Teatro Civico di Tortona, in the Cortile dell’Annunziata square, in the presence of Pier Guidi himself, the author of the volume , Emiliano Tozzi, and the journalist Alessandra Dellacà, who will moderate the meeting.
Alessandro Pier Guidi is a reference driver in the Italian endurance world whose passion was born, like many as a child, on the kart tracks.
The writer and journalist from Romagna Emiliano Tozzi decided to tell his story through the voices of the people closest to him: a acquired family where his “emotional” strength on the track comes from. The testimonies of Franco Giuliani (President of Scuderia Ferrari Club Alessandra) and his wife Claudia follow one another. By Alessandro Valeri, the friend of a lifetime and Francesco Gastaldi, journalist of “La Stampa” of Turin. By Marco Petrini and Nicola Villani, the historic Italian voices commenting on the Wec championship races, from the Eurosport television frequencies. And then Sara, much and much more than Alessandro’s simple life partner.
A context emerges within a larger and more famous one “racing family”, very emblem of a name and a brand famous in the world beyond the simple confines of competitions. Antonello Coletta and Ferdinando Cannizzo, at the head of the 499P project, in just 11 months (since the car put its wheels on the track for the first time) with the sole force of their own ideas, were able to bring the latest two-seater conceived in Maranello, obtaining that victory that is worth a season and an entire life in the world of motorsport.
When the reasons of many and a racing team become one thing. Behind an absolute name that immediately goes beyond the simple world of the automobile. Until we reach the top of the world.
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