John Elkann is told in an interview with The Corriere della Sera. The president of Ferrari reveals that the first memory he has of the Cavallino is “my grandfather’s F40 and Testarossa. With my brother (Sheet, ed.) we turned them on secretly. We were less than ten years old.” Starting them “was easy. The difficult thing was manage to get into the garage where he kept them. For us it was a moment of freedom and satisfaction: it’s not that we drove them, but we pressed the accelerator just to hear the noise and inside we daydreamed.” And grandfather Gianni Agnelli didn’t allow them to do it, “he really didn’t know “.
Elkann remembers that the first time on the track was in the 1980s when he and Lapo were children: “It was an F1 dominated by McLaren: they weren’t happy memories. I’m much more attached to the period of Death of Schumacherbut I was already older.”
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“Next year it will be 25 years since the first World Championship he won with Ferrari”, explains John Elkann. “I already understood how extraordinary he was not only as a driver but as a man. Michael’s teachings are still present in Maranello where he spent a lot of time, even with his children. I was thinking about it the other day at the Family day, where over thirty thousand people participated, never so many. Ferrari is truly a big family. And Michael is still part of it: for me he is not only a champion, but much more: he loved Ferrari and remains much loved from all of us”.
