Luca Cordero di Montezemolo talks about “his” Ferrari of yesterday and that of today

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo talks about "his" Ferrari of yesterday and that of today

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, former president of Ferrari from the age of Michael Schumacher’s great triumphs, but also the sporting director of the Maranello house in the mid-1970s, when he guided Niki Lauda to his first world title, è was a guest at the Trento Sports Festival and spoke in full about Formula 1 yesterday and today. Here are his words reported by the Gazzetta dello Sport website.

“Enzo Ferrari called me when I was 25, I owe him if not everything, almost. He explained to me that you must always look ahead and never give up, and be more focused when you win even more than when you lose. If you lose è it’s easier to find the ability to fight back, winning you can risk saying we’re the best and stop the ”.

“Lauda? One of my closest friends. L’Avvocato Agnelli taught me curiosityà and the desire to look at the world, the world of the moment in which you live, but also what itò will be in 5 and 10 years. Schumacher? An exceptional man who as a driver bringsò the great attention to physical preparation in Formula 1, his sense of a team man, his abilityà to live every lap in the race as if it were the one for pole position”.

What about today’s Formula 1? “I like Verstappen, whom we followed since he drove in karting championships. I don’t like regulations that are too complicated. I don’t like where’è Ferrari is today, I don’t like to exult over a third place, which for me was a defeat. The drivers? I think they are the’last of the problems, the problem è the car…”.