The myth of Enzo Ferrari lives again thanks to Dino Zoli
The myth of Enzo Ferrari lives again thanks to Dino Zoli
The appointment is for December 4, at 5 p.m. in Forlì, and it is one not to be missed and not only for motoring enthusiasts. On that occasion, in fact, DZ Engineering, has gathered around the table of the talk “The Drake. Stories of circuits, races and icons” some of the most prestigious experts and popularizers of the world of Motorsport, ready to tell, as the title of the event states, some of the most significant and curious pages of racing history, against the background of the extraordinary figure of Enzo Ferrari.
In the headquarters of the Dino Zoli Foundation in Viale Bologna 288, journalists Pino Allievi and Leo Turrini, Gian Carlo Minardi, founder of the famous Team Minardi and chairman of the Board of Directors of “Formula Imola,” the company that manages the “Enzo and Dino Ferrari” Autodrome in Imola, and Eng. Luigi Mazzola, for more than 20 years in Ferrari Gestione Corse with various research and development roles, will be the protagonists of the eagerly awaited conference. And, again, photographer Flavio Mazzi, whose photos were the subject of an exhibition, organized by DZ Engineering and Fondazione Dino Zoli, in Singapore during the F1 Grand Prix, and cartoonist Giorgio “Matitaccia” Serra. Moderated by sports journalist Michele Mambelli, who has also been the voice of the Ferrari Challenge for years, they will be joined by the host, Dino Zoli, an entrepreneur who, thanks to a good dose of courage and resourcefulness, has been able to lead the Dino Zoli Group to become a global corporate benchmark in 50 years, and Roberto Grilli, general manager of DZ Engineering.
“I have always made art and culture, the promotion of young people and the territory, attention to the environment and social issues, together with research and innovation, the hallmarks of our group’s corporate culture,” Dino Zoli says. “The one we will celebrate on December 4 is one of the significant events we wanted to organize to embrace the way we have been for 50 years and to exalt our passion for racing cars and for the Ferrari world in particular. It is a passion that has led us in recent years not only to build and manage the entire lighting system of the Singapore circuit with our corporate division DZ Engineering, but also to surround ourselves with some iconic beauties of the motorsport circus, starting with Michael Schumacher’s 2001 Ferrari F1 car to Enzo Ferrari’s “gabardina,” which will be on display at the Foundation on this occasion. Thanks to the prestigious parterre of guests we have involved and whom I thank for their gracious willingness to honor us, we will be able to take a close, knowledgeable and exciting look at many aspects of the racing world and everything that revolves around it.”
Certainly there will be no shortage of topics and themes to explore in depth at the Dino Zoli Foundation, which as mentioned will be further enhanced by the display also of the 2001 Ferrari F1 car with which Michael Schumacher, the outgoing world champion, was confirmed as world champion by winning nine victories that contributed decisively to winning the constructors’ title as well. Another historical relic on display in Forlì will be Enzo Ferrari’s gabardine, the overcoat from which the Drake rarely parted, dated 1947, kept in an attic in San Venanzio for more than 50 years and recently purchased at auction by Dino Zoli.
Last but not least, headlights turned on, and not only in a symbolic sense, on the Marina Bay circuit, which since the first night edition of the Singapore GP in 2008 has been illuminated thanks to DZ Engineering, a division belonging to DZ Group Holding, one of the few companies on the international scene capable of designing and developing all the technological systems required on circuits of any category and grade. And it was precisely DZ Engineering, together with the Zoli Foundation, that wanted to tell the story of the evolution of the Singapore GP through the images of Flavio Mazzi, collected in a photographic exhibition “Twelve Years of Lights and Racing in the Lion City,” which after being exhibited at The Arts House and also at the Italian Embassy in Singapore on the occasion of the last Grand Prix, will be proposed at the Foundation’s headquarters, with inauguration on December 4. Curated by Nadia Stefanel, director of the Dino Zoli Foundation, the exhibition tells and illustrates, through images divided into panels, the exciting story of the first Formula 1 night race from 2008 to 2019. The author is Modenese photographer Flavio Mazzi, who over four decades has become one of the best-known photographers in the world of Formula 1. His archive of images includes more than 450 Formula 1 Grand Prix, team launches, exclusive events and many other racing details. The board of DZ Engineering chose these images precisely because they depict all the highlights of motor racing through drivers, cars, teams and prizes, and because they also show the behind-the-scenes of the event with more intimate shots of the complex world that revolves around the race itself, also made up of workers, photographers, marshals and the public.
An extraordinary circus, which has always enthralled and fascinated, thrilled and excited, and which will be further enhanced by the long-awaited event at the Dino Zoli Foundation and the many prestigious guests who will enliven it.
