With Culture Shock Behind Him, Alexander Rossi Rewrites His Narrative

i think something that is hard to understand outside of italy is how regional motosport culture is and how much it varies. it's actually mostly in the northwest especially emilia-romagna and that's why many riders move there. so i made this, hopefully it also help understand why pecco moved to tavullia and franco's family also.

red: emilia romagna; modena->hometown of ferrari (maranello) ,maserati bologna -> hometown of ducati

yellow: emilia romagna; rimini -> hometown of marco bezzecchi (viserba) ,enea bastianini, michael ruben rinaldi (sbk), mattia casadei (motoe) cesena -> hometown of kevin zannoni, andrea dovizioso (forlimpopoli) matteo ferrari (motoe) ferrara -> hometown of andrea mantovani (motoe)

yellow: emilia romagna; reggio emilia -> nicolò bulega (sbk,montecchio emilia)

yellow: marche; pesaro -> hometown of valentino rossi, luca marini (tavullia)

blue: piemonte; torino -> hometown of pecco bagnaia and celestino vietti (ciriè)

green: veneto; belluno-> hometown of axel bassani (sbk, feltre)

light blue: lombardia; bergamo -> hometown of andrea locatelli (sbk)

pink: umbria; terni -> hometown of danilo petrucci

pink: abruzzo; chieti -> hometown of andrea iannone (sbk, vasto)

white: lazio; rome -> hometown of fabio di giannantonio and franco morbidelli

the first person who pointed out that sabrina carpenter's please please please is how they talk to their sports teams on the tv changed my life fr. I can't go a single race without singing 🎶heartbreak is one thing my ego's another i beg you don't embarrass me motherfucker 🎶 to myself

Charles Leclercs emotional radio for his first win in his home grand prix ❤️🇲🇨

Max is the real idgafer. He is the only one without the Senna shirt 😭😭

I still don’t think I’ll ever forgive F1/Liberty Media for stealing the individual livery reveals from us.

Like the gradual build up to the start of the season, with each team having their moment has now been replaced by some overwhelming performance

Ferrari: according to the information received by @FormulaPassion, Adrian Newey is in permanent contact with the Scuderia management.

The Maranello team is in pole position to recruit the engineer.

charles was SWEARING in his interviews with sky italia??

I think about that moment every day

These new rookies will never know the true terror an fe debut should be, for example, Jake Hughes, that post race drivers in a box moment where he looks absolutely traumatised by what happened to him in the race (Andre) and the elders of fe just laughed and went ‘welcome to formula e’ will live rent free in my head forever and it’s tragic that we no longer can traumatise the newbies in quite the same way

Im a bit confused why so many people think Newey is basically already in Maranello 🙈 I mean he’s still got a contract until the end of 25 and apparently after that a year of Garden leave. He’s 65 years old already turning 66 at the end of this year. RedBull has enough money so why would they let him go. Chances are - if they decide to keep him in his contract - that he maybe wouldn’t start a job at a new team as a 68 year old 🤔

To be honest I wouldn’t be surprised either way, if he retired or if he went to another team/Ferrari.

As you said he isn’t available for any team until 2027, there is a chance that he could get bought out of his contract, but even then he wouldn’t be available before the 2026 season, plus I think he has his retirement plan sorted

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But also in his book (which is incredible by the way) he expresses that he would have liked to work with Ferrari and he would have also liked to work with Alonso and Hamilton, and has regrets about not doing that. This is also something he has reiterated in interviews since then.

Also it’s possible that he could work for a team in a consultancy position, where he gets paid large sums of money but still has free time to get involved in other things that interest him or time to sail his yacht.

I don’t think he’d ever be someone who wholly leaves the sport, I think he’d stay around either as a consultant to a team or potentially even work with the FIA to write the regs