Luca Di Montezemolo: "Ferrari is passion, Ferrari is emotion, I thank God I worked for them"
F1 Beyond The Grid
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🗓️ 27 March 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
He was handed arguably the biggest job in motor racing in his mid-twenties, when none other than Enzo Ferrari made him Sporting Director of his famous team. But rather than falter under such pressure, Luca Di Montezemolo flourished. In the Seventies, as the 'Old Man's' trusted man on the ground at races, he led the team to their first world titles in over a decade. Then in the Nineties, after several years away, he returned as President to lead Ferrari out of the doldrums and into the most successful period of their history.
So sit back as Luca shares with Tom startling revelations about Enzo Ferrari, incredible anecdotes about Niki Lauda, Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna, and his forthright views on the last two superstars he signed for Ferrari: Alonso and Vettel.
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| 0:00.0 | Salute di io come vado. my lt headphones saying |
| 0:22.0 | whole is better in their great that is District |
| 0:30.0 | Hello again everyone Tom Clarkson here welcoming you to another edition of Beyond the Grid |
| 0:35.0 | presented by Bose Quiet Comfort 352 Wireless headphones. So far in season 2 we've |
| 0:41.8 | had Kimi Reikinen and David Coolthard on the show and this week's guest is |
| 0:46.0 | another bonafide F1 legend. He's a hugely charismatic figure whose career is |
| 0:52.4 | indelibly linked to Ferrari. In the 70s he was Enzo Ferrari's right hand man and |
| 0:57.3 | he went on to orchestrate the Scooterias Resurgence and then Dominance with Michael |
| 1:02.2 | Schumacher in the 2000s. I'm talking of course about Luca de Montezemelo. To do |
| 1:08.1 | the interview I traveled to Rome during the offseason and met Luca in his |
| 1:12.3 | office which Bazzali had a petrol pump in the corner but there was also lots of |
| 1:17.5 | Ferrari related memorabilia, pictures, photographs, miniature cars and why not. |
| 1:23.2 | So much of his career was spent at the team. Montezemelo is now 71 years old and |
| 1:28.8 | he's as youthful in his outlook as ever and as opinionated as well. So please sit |
| 1:34.1 | back and enjoy some incredible anecdotes about Enzo Ferrari, Nikki Louder, |
| 1:38.9 | Michael Schumacher and Eirton Senna, as well as some pretty forthright views on |
| 1:43.7 | the last two superstars he signed, Fernando Alonzo and Sebastian Vettel. |
| 1:48.6 | This is Montezemelo as you might never have heard him before. |
| 1:57.4 | Well Luca, welcome to Beyond the Grid. It's fantastic to have you with us. |
| 2:01.1 | Now it is such a big topic talking to you that I thought it's best to split it |
| 2:06.9 | up into various topics. So topic number one if we could start by talking |
| 2:11.8 | about Enzo Ferrari. Now how did you, a law graduate, end up working as his |
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