“Give a child a piece of paper and some crayons and ask them to draw a car… they will surely make it red,” said Enzo Ferrari. But I must say, this time he was wrong. When Noah, my son, was just three years old and fell in love with Formula 1, the first car he drew wasn’t red; it was black. Yes, black, like the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas, his heroes. Perhaps it was because Noah is half South African (Lewis is very popular in South Africa), or maybe it was because Toto Wolff, CEO of Mercedes AMG Petronas, during the pandemic, sent us a signed cap from Bottas. Or perhaps it’s simply because children are irresistibly drawn to champions. The fact is that a spark ignited in Noah, one that quickly grew into an overwhelming passion, developing day by day, in a completely spontaneous way.
Federico Bastiani
«I DID THE POSSIBLE, I AM DOING THE IMPOSSIBILE,
I AM WORKING ON MIRACLES»
