The trajectories of Massimo Rivola and Charles Leclerc they crossed in 2016, when the manager from Faenza became director of the Ferrari Driver Academy and the Monegasque signed his first contract with the Prancing Horse at the age of 18. Leclerc was still at the dawn of his single-seater career, he had returned from a second place in Macau and from fourth in the standings in European Formula 3, and was preparing to land in the GP3 Series with the ART Grand Prix, in the season that would bring him the first championship won (repeated the following year with the conquest of F2 with Prema, as a rookie).
For three seasons, Rivola has therefore closely followed Leclerc’s development, before deciding to land in MotoGP to take the reins of Aprilia in 2019, helping the talented Maranello rider to mature, both as a person and at the wheel: ” AND it was a lot of fun working with him. It was immediately understood that he would become a champion. He reminded me a lot of Alonso in some ways: he wanted to win any challenge and did not accept defeat, but he took it really badly“, Recalled the manager a The paper, then focusing on a character aspect recognized in recent years by Leclerc himself: “We worked a lot on that, on managing anxiety, anger, on mulling over the mistake. On average, it happens that out of 15 corners you can make a mistake and you can’t think of the mistake for the next 14… He did a great job and improved a lot. And then I believe that the life tragedies he suffered, from Jules Bianchi to his father, have made him even stronger. He still has a lot of potential for growth. I told him what he is missing, he needs to improve his reading of the race “. Aspect in which she excelled Fernando Alonso: “Nobody read competitions like him. Many times at the wall he made us feel like idiots because he could see beyond. He understood things before others, there are pilots who teach you a lot “Rivola honestly admitted.
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