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Today we have Umberto Scandola with us

Good morning and thank you for the invitation. Here we are, then, we have ten minutes to make four

talk about your job that I have always admired as much by passionate

of cars but also of motorsport to see like a rally driver,

of videos you have seen as well you, on the internet there are as many as you want, what you can do,

the spaces you can drive, etc., something crazy and passion

for the guide, the skill probably not enough according to it also takes a

little 'how to say, the balls, said so in French, but here I would like you to tell us

maybe how did you start that? what it means for you to drive a rally car

maybe the difference between this and another type of piloting

But then yes, let's say that as you said you and you have already said, I'm lucky to be able to

to do this job which then is the passion, so in reality it is not possible

consider a job when you do It does what you really like

especially in my opinion if it is a sport and then I'm lucky enough to do too

the pilot, thanks to Skoda Italy and run in the car and be a pilot, yes, yes

becomes with passion, surely, with sacrifices, with luck

and it takes the right people to moment, it must be

determined, you must never give up, then after short after just after

many situations created and maybe even sometimes with the case, in short, we have arrived

to be, to make this profession a passion, It's beautiful, and as you say the rallies

I think they are very much fascinating, because I challenge anyone a

do not stay a little 'open-mouthed when you see a passing of a race car as you said,

in a street, in a common road, a mountain road, rather than

a dirt road, but always roads closed traffic

and not double sense, no, absolutely not, this is another advantage you have, yes and therefore safety is king

as in all sports but in our sport we need a special eye

just about security. But how do you start? Because then I imagine the pilot ... you say pilot, start from Go-Kart ...

Does the rally driver have a similar route? Can it have a similar path? How do you get from the asphalt to the ground?

Yes, then, the path is parallel to that of the track

The track begins with the Kart, after which you pass to the formula or to the cars

tourism and continue on the trail. In the rally clearly

it starts, also because as a child you can not help but drive the Go-Kart, it starts in the Kart and then

however, at least that for how much it concerns, as soon as I could, even before the

18 years I started racing already with racing cars in the races of climb and in

circuit precisely because in that circumstance was not necessary

driving license, being a minor I could still participate. As soon as

I turned 18, I was lucky in the condescending parents and I have

started running in rallies

and so, in short, after from there, it was all a bit ', all down in short,

I had, as I said before, the luck of finding the right people at the right time and having

a family that has always believed in my potential and always believed that

this could today also be a job.

Because today Motor Sport always means many sacrifices and do the

pilot, then finally here too,

it's beautiful, one feels even privileged, but still nothing is

given, I think you have taken of doors in your face too. Yes, yes, I took a lot of doors

but I think a little 'all sports, at certain levels,

that's how it is, the interest in addition to what is there comes in half

true competition and clearly of doors in the face we have taken several, but nevertheless

I'm always giving stimuli, a challenge these situations, to challenge

even some people who may have you closed the door in the face before and

find them maybe in a situation different, forced to open the doors and indeed,

to want to welcome you with open arms. So every time I've been, maybe

set aside then I found the challenge to go and do something else there.

There's something that always fascinates me when I see a movie, I do not know if you are

agree with me, it is the trust that the rally driver can put away in the navigator

I can not even trust my girlfriend, wife, I do not know about you, too

when, "You tell me if anyone is there is it right? "I still look, I do not trust

There is a blind trust there, which is how one develops

stuff like that with a person who maybe you were put there on the team, not

you chose it ... But, then, the relationship with navigator, now

we are talking about a navigator professional, I run with Guido, the

my navigator, about 9-10 years and ... let's say he is a second wife

professional, yes yes, the relationship with the navigator is very, very, very tight

in the car sometimes with a gesture him He already understands what I mean by that

correction I want to do, the curve that I had dictated, the curve that we have faced, he sees

if the curve is slippery, I do not have to tell him why he sees the behavior

of the car, he sees if a curve closes a little more than that

that we had seen before, that is, many gestures many things, you do not even need to tell them

because we have this, this relationship, which we are now in symbiosis, is

as if the car led him and I were in his place, we are really each other,

you do not even need to talk, if this clearly has compatibility of character

we have refined it over time between myself and him and then this symbiosis

with the races, with the tests, with many things ... Arguing in the car? But no...

you gave me, I know, a wrong indication, does it ever happen?

Well, it can happen, like a pilot who can make a curve wrong, but no,

really, we have aligned respect, we have a relationship

that goes beyond what is pilot-navigator or even friendship, we have a

truly mutual respect and the first thing we do, when I'm wrong,

when he's wrong he's asking for an apology, but that's it, over there, there's no discussion

we know that we are giving a hundred per one hundred both at that time and if

it happens an error is because it had to happen, there is no other

explanation. A question about limits. The threshold

you risk taking it, that is, when one sees one

OnBoard video of a rally car, one says "But this has been so long, he did

the curve and the millimeter ", how much are you in percentage, how much

you are close, in those paths maybe more tortuous, narrower, from ... So yes, see

from the outside sometimes it may seem more complicated than it is inside, it can

seem that maybe we are risking what for a person seems in fact, however

in reality no, what we do is all calculated

and when we go out of the way, because it can happen, and because there's an unexpected,

what we do is everything calculated

we know where we put the wheels, we know how the car will go into

that determined curve, in that particular situation,

according to the road surface, if it is disconnected, if it is more slippery than another,

if it is wet, if there is snow, if it is dirt then no, we know, we are very

prepared there is nothing so improvised, really,

this is the experience, probably also the qualities that one must have to do this job,

and so all this put together means that you can always go to a very high level

close to 100% but maybe, without never overcome it, always keep that

small percentage more to attack when it's needed. It is true the speech that a

track rider can become good and fast, doing, running, running, though for

to become good at rallies you have to have that dose somehow,

maybe to, go over? Now I do not know on the track, because even the track is very difficult, because there are others

variables, yes the track is really a lot

difficult, as I said I did some race on the track and I found many difficulties

to seek that perfection that maybe in the rally it's less

request, because the trajectory on the track is that and from there you can not escape, in the rally a little bit in short, you go looking for

the best trajectory but it is not said that you can always follow it or find it, I do not know

tell you if a pilot ... actually there are some drivers who run on the track and

they are also very strong in the rallies and there have been other realities, like Raikkonen for

example, which has made seasons in world rally and has collected a lot of

bodies, of rollovers, because for them, going out of the street means a way of

escape, in the rally often and gladly the escape route does not have it, there is the rock, so it is an approach

very, very different. An advice for who maybe wanted to take

we have the last minute ... punctual the bell ... this path, in the sense,

who loves to drive, who ... what are the ingredients that one must have? A dutiful advice,

that is not to do it on the roads open to traffic, because you are not pilots,

doing rallies or thinking of being one rider on the mountain road,

with the guide open to traffic. Contact the circuits, like this one.

One starts maybe going to the circuit, training on the road, etc.,

circuits also on land, there are also land circuits, there are also schools,

rally, with very good drivers, who can

give lessons and can also give advice, say yes, you are

brought, no, you're not, in short, in my opinion that could be

the best approach to this specialty, definitely not going on the streets

open to traffic and challenge a bit 'fate and that's why we are at Motor1Days

in a circuit and we will always want to make events of this kind at an autodrome,

on the contrary, it would be necessary to fill the Autodromes in our country much more

which I think are too often emptied by enthusiasts, yes

are those a little 'more technical but ... Questions from the public, before closing?

Do we have a few seconds, by a show of hands? .... Nobody and then,

Umberto Scandola, thank you. Thank you bye