Having rejected Kimi Antonelli in favor of the older Hamilton is not just an error of “vision”. But it confirms that John has very little Italian.
One can be truly “Italian” if born in New Yorkgoes to primary school in United Kingdomin middle school Brazil and in high school a Paris and if today he has a wallet that speaks French and a head that looks to Wall Street? It’s the question that everyone in the palaces of politics, economics and sport has been asking themselves ever since John Elkanna foreigner even in his nickname which he is not Gianni but rather Yaky – net worth estimated by Forbes of 2.1 billion dollars – took the reins of the lawyer’s empire Gianni Agnelli.
Seeing how things are going, on all the fronts mentioned above, the right answer is probably no, with that past and present history you cannot be Italian, not in the sense we commonly understand. Let’s imagine that for this reason too the multi-ethnic and multilingual royal child did not ask himself the problem of bringing to Ferraria team of which he has been president since 2018, the very Italian Andrea Kimi Antonelli despite all the experts considering the boy from Bologna to be the best talent around.
Why Ferrari said no to Andrea Kimi Antonelli
John he preferred the highly decorated one Hamiltonwhat about Antonelliwith his forty years, could be a father. «A question of marketing», he explained above The Truth Giorgio Gandolabut if instead of thinking about money via “safe used” a Maranello had dared to dream, today we will tell a completely different story, for the Ferrarifor theItaly and also for John Elkann. Yes, because a winning Italian driver driving one Red – the last one was Michele Alboreto in 1985 – it would have been a new case Sinnera contagious collective euphoria would have made us forget the Italian disasters of Elkann: the Fiat reduced to a sub-brand of the French Peugeot (And Citroën), the closed factories, the workers left at home, the discontinued publishing industry, the accusations of tax evasion, the Juventus downgraded etc. etc.
Let’s be clear, missing an appointment with history is nothing new even at home Lambs. Even today a Turin the failure to acquire burns Diego Armando Maradona on the part of Juventus. Lambs identified the Argentine talent during the World Cup in 1978, but the transfer failed due to resistance from the manager Boniperti who responded to the report fromLawyer with a laconic and tragic sentence that went down in history: «If he were a player as valuable as you say, I would have known it».
From Maradona to Steve Jobs: the great wastes of industrial history
And the same goes for the Turin neighbor of the Lambsthat Carlo De Benedetti that while he was driving the Olivetti he went to Cupertinoin Californiato visit the laboratories of a small company that went by the name Apple. Accompanied by a collaborator, he visited a garage where he met two young geeks, Steve Jobs And Steve Wozniak. The two founders proposed a De Benedetti to finance them with 200 thousand dollars in exchange for 20% of the company, De Benedetti he declined the offer, considering them boys with “time to waste”.
But in history Elkann–Antonelli there is something more than a big fuzzy deal, there is the inability of a manager to get in tune with his country, which does not necessarily generate turnover (in case it would have done so) but acts as a watershed between being a leader and being a caiman. John unfortunately he is closer to the second hypothesis: under his presidency the Ferrari Formula One they didn’t win anything, they were even relegated to fourth place in the championship. But in recent years it has recorded record profits, exceeding one billion net, and important dividends for its shareholders. We are naive to hope for the opposite.
