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
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