Davide Rigon, a career toward the impossible?

Davide Rigon and the top step of the podium, a combination insolvent. Changing leagues, teams and their opponents, but the end result. The title won on the track of Navarre in the Spanish championship Superleague Formula is just the latest of the many seals he scored from the Veneto talented staff whose board boasts success in all that took part in the championships, cementing his image in the world of motor sport International. After winning the Italian league, F. Riviera in 2005 and the title of vice champion the following year in a row of F.3 Italy, to arrive Rigon it happened twice in 2007 with the title of the Italian and European F.3000.
2008 is the year of the consecration with the winning debut in the 24H of Spa-Francorchamps behind the wheel of a Ferrari F430 in the FIA World GT Championship and the title in the newborn Superleague Formula with the colors of the club in Beijing. The landing in 2009 in GP2 team in the ranks of Milan Trident is not an easy one, despite the Malaysian podium on the track in GP2 Asia, the fifth place on the track of Spa and several other important markers such as at the GP of Monaco. In 2010, Rigon and his management then decided to retrace their steps. The choice proves once again guesses and-purple with white Belgian club dell’Anderlecht the twenty-four wins her second title in SF proving determined and sure of himself, leading the team azert up their first win in the category “ season in GP2 has certainly not been positive, but there are reasons. With the Trident team most likely will not we trusted each other and I could not do the same job this year that I played with the team azert, where I heard around me all the confidence. Even without winning the title could certainly do better than that. In addition to the problems of budgets had not helped me. Throughout the season arrived on Wednesday on the track without the certainty of being able to then get in the car. In these situations it becomes impossible to program and develop the car. It ‘been a long and painful. I have never understood to be so long away from the podium “says Davide Rigon.

The year 2010 was certainly not a stroll and repeat the success in the same league is not easy. After a difficult start on the track at Silverstone David took to hand the team – young and in his first appearance in the championship – pointing the right way forward, working and developing with every race car from the powerful 750 hp. “ ‘Fought until the season was a photo-finish. Honestly, after Silverstone I no longer believed in the title. With the team we decided to try the same and we managed to create a great team. They gave me great confidence and I’m glad to have them paid off with this win, “said David” win twice on the same sample is never easy, especially here where there are lots of samples, even if people believe that winning the SF is very easy. Unfortunately, it is also the idea of many people at work who work in other contexts. I think that winning a title is never easy especially when you do it with a team that is not the top “says Vicenza. “The fast pace of SF. You always give 100%, without giving the slightest smear. Each error is paid heavily. In my opinion this is a great honor to the championship because it teaches its pilots to remain calm and steady nerves, forcing them to take important decisions in no time. Again, this comes close to the rhythms of F1 “

Just checked the title of Rigon thoughts are already projected to 2011, although today there are still no confirmations. The first thought is for the big circus of Formula 1 but did not disdain a commitment in GP2 or Formula Superlegue “ Now I want to enjoy this success with the hope that it will get a call from Formula 1. After the success of 2005-2007-2008, not to mention the second place in F.3 Italy, this season have proved to be ready in all respects. In recent months I’ve been working hard to try to achieve this great goal, though certainly not be easy. If F1 does not want me then I’ll focus on something else. I would like to continue in Superleague Formula. For 2011, the project is to grow further with stops in China, Australia and Brazil. Or I’d run, and wins, the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a prototype LP1. One of my return to GP2? Only if there was a chance to run in the top row of a team to point right to the final success. “

Of the same opinion that people have observed very closely in these twenty-four years, as Gian Carlo Minardi in 2005 made him a debut at the wheel of his car, Eng. Gabriele Tredozi and his manager Giovanni Minardi and that in all these years has taken and on the right track with its long experience in the world of sports competitions, and a history of F1, F3000 and Superleague Formula “ I know David very many years. I am proud not only for success in itself, but for the type of work he has done throughout the whole season of working closely with the team fighting to the end, down a track with great determination and composure. Year after year we have grown to category taking home victories and titles, despite not inconsiderable problems of budgets that have prevented us from participating in private testing or to have new material always. In 2007, the year of its inception and its title F.3000 we worked side by side in the same team. At that time I got to really appreciate his talent, his working methods and their accuracy. In 2008, however, we were adversaries, as I had been called to work for the Scuderia Playteam in his debut in SF. I can say with absolute confidence that it is much better to have Rigon in their team as a direct opponent. Despite being a single-seater debut with this complex and powerful (750 hp V12) has once again led his team to the success of getting the better riders could count on experience, including multi-annual in the world of Formula 1 in the ‘ Former Champ Car and GP2. At that moment, but he only came from the F3000. I can not understand why it can not find the opportunity to test for an F1 team. Today I see many champions in F1, but also many poor drivers who come to drive a car with the suitcase full of dollars. I am very pleased to see that both national and international media are giving much emphasis to the victory of David and his talent. I do hope that others may become aware of its value “ Comment Giovanni Minardi.

For the fourth consecutive year and then a pilot run by manager Giovanni Minardi sign the roll of honor of the season. In addition to the aforementioned successes Rigon, Gabriele Lancers in 2007 and had earned the laurel Luca Casadei, respectively, in the Italian GT championship in Italian and Clio RS, while in 2009 it was the turn of Daniel Zampieri with the title in the F3 Italy, which earned him a place in the ‘FDA
David’s success has not gone unnoticed even among engineers and designers of the Menard Competition Technologies Limited (MCT), the company that designed, engineered and created the heart of the Superleague Formula car license plate, a 4.2-liter V12 that delivers the beauty of 750 hp.
By controlling the telemetry of the car dell’Anderlecht MCT V12, engineers were particularly impressed by the prompt reaction of the sample in contact with the car Venetian white-green of Beijing during the early stages of the second race on the track of Navarre had hit the leader League Rigon sending him off the track, making him mute the engine. Now any driver he angrily threw the steering wheel out of the car leaving the race, but not Rigon. With great presence of mind has gone from automatic to manual and put in reverse, by restarting the engine. It ‘a slight step back enough to rekindle his hopes and the team azert. Comparing the seconds have passed since the restart contact with the many complex tasks to complete by Rigon you can understand how extraordinary was the reaction of the pilot. In just over eight seconds Davide Rigon has transformed his day and saved his season.