Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, entrepreneur and former president of Ferrari, receives the prestigious Nino Vaccarella Award, an award established by the ACI Sport Sicilia trustee delegate Daniele Settimo and the president of the Automobile Club of Italy Angelo Sticchi Damiani.
The two-day Automobile Club D'Italia dedicated to the 2023 Motor Racing and Karting Champions kicked off this afternoon at the Taormina Conference Centre. A ceremony full of charm and emotions, where the stars of the four-wheeled ACI Sport disciplines shine.
Among the superstars of the inaugural Aci awards ceremony Gabriele Minì, the Formula 1 driver and winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans Antonio Giovinazzi and all the Sicilian champions awarded by the regional Aci Sport delegation.
"We have closed an important year - said engineer Angelo Sticchi Damiani - full of great satisfactions and this evening we will celebrate some of these. This evening there are two important figures for Italian motorsport, a beautiful story when the winning Ferrariera and a winning Ferrari of today , certainly different but which continues to win".
"I am particularly pleased to receive this award because it is dedicated to a beautiful person, to a man who gave so much to Ferrari who is Nino Vaccarella - said Montezemolo - We often joked with him on the phone, I asked him for example if he or Merzario was stronger but I I knew that the strongest was Vaccarella. In life as in sport, there are champions and there are champions, one of these is Michael Schumacher, I could spend hours telling you anecdotes. Even anecdotes about Sicily. When we celebrate 50 years of Ferrari in Sicily, I told him that we would also go for some laps at the Autodromodi Pergusa. We agreed together with Todt that we would do a few laps, at most 8 because we were certain that we would not find a large audience. Instead, that event was incredible and within a few laps, Schumi found himself in a huge crowd, so from the 8 planned laps, he did 22, having fun and amusing the public.
Thanks again to you, thanks Sicily and thanks Taormina.
I hope to return soon".
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