Gabriele Tarquini: The Motor Sport Interview – Motor Sport
Yann Ehrlacher, the World Touring Automotive Cup champion and nephew to Yvan Muller, is 25 years previous – Which suggests he was born in 1996. By then, Gabriele Tarquini’s Formulation 1 ambitions had spluttered out, he’d conquered the booming British Touring Automotive Championship and was thriving as a seasoned tin-prime professional racing for Alfa Romeo Inside the extreme-tech however…….
Yann Ehrlacher, the World Touring Automotive Cup champion and nephew to Yvan Muller, is 25 years previous – Which suggests he was born in 1996. By then, Gabriele Tarquini’s Formulation 1 ambitions had spluttered out, he’d conquered the booming British Touring Automotive Championship and was thriving as a seasoned tin-prime professional racing for Alfa Romeo Inside the extreme-tech however brief-lived madcap world of the Worldwide Touring Automotive Championship. The Italian was 34 in ’96, so hardly Inside The primary flush of youth in relative motor sport phrases. This season he was nonetheless racing, lining up on WTCR grids to Deal with Ehrlacher, previous rival and now good friend Muller (himself 52), plus The Reprimaryder of The rich expertise pool the collection is cultivating. Most significantly, Tarquini was additionally nonetheless worthwhile. Then in November, forward of his house race in Adria, he introduced his retirement.
He’ll be 60 in March, however appears youthful (although the facemasks in all probability helps) and is clearly in unbelievable bodily type. We meet On the Hungaroring, A pair of months earlier than he referred to as time on his profession, Earlier to a WTCR spherical the place he’ll line up amongst Hyundai’s quartet Of latest Elantra N TCRs, nonetheless expectant after a win final Outing in Aragon, his first since 2019. It’s an FIA collection, therefore the strict Covid professionaltocols. The acquainted bproper eyes are smiling above the masks and this gentleman racer options our questions with The simple allure that so endeared him to British followers in 1994, when he arrived on these shores with Alfa Corse and blitzed the BTCC. His English Is biggest now, however that singsong accent reprimarys simply As a Outcome of it On A daily basis was.
Again Inside the late Nineteen Eighties, Tarquini was Among The numerous most professionalmising of a pool of rising expertise himself, as a gpreviousen period of current Italian drivers pushed by way of: Caffi, Capelli, Nannini, Morbidelli, Montermini, Naspetti, Larini, Zanardi… Some, collectively with Ivan Capelli, Nicola Larini and Gianni Morbidelli, started grands prix for Ferrari, however Just one scored an F1 victory – Alessandro Nannini, earlier than the chain-smoking Benetton driver’s prime-flight profession was severed (alongside Together with his proper forearm) in a helicopter crash.
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