F1 driver, but another in the fight against floods in Italy

Yuki Tsunoda, Japanese driver of the AlphaTauri F1 team, is another resident of Faenza in the fight against severely affected by floods in the city where the headquarters of the group is located, one of the most affected in the region of Emilia-Romagnawhere it is The natural disaster caused 13 deaths, flooded 25 towns and displaced more than 20,000 people.

There, the Japanese pilot did not hesitate to put on some mountain shoes, shorts and roll up his sleeves to put his hands at the service of the Italians. He stayed away from the luxuries that can be associated with a driver in the highest category of world motorsport and chose to get his hands dirty with other citizens to fetch water and clean the muddy streets on Wednesday after living ” a night horrible”, as he himself told on his Instagram account.

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“After a terrible night, the city was seriously affected: dust, mud, the smell of gasoline everywhere”, the Japanese pilot wrote on social networks on Wednesday. “Now people are struggling to get food and especially shelter, after many have been displaced from their own homes”said the AlphaTauri driver, a team which announced that the flood had not affected its F1 factory.

As explained in his publication, and as his teammate De Vries and the Faenza team have already done, Yuki Tsunoda asked his fans to make donations to help the more than 20,000 evacuees and the many populations affected by this disaster.

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