This is the last lap of the last race of the season in FIA Formula 3. The title is at stake and it seems that it is already in the hands of one of the talents with the greatest projection for Italy, the Alpine academy driver Gabriele Minì, who, riding In the second position, he already held the title with his fingers. But suddenly the unexpected happened: in the last corner of the last round of the championship, the Italian diamond, Leonardo Fornaroli (December 3, 2004, Plasencia, Italy), achieved an impossible overtake on Mansell at the famous Parabolica of Monza , in the final meters of the course, to place third and win the championship. Unbelievable.
The 19-year-old driver couldn’t believe it when he crossed the finish line. He achieved the crown of the third category of the natural ladder in the F1 World Championship, and he did it like Alzamora in 125cc in 1999: without winning a race all year. How did he get it? thanks to the great perseverance that his rival for the scepter, Minì, does not have, despite the fact that he has achieved a victory this year.
Fornaroli finished with 0 wins, 6 podiums and was only outside the Top-10 on three occasions, with only one retirement. Meanwhile, Minì won one race, had four podiums but was not in the top 10 on 7 occasions. That made the difference.
Even more incredible is the way in which Fornaroli achieved this. The two transalpine drivers battle wheel to wheel and pass each other in the battle for the crown, with tense moments where they even leave the track. And finally, when Minì was second and Fornaroli 4th, the latter invented an overtake in the final Parabolica, pushed with all his soul when it seemed he could not, with a magnificent interior against Mansell, who was finally forced open his route to Leonardo’s surprise.
He went with everyone. He earned a title. And perhaps, we have to see, if there is an opportunity in an academy for young drivers of an F1 team, which so far has not decided to sign him.
Source: La Verdad
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