Riccardo, se tutto va bene, il 1982 sarà per te l’anno della «consacrazione». Vogliamo fare un tuffo nel tuo passato, raccontare la tua vita, confessare i piccoli e i grandi segreti?

Riccardo, if all goes well, 1982 will be the year of "consecration" for you. Shall we look back into your past, tell your life, confess the little and big secrets?

I think I've followed Riccardo Patrese since his first days of F. Italia, but not always on the race fields and I probably had a quite different idea of him from the one I have now. I perfectly remember some of his beautiful races of the '75 season, such as that one... A pursuit that he played at the end of the championship at Imola…

Champion-proof / Patrese-Lancia Turbo: “I drove this car for 300km (Kyalami's distance) and found it exciting as a motor and roadholding. Immediately after my victory at Kyalami, here I am at the wheel of the Lancia Delta HF Turbo that Autosprint asked me to try for its readers…”

Who is the young driver from Padua who amazed in South Africa: the African race had a great merit, that of having revealed in all its potential a new formidable champion with a tricolor passport: Riccardo Patrese…

The truth is that these eleven years do not even seem to me to have passed; it is a long period that has passed very quickly, so much so that it still seems to me to be in an interlocutory phase, in the launch phase. This is because I do not seem to have reaped based on all that I have sown in many years of career…

An amazing Riccardo relives his season as vice world champion, which began with three Williams braces, which he defines very different from those Mercedes 2019, less clear-cut and dry.