In Emilia-Romagna, Formula 1 Still Has a Soul
Plus: happy 75th birthday, Formula 1
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There’s a 22,446 km2 stretch of land in northern Italy where speed and slowness live side by side.
It’s not the kind of contrast that screams at you. It hums. You feel it in the cobblestones, in the silence of a good pecorino, in the low growl of a V12 warming up at Fiorano. And if you’ve ever walked through the gates of Imola—not just as a fan, but as someone paying attention—you know exactly what I mean.
My parents and family are from Campania, in southern Italy, but Emilia-Romagna might be my favorite region.
A region I would love to call home someday with my wife and daughters.
That’s saying a lot for a country that over-delivers on every cliché. But there’s something different here: something lived-in that re…
