4 HOURS OF IMOLA - FORMULINO PUTS A PAW IN IT

Welcome to Imola, Formulino’s kingdom! As a cat lady, how couldn’t I love Imola and its sweet kitty? Lou is a cat lover too, and surely Formulino brought him good luck. His teammates Lorenzo and Ferdinand and him had such a perfect race, as they stayed P4 for a long time and finally gained the tallest step of the podium in both general classification and LMP2. Congratulations boys for your 2nd victory in a row!

Next ELMS race? Monza, on July 3rd! It’s close to where I live, and I couldn’t be happy to be back to the track, or better, to my second home, after two years of pandemic. The only problem? It’s period of uni exams. I will see how I will manage the situation.

SPA 6 HOURS - WHAT A MESS!

Rain, red flags, battles, crashes: this was the 2022 Spa 6 Hours. Toyota lived a double-faced weekend: I’m happy that Kamui Kobayashi won the race, but on the other hand I’m a bit sad for Séb Buemi who had engine issues. And Lou? His teammate Lorenzo Colombo was 4th in the general classification, but unfortunately our Swiss chocolate broke the front end and Prema ended up 10th in the general classification as well as 7th in LMP2 class.

Cheer up Lou, Rob and Lorenzo, your next race will be better!

IMSA, LAGUNA SECA - HEATING UP THE CALIFORNIAN HEAT

Laguna Seca is for sure one of the hottest places I’ve ever visited around the world; I was there back in August 2015 and I was feeling like I was burning. And if that wasn’t hot enough, Lou gave his contribution to further heat it up.

But let’s start from the beginning. For this IMSA race, his teammate in Tower Motorsport was John Farano. They had a very good race, even considering that they had never raced together before, and ended with a fantastic victory in LMP2 class! Congratulations guys!

Lou also had the opportunity to visit San Francisco and loved it so much, just like I did during my 2015 USA trip. 

4 HOURS OF LE CASTELLET - THE SURPRISE IN THE EASTER EGG

Good evening! Have you spent a good Easter? Lou for sure spent a fantastic Easter, in his egg he found such a beautiful surprise: the victory of the 4 Hours of Le Castellet in ELMS.

As Juan Manuel Correa is currently injured, Lorenzo Colombo took his place alongside Lou and Ferdinand. 

The race started well, our boys were able to stay between P1 and P2 for the whole race (they actually started from P3) and finally got an amazing win, both for LMP2 class and for the whole race, making them leaders of the championship. Congratulations, Prema boys! However, this was only the first race, there’s still a long way to go.

I take the opportunity to wish you again an Happy Easter 🐣 Bye!

THREE YOUNG GUNS IN A NEW TEAM

Yesterday, on his Instagram page, Lou gave a big announcement: during 2022 season, he will race in ELMS for the second consecutive year, but this time we will see him at the wheel of a LMP2 Prema car; the Italian team will make its ELMS debut. 

Obviously Lou won’t be alone during this adventure: by his side, there will be Ferdinand Habsburg and Juan Manuel Correa. I wish them all the best, and maybe I will visit them in Monza!

2022 SUPER SEBRING WEEKEND - UPS&DOWNS

If Charles Leclerc had a wonderful weekend, bringing back Ferrari to the win after more than two years, unfortunately we cannot say the same about Lou in his IMSA 12h of Sebring weekend. According to what he wrote on his Instagram account, Prema Team had to retire his car.

But… wait, there wasn’t only IMSA this weekend. He also raced in the FIA WEC Super Sebring weekend, where he ended P4; the crew leaded the race too, but unfortunately they had to surrender to the bad weather conditions and to the subsequent red flags. 

As you can see, this has been an up&down weekend for our hero.

2022 WEC PROLOGUE - A SOUND IN THE HEAT

Prologue is a word which recalls us about classical music. Well, but this time in the Floridian heat you could hear the sound of WEC engines instead of the sound of the orchestra. For the Prema boys it was a fantastic combo of track days, with RobKub who scored the fastest time in the afternoon of Saturday and Lou who ended P4 in the afternoon of Sunday.

Personally I think it will be such an exciting season and I wish all the drivers all the best, especially to Lou and to Prema. Lou loves Sebring so much and for sure will have a good Sebring 1000!