A NEW CIRCUIT FOR LOU

I introduce my post about the 3 Hours of Imola with a fantastic news: besides Monza and Mugello, there will be Imola too! Three Italian races, can you believe it? 

Lou took part to this endurance race held in Imola driving a Porsche with the Rebellion colours, it was his first time on this historical circuit and I hope he liked the delicious food of Emilia Romagna too 😋 

He qualified 16th, sharing his car with Romain Dumas and Thomas Preining… he fought a lot for the 6th position, but at the 49th lap he had to surrender to the 9th final place.

The winner is… our local Italian hero Mirko Bortolotti, who I met in Monza back in 2014!

See you for the next event starring Lou!

ROUND #3, HUNGARY: POINTS, POINTS, POINTS…

Welcome to Budapest, the “East European Paris”! Well… I actually don’t like comparisons among cities.

Lou qualified 12th, with his teammate Pedrinho just behind him, while the pole was conquered by Call(um) Me Maybe Ilott.

The winner of the Feature Race was… Robert Shwartzman, who, as started to sing Neapolitan songs, will be nicknamed “O’ Russo”, which means “The Russian” in Neapolitan dialect. Lou ended 7th.

Talking about the Sprint Race, it was won by Luca the Italian Goodfella, and Lou improved of a position.

See you on August 2nd and 9th for two British rounds. There will be a big surprise…!

ROUND #2, STYRIA: SAME STORY, SAME PLACE, SAME CIRCUIT

Yahoo! Welcome back to the Red Bull Ring! Same circuit, different name. Yes, this race weekend is named “Styrian Grand Prix”. Fun fact: firstly I read “Syrian Grand Prix” 🤣

For our dear Lou this weekend began badly. He qualified 18th, and his car suffered from technical issues; mechanics spent the whole night awake to fix it. 

The Saturday afternoon race was even worse, with the little Swiss chocolate ending 19th. The winner was… Robert Shwartzman, a Russian young and promising driver with a German-sounding surname who attended high school in Italy. Oh, and Luca the Italian Goodfella ended as runner-up! 

In the Sunday morning race our cutie was a little bit luckier, as he ended 12th. And the winner was… the (Great) Dane Christian Lundgaard, Marta García’s ex! 

See you next week for Hungarian round 👋🏻 

ROUND #1, AUSTRIA: BACK TO LIFE, TO SAY IT WITH EIFFEL 65

Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaah! Finally we’re back to reality! This weekend we had the first Austrian round, which will be repeated in a week.

Our hero Lou scored the 10th time both in free practice and in qualifications, and in Saturday afternoon ended the Feature Race in 7th position.

But the best of the best happened during the Sprint Race on Sunday morning: he ended 2nd and climbed the podium… wait a moment… podium? Due to the emergency, there’s no podium! However, it was nice to see him wearing a mask. Sportspeople are always there to give us a good example, and when it comes to Lou I can’t be wrong about that. 

THIS TIME FOR AFRICA

“HE IS THE CHAMPION! HE IS THE CHAMPION!”

Okay, okay… you know that I’m addicted to the songs by Queen… but is there a better song to celebrate Lou’s conquer? Music purists maybe will lynch me, as I have drawn the title of this post from a song by Shakira 😜

Lou is the champion of the 2020 SRO E-Sport GT Series! He started from pole position during the final round in the virtual version of Kyalami and made a splendid victory!

I’m happy he won this virtual championship, but I actually hope to see him winning a REAL championship one day!

See you in Spielberg just after the end of my summer exam session, which, by the way, is the last one of my undergraduate university career. Then, in October, I will finally obtain my Bachelor’s Degree!

P.S.: did you know that, in Zulu language, “Kyalami” means “my home”? It’s such a beautiful meaning, isn’t that?

A PAGE OF HISTORY HAS BEEN WRITTEN TODAY

One of Louis’ biggest dreams (and one of mine as well 😜) is now reality! 

Lou, along with Kuba Brzezinski, Nikodem Wisniewski and Raffaele Marciello (whose mother follows me on Instagram and always likes my posts) won the first virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans in history!

Their car was a Rebellion LMP1 prototype, similar to the one which will be used by Lou for the real 24 Hours of Le Mans, which will be held next September.

There were a lot of famous drivers too: Sir Lando, Prince Charles, Fernando the Emperor of Spain and future Emperor of Indianapolis, Gasoly (Gasoline + Gasly), Stoffel VanDeFerran (he’s in a relationship with Anna De Ferran, Gil’s daughter), Maximum Crashtappen…

Lou and his co-équipiers leaded the most of the race until their deserved win, for whom I give them my congratulations.

See you for the virtual Canadian Grand Prix 👋🏻 

STREET FIGHTERS!

ICYMI: apart from being a big motorsport fan, I’m a geek girl too, so that’s the explaination of this title 😜

Lou seems to be luckier in virtual races than in real ones: he won the Virtual F2 Race in Baku! But this today was true only for F2… he actually didn’t finish the F1 Virtual GP. The next one will be better, never give up and never be sad! 

However, the Baku Virtual F1 Race was won by Sir George, followed by runner-ups Alex the Thai Massager and Speedy Gutiérrez (the Fastest Mouse of Mexico eheheheh… but don’t tell it to Perez!). Pietrinho Fittipaldinho ended 6th.
So… the Virtual F2 Championship is now over, while Virtual F1 will have a last round in Canada. Then, we will be back to the future reality.