The rally driver speaks at the center of the sexist jokes that led to the suspension of Bobbi and Valsecchi
Christine Giampaoli Zonca is the involuntary star of the media event of the week, was the girl at center of beats by the pair of commentators for Sky, Matteo Bobbi and Davide Valsecchi, which led to their suspension for a grand prix. And contacted by Corriere della Serathe rally driver Zonca, gave her reflection on the case, surprising everyone: “I didn’t feel offended” and “there are real problems for women in motorsport”.
the bobbi-valsecchi case
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during thelast Formula 1 Grand Prix, as always broadcast by Sky, during one of the many connections Matteo Bobbi in connection, told Davide Valsecchi, who was on the track “there is a nice package of updates behind him” referring to a girl who was passing by. “I know them, unfortunately they told me you can’t test them” is Valsecchi’s answer. After an interview sent by the correspondent Federica Masolin to get out of the embarrassment, the two returned to the subject between jokes about the wives who would have taken them with “beats” and lost sight “since I was a child looking at those things”. The video with the exchange bounced on the web and Sky would have decided to give the duo a rest.
Christine Giampaoli Zonca’s reaction
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The person at the center of attention of the pair of commentators was precisely Christine Giampaoli Zonca or as everyone knows her also on social media Christine Gz. “I realized it because everyone started writing to me,” Zonca told Corriere della Sera. The girl added: “I didn’t feel offended, it was just a joke. They were also polite, it’s not like they said who knows what.” There was also another girl with her who did not want to talk and who Christine says she had just met “but she too didn’t take it badly”. You then jokingly added: “Let’s do this: at the next F1 race send me a video with Bobbi and Valsecchi so maybe this time I’ll be the one to make a couple of jokes to those two.” Likely that the meeting will not take place at the next Grand Prix since the two have been suspended. “When I found out I thought it was a joke” said Zonca “I was sorry, they are two good commentators, it all seemed so exaggerated to me. I know them and I wrote to them immediately”.
who is christine zonca?
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Christine Giampaoli Zonca has Italian parents, lived between Perugia and Varese, but she grew up in the Canaries where she discovered her passion for engines starting to race in the Extreme E championship with the team of DJ Carl Cox. Now she participates in rallies and in an environment considered purely male, she is often asked if she receives harsh comments: “As in all working sectors, there are those who make a comment that may be annoying, or something else, but I’ve never had problems. I’ve always had a good relationship with todo el mundo”. TO mowmag she also added how “there are real problems for women in motorsport, I who live in this environment know it well”. The case can therefore be said to be closed.
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