Sportweek: F.1 World Championship and Ferrari. Vasseur speaks exclusively

Ready? We leave. This weekend, in Bahrain, the Formula 1 World Championship begins and, like every year, the expectation of fans, not only Italians, is above all for Ferrari. Who is at the start with a new single-seater, the Sf-23, entrusted to the driving of two purebred “horses” like Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz: the three of them are on the cover of Sportweek on newsstands on Saturday with the Gazzetta (together with the price of 2 euros). But the real novelty of the season of the Reds is in the “handle”: when Mattia Binotto’s time is over, Frederic Vasseur (a Frenchman like… Jean Todt), arrived from Alfa Romeo, has been called in command of the team. And the new Ferrari Team Principal explains exclusively in our magazine what the team’s expectations are for this World Championship: “We have the men, means and resources to aim for the title, but also Mercedes and Red Bull. And we can’t think of changing everything in 6 months. The first step is to change our mentality. We have to stay cool and focused in the crucial moments. I said to the team: if we are first on our debut in Bahrain it does not mean that we have won the world championship, vice versa we will not have lost it if we are fifth And then the sense of challenge that prompted Elkann’s call, the impression aroused by the fans at the presentation of the new car, the relationship with the two drivers, the sense of belonging that is felt only in Maranello: there is this and much more in the interview with Vasseur who introduces our usual “F.1 Special” with everything you need to know about the 10 teams, drivers, cars, news, numbers, calendar, circuits, precedents … Nothing is really missing for enthusiasts and not of engines.

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Another interview not to be missed is the one with Salvatore Schillaci, about to board Sky’s “Beijing Express”. The beginnings in Messina with Scoglio, “a second father”, and Zeman, the years at Juve “where I had goosebumps at the first meeting with the lawyer”, the famous fight with Baggio in the locker room (“I headbutted him ”), the sudden Italian exploit in Italia 90 and “that penalty against Argentina that I would take now if I could go back”: Totò opens for Sportweek the book of memories of an adventurous career that took him all the way to Japan, also recounting many unpublished details of his life and the sensations experienced during this tour in India, Borneo and Cambodia.

But SW also takes you to Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean, chasing belugas, to Brazil for Zico’s 70th birthday, the great number 10 of one of the most spectacular Seleçao ever, and to Ukraine for Shakhtar, almost a national team that with qualifying for the round of 16 of the Europa League gives a bit of joy to an exhausted population. And since Saturday, when we’ll be on the newsstands, is March 4, we also pay homage to Lucio Dalla, who would turn 80, and his unforgettable song.