Davide Cironi, the passion beyond the obstacle. Loving cars, the golden age of motorsport, the fast driving. In love with fast cars but with one only in his heart, the F40 Ferrari by engineer Materazzi. Mechanical, engineering, driving and writer skills together. That’s why his road tests are different from all other tests. He perceives, understands, processes, tastes, and then manages to transfer, with a refined speaking clearly, as well as a sober, easy-going and funny approach, all the varied driving feeling, like not even a professional test driver can. Cars talk to him directly as well as he does with those who follow him and his videos. He made us go through a wonderful era otherwise possibly forgotten. For that we have chosen him as Ferraris test driver; maybe we talk the same language.
Davide Cironi is an Italian motoring journalist, with an infinite passion for driving cars. And for the howling engine sound. His website and YouTube channel are focused on presenting his driving experience in a unique way, and, even though he is young, he has built quite a reputation among gearheads in Italy and all over the world. On his video reviews his personal style always feels honest and unbiased, and allows the audience to feel like taking part in his experience.
When he started, Italy had not its motoring journalism as it deserved, so he started something new. He has driven plenty of cars but not his dream one, the F40: “I refused three times already to drive her, because I didn’t find yet the one. I need to drive her without obstacles and in the right road.”
He has his own private Nurburgring, where he does his tests, in Abruzzo, central Italy. And possibly a good girl waiting uphill to make the run faster…. As time passes by, cars become safer, faster, more practical and more capable in almost every possible way. Some people complain that they are becoming more generic, with less character and feel disconnected from the driver.
Putting aside our nostalgic emotions about the 80s and the 90s, Davide believes that: “it is sadly true, yes. Today only race cars are sincere. Normal cars were similar to actual racers, most dangerous and intriguing. Nowadays if you wanna feel some real thrill of driving you have to go with supercars, and still…. Not the same stuff as 20 years ago. But hey, we are lucky we’re are still in an internal combustion engine era and we can also buy great cars for a small amount of money.”
Having watched most of his videos, we can see that he gives a lot of credit in those who design, build and tune the cars that he drives. In most of the cases, hot hatches are built for people enjoy driving by people who love their work and feel proud of their creations. This is like injecting character into a practical and affordable every day car. He agrees with that, after driving all those iconic hot hatchbacks: “people behind cars make their soul. This is what I mean when I talk about a car with a soul. It is not only metal.”
Should have been born earlier Cironi, who has allowed the transmission to posterity of incalculably valuable heritage otherwise destined to end up in oblivion, so that part of this ancient world hadn’t of gone missing swallowed by silence, so that Giotto Bizzarrini and other giants like him could have left their illuminated message.
An unrepeatable generation whose teaching should have been disclosed in schools. If you look at the futility of today’s topics you wonder how come nobody ever did it before and it’s hard to give yourself an answer. We’re with him who, the only one in the journalistic landscape and not, made himself the architect of a most noble feat: bringing our childhood back to us.
About the many interviews he did Davide says: “in un periodo storico che vede Ferrari come una realtà talmente affermata da essere data per scontata, è sempre bene ricordare con accuratezza cosa veramente è la Ferrari, tramite gli uomini che erano lì già mezzo secolo fa, a prendere l’umido che viene su dalla terra nelle sere modenesi, a respirare quell’aria carica di benzine speciali e sentire in faccia il vento leggero che ti accoltella le guance al tramonto su Fiorano. Sentiamoci fortunati ad avere la possibilità di ascoltare queste interviste in presa diretta, perché l’intera generazione precedente a quella dell’ingegner Forghieri, di Tomaini, di Materazzi, di Gandini, di Stanzani e i tanti altri che abbiamo avuto il privilegio di incontrare, è passata via lasciando pochissime testimonianze in prima persona. Parlano per loro quello che hanno fatto e lasciato al mondo dell’Automobile, ma provate a immaginare quante storie e quanti dettagli, quante espressioni e quante curiosità sono andate perse per sempre.” (at a time which sees Ferrari as a so successful reality to be taken for granted, it’s always good to remember accurately what Ferrari really is, through the men who were there already half a century ago, to get moisture which comes up from the earth on the Modenese nights, to breathe that air full of special fuels and feel in the face the light wind which stabs your cheeks at sunset on Fiorano. We should feel lucky to be able to listen to these live interviews, as the whole generation preceding the one of the engineer Forghieri, of Tomaini, of Materazzi, of Gandini, of Stanzani and the many others we’ve had the privilege of meeting, has gone leaving very few first-person accounts. Speaks for them what they did and left to the Automotive world, but just imagine how many stories and how many details, how many expressions and how many curiosities were lost for good.)
We too want to contribute to this admirable reconstruction of an inimitable era, through recovery and organic ordination of a lot of material, textual, photographic and video, in several languages and often in dialect, available on the Internet. On our web site now relives a really unique gallery of characters, events and objects. And to make it being disclosable and usable worldwide we have chosen to translate our texts in English, the language of our club.
We like to think that Davide’s videos, which taught and revealed us so much, together with our club’s website, have photographed, at least partially, a black and white world much brighter than any other color. A miracle of passion and dedication on which we pride ourselves.
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