Riccardo Patrese Archives • Unfinished Symphony • My tribute to Elio de Angelis

A Brother’s Memory

14 October 2023

Elio De Angelis. I don’t think he was one of us. A normal person, I mean. Elio De Angelis represented, and represents even more today, an exception. A wonderful exception…

Born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth as the son of a wealthy Roman building contractor, Elio de Angelis made up his mind from an early age that he should carve his own niche in the world…

Elio e Riccardo su il BT55

12 August 2022

Le interviste • Soddisfatti Patrese e de Angelis. La nuova posizione di guida non infastidisce i piloti, pienamente convinti di avere fra le mani una vettura con cui puntare al titolo.

Elio and Riccardo about the BT55

12 August 2022

The Interviews • Satisfied Patrese and de Angelis. The new driving position does not bother the drivers, fully convinced that they have a car in their hands with which can fight for the title.

Bar Motorsport

12 May 2022

Stellar (!) Episode of “Bar Legend”. We will remember Elio De Angelis exactly 36 years after his death in the tragic Paul Ricard accident at the wheel of the F1 Brabham BT55.

Interview for Autosport • 1983

26 March 2022

He lives in a villa situated on one of the Roman hills, together with his father, his brothers and sister, and a few servants. Every morning he gets into his tracksuit and goes running to keep fit…

How the tragedy of Elio de Angelis changed F1

21 October 2021

Thirty-five years ago Elio de Angelis lost his life after a fiery accident at Paul Ricard that should have had a less serious outcome – and from which the sport learned valuable lessons…

Touched by Angelis

1 October 2021

F1’s Fiat Pack – Eddie Cheever, Elio de Angelis and Riccardo Patrese – strode the pit lanes of the world in the 1970s and ‘80s. They all grew up in Italy; They all raced karts – for fun at first and then…

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