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…
Looking back at the career of Elio de Angelis, the popular Italian who became synonymous with Lotus but was needlessly killed in a testing accident with Brabham 20 years ago.
Elio De Angelis. 23 anni, romano (ma residente a Montecarlo come molti colleghi di Formula 1), scapolo insidiatissimo, è entrato nel gran circo grazie ai quattrini del padre ma ha saputo rapidamente…
Elio de Angelis could not only out-qualify Senna in an identical car, he was also a virtuoso pianist. Mark Hughes remembers this complex man and asks why he never realised his potential.
