How a veteran tech guru is constantly learning
Giorgio Piola has been spotting and exquisitely illustrating Formula 1's tech secrets for half a century. And the great thing about F1, he tells GP Racing, is that he's still learning new tricks every race...
Last year Formula 1 reached its 1000th world championship grand prix. Amid much pageantry and retrospective brouhaha at the race in question - China - the commercial rights holder also paid tribute to the grandee storytellers of the paddock, awarding one of its newly minted celebratory precious metal coins to the journalist who had covered the most F1 races.
That record belongs, indisputably, to Giorgio Piola, for whom China 2019 was his 811th working grand prix.
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