Jean the father, Giuliano the son. The surname has Italian origins (to be precise: Sicilian) but is French: Alesi, with the accent on the “i”. The color is the same: the red of the Ferrari.
The news is of those that unite two generations on the thread of a memory that can become the future, because in 1991 Jean became a Cavallino rider and thirty years later – January 2021 – his son Giuliano – which has been part of the Ferrari Driver Academy project for years – he is currently driving the Maranello Red in the first tests of the year, on the Fiorano track.
From father to son, as is happening more and more often at Ferrari, which also includes Mick Schumacher, son of Michael.
There are seven drivers who are driving the 2018 SF71H: with the two officers, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, there is also Mick Schumacher (he will make his F1 debut with Haas) and Giuliano Alesi, who in his curriculum boasts experience in Formula 2 and in Formula 3 and – let’s put it this way – it’s running in.
The boy is 21 years old and was born in Avignon in 1999, the son of Jean and the Japanese actress and model Kumiko Goto. His father Giovanni Roberto Alesi – renamed Jean – was 35 at the time, he drove a Sauber and was in the decline of his beautiful career. A path, that of Alesi father, which had its moment of greatest importance in the four years driving the Ferrari, from 1991 to 1995, with 79 GP courses and a very strong bond with the people of the Cavallino.
He arrived in Maranello in a period of lean cows, as the second guide of his compatriot Alain Prost and took a victory – the only one in a GP – in 1995, in Canada, on his 31st birthday. “I am very excited to see my son driving a Ferrari, ”said Alesi, who in the post-career first worked as a test driver and for some years as an appreciated commentator (also known to Italian viewers for his work in RAI). It was Jean who pushed Giuliano at racing, since childhood; it was he who supported him (looking for sponsors, paying out of his own pocket) in his growth path.
The truth – beyond the future developments and Giuliano’s career – is that being affected by the names of Alesi and Schumacher approaching Ferrari makes the Red fans take a step back in time. It is a dive into a past in which drivers and Formula 1 were closer to the people, more capable – with their victories but also with their frailties – to leave a trace in the memory.
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