Bobsleigh
The famous American television network, was interested in the new Italian bob developed by the Italian National Olympic Committee in collaboration with Ferrari, which will debut soon in the first round of the World Cup, and that should bring the driver Simone Bertazzo at the top of the discipline .
Wednesday 30 October 2013 4 minutes reading time
"'' The idea behind this project was born from the desire to improve the performance of CONI Italian athletes in those disciplines where the technological component plays an important role," said Deputy Secretary of CONI Carlo Monati CNN, " To do that we shared the different knowledge and skills that our institution has with those of Ferrari, "he preseguito Monati, adding," we have chosen the bob because it is the sport that is closest to the world of motorsport and where Ferrari could better share their ideas with our own. "
The collaboration between the Maranello and CONI began in 2006, leading to the creation of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic bobsleigh used to. '' Unfortunately, in that occasion, the means born of this important joint venture, it was not competitive because ill-suited to the driving style of the driver Simone Bertazzo. Two years later the same bob was entrusted to the young South Tyrolean Patrick Baumgartner, who led by Comrade Alexander the Great conquered the'' gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck 2012.
In the new project, the relationship between Ferrari and CONI has become more intense. Simone Bertazzo, bronze winner in 2007, was more involved and thanks to his advice was made a bob that according to initial descent seems to give encouraging indications.
"Ferrari has listened to our advice to the letter of carrying out very detailed studies," said Bertazzo, to add, "the cones had a very crucial role in this project as it was in charge of coordination."
The house pony has made available for this initiative'' the experience of some engineers who have worked in the world of Formula 1, "For this project we selected engineers of different corporate departments by creating an ad hoc working team," he told the television network '' Ferdinando Cannizzo the engineer, "with the new working group we intrappreso this new challenge and the results seem to justify this, we'll see how things will go on."
The work of the Italian National Olympic Committee and the Ferrari was not limited only to the world of bob, but has been extended in other winter sports such as downhill skiing, and summer as archery bow'' and cannotaggio .
All that remains, therefore, expect that the'' last weekend of November, when Bertazzo and company debuts with the new medium in the World Cup, to verify the goodness of this project strongly supported by the president of FIS Flavio Roda.
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