Formula 1: Founder of Minnow Forti Team Passes Away

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Published: January 14, 2013

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As a young boy, when Formula racing comes onto your radar, you marvel at the speed and tenacity of those behind the wheel. 

Very rarely at such a tender age do you understand the long hours and commitment required from the masses of talent behind the scenes. You have little knowledge that those people are the stars who create the spectacle. 

When you are finding your feet at this point, when you are looking for a hero to cheer on, you tend to focus on the action at the front. You look to the drivers and teams who eliminate any competition with high performance and natural ability. 

They are the stars of the sport in your eyes. 

You recognise the drivers at the back as being the weaker counterparts. Maybe they do not put the same amount of work in as the big boys at the front. 

This week came the sad news that Guido Forti—founder of the Formula 1 team baring his surname—has passed away. 

At the time when his Forti team competed in their short lived Formula 1 career I was a young lad, just reaching double figures in age. I saw this yellow car at the back of the field, with a name that translated as "strong" and wondered why they were always nowhere near the Williams and Benneton's at the front. 

To try and compensate for this, whenever I played a Formula 1 computer game I would race as Luca Badoer or Roberto Moreno, instead of the likes of Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill, to prove that this "slow" car had what it took to finish anywhere other than last. 



As I grew older and I saw the stunning efforts of teams like Jordan and Stewart Racing, I began to realise just how much work and effort a team like Forti had put in just to make the grid. 

As a "privateer" they had made it into the sport—no matter how briefly—without the backing of a major car manufacturer. They had no...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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