Fernando Alonso pays tribute to Adrián Campos with a special helmet in Monza: “He saw me in a kart race and trusted me”
One of the most fundamental figures in the sporting career of Fernando Alonso was Adrián Campos. He was his mentor, crucial to helping him in a world that is so expensive and in which it is so difficult to climb, in his transition to single-seaters, to pursue his dream in F1. And now, in the Italian GP, in Monzathe man from Oviedo wants to pay tribute to the figure of Adriandied in January 2021.
As Aston Martin announced on its social networks, Fernando Alonso will pay him one of the best tributes he could do by competing this weekend in monza with a special helmet design almost identical to the one Adrián Campos wore when he drove in F1 (from Brazil 1987 to San Marino 1988) in Minardi, the same team in which Fernando Alonso debuted in 2001.
“A nod to the place where it all began. Adrián was the first to discover Fernando’s talentbecame his first representative and helped him take his first steps in the world of racing. Formula. Now, “His iconic helmet returns to the Monza track, with his family there to share the moment.”expressed the Aston Martin team on their social networks.
Then, Alonso himself talked about it on his Instagram.
“It is a very special helmet, in tribute to Adrián and the entire Campos family. Adrián saw me at a kart race and told me that I had to try the single-seaters. “He trusted me, gave me that first opportunity and, years later, took me to F1,” He expressed, noting that he will “always” be “grateful for everything he did for me and for our sport.”
“An unmatched legacy that continues with the Campos Racing team,” he said about a team that is now one of the benchmarks in the single-seater promotion categories on the final ladder to F1 and that is now directed by Adrián Campos Jr.
The Spaniard will have one of his “most difficult races of the year”, as Fernando himself said at a press conference, due to the low power of his Honda engine on such a straight track. He will fight against everything pushed by the strength that Adrián gives him, one of the fundamental pillars in his career. He will pilot in his memory.
