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Frank Colapinto This Thursday is a special day in his life. In the midst of his First day in the Formula 1 paddock had, in addition to the welcome greetings and his face printed on posters, a Funny conversation with the interviewer of a Spanish media outlet who is also a motoristThe 31-year-old woman is called Christine Giampaoli Zonca and is a reporter for the network DAZN. “Happy racing driver racing around the world!”the young woman describes herself on her social networks.
On her website she says that Christine GZ, as she publicly identifies herself, “is one of the fastest drivers” currently working. “Pioneering diversity awareness in motorsport in 2021 with Extreme E (an electric off-road car racing category)”it is officially added. In addition to being a protagonist in this sport and having the respective knowledge, it is highlighted that the young woman speaks three languages, English, Italian and Spanish, which would help her in her tasks as a chronicler.
Christine Giampaoli Zonca
“Christine is a championship-winning off-road driver, with experience on snow, ice, sand, gravel and asphalt”stands out. On her social networks, there are many images of her surrounded by vehicles of all kinds, in pits and involved in the world of motorsports.
The young woman was born on July 22, 1993 in Pondicherry, India, but years later she obtained Italian nationality after moving to the country where her parents were from and Spanish nationality when she went to live in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. In 2012 she had her first experience as a driver as one of the participants in a rally held in Spain.. After that, the local Championship and the American Baja 1000 would arrive, among other competitions.
Christine Giampaoli Zonca@christinegz
In January of this year, the rider made her debut in the Dakar Rally under the protection of the TC Racing team of Thibaut Courtois, the Real Madrid goalkeeper.. Christine GZ participated in the Side by side category, Light Vehicles (the so-called SSV) together with the Argentine Ricardo Adrián Torlaschithe man with ten Dakar rallies’ worth of experience.
In that competition they finished 13th with a total time of 70 hours, 57 minutes and 22 seconds at the helm of a T4. In fact, that was the vehicle used by DAZN to announce the arrival of Christine GZ to the F1 team on DAZN.
A long time ago, in a interviewChristine told part of her story: “The motorsport world is a bit complicated because everything is expensive. I started in the Canary Islands, where it was a bit cheaper, but I still needed money. So I became a mechanic and from there I started building my car and step by step, until I got to the Dakar!”.
“Taking part in the Dakar was a dream from the beginning. And here it is. I know Ricky [por Torlaschi] “I’ve been racing with you for a long time and it helped me a lot. My first race in the world championship was the Rally Sonora. I had never had an experience like that with a co-driver who can make the difference. It changed my life and I said: ‘I will always race with you!’” he continued.
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