Davide RIPARBELLI

The Boss.

Despite his father’s wish to see him wear the jersey of a football team, from the very beginning his passion was for four-wheelers.

His adventure in racing began at the age of 12 when, at a race on the Monza circuit, he came into contact with the person who would later teach him everything he knows, Simon Hadfield. For the next 10 years, Davide spent a month every summer working for his team in England, learning both the job and the language. 2005 was the breakthrough year: after finishing high school, Davide accepted Simon’s offer and moved to England for good to gain a year’s experience there. In the end, he stayed there for four years, during which he learned everything there was to learn, or almost everything there was to learn: ‘Every day you learn something new’, he used to say. his teacher kept repeating.

Back in Italy, he brought with him the desire to open his own team and the wish has come true.

Enrico SPAGGIARI

The Business Partner.

The sounds, colours and smells of racing cars entered Enrico’s heart from an early age.

Thanks to the ‘virus’ passed on by his father, he began to attend racetracks as a child and was immediately struck by the fascination and emotions that historic cars can transmit. With the passing of time, his passion increased and at the age of 16, instead of spending the usual boring summer holidays between games with marbles on the beach and swimming in the sea, he decided to ‘get his hands dirty’ and began to learn about racing cars up close, knocking on the door of Classic Team Lotus in England. Alternating between studying and racing, he graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Parma and in 2006 realised his ambition of becoming a driver, competing on the tracks of Europe and Italy both with Touring and Gt cars and formula 1 single-seaters, winning the 2011 European Historic Grand Prix Cars Association championship for formula 1 pre-1966.

Louis QUINIOU

The Team Manager.

It all started in 1996 when at the age of 6 he witnessed a grid of sports prototypes taking on Eau Rouge on a foggy morning. Since then, he pursued the wish to work his passion.

In 2004, he followed in the footsteps of his peers and took on a summer job at Simon Hadfield Motorsport where he would meet Davide and learn the skills and crafts from the Boss and team members over a few summers. He would then move on to events, assisting his father in running the Grand Prix de l’Age d’Or, passing on to the Competitor’s office at Peter Auto before joining the FIA in 2005 for 8 years, taking on the task of strengthening the Historic department, its regulatory system, developing the FIA Historic Database and the Historic Technical Passport administration which he headed for a number of years.

In 2023, he decided to move on and come back to simpler things, getting back to what started his passion and applying his knowledge to developing the team, with almost 20 years of friendship with Davide, and numerous jokes about a possible work position, it all came together from season 2024.