SERGIO MARCHIONNE REQUIRES LUCA CORDERO FERRARI TAILOR TO LEAVE AFTER 23 YEARS OF PRESIDENCY. NOW EVEN THE “RED” BECOME AMERICAN

The Ferrari becomes American. It will have a key role in the group Fca (once called Fiat) in the listing and on Wall Street. Luca Cordero di Montezemolo speaks of “the end of an era” and it does so on the day that is his official departure from the scene after “the presidency lasted almost 23 years wonderful and unforgettable.” Years passed alongside Enzo Ferrari in the seventies and finished with Marchionne, the new strong man of the company that produced cars in Italy and who is now head and heart in Detroit. Montezemolo is man and manager of class and education that even before he left thanks “exceptional men and women in the factory, in the office, in the fields of competition, markets around the world that were the real creators of the great growth in recent years company, of the many memorable victories and success of the brand has become thanks to them one of the strongest in the world. A greeting and a thank you to all of our technical and commercial partners, to dealers in each country and in particular to customers and collectors with whom I share the same passion. “Then he wishes “to shareholders, and in particular to Piero Ferrari, discendende who invented the Red Maranello, that I was getting close, and all the people of the company many more years of success that Ferrari deserves”
There are no greetings and thanks to those facade di Montezemolo. After 23 years at the helm of the Red Army, made ​​of great success for the Ferrari Luca di Montezemolo is really “the finest company in the world” and when he says, “for me it was a great privilege and honor of having been the leader” is sincere . How is sincere sorrow for the form and the substance with which he was asked to step aside. She might have left him at the end of the year, certainly to him the excuse of the difficult time of the racing department seemed childish to put it in condition to leave. But that’s how life goes, that’s how they work the large industrial groups and that is how Sergio Marchionne wants the Fca functions: a large automotive group that was already American. Marchionne, however, granted the honors of war to Montezemolo. “The future of Ferrari Luca and I discussed at length. Our common desire to see the Ferrari express his true potential on the track led us to some misunderstandings that have emerged publicly last weekend. I thank him for what was done for the Fiat and Ferrari for me. “What will you do now Montezemolo? Something new and important. A hypothesis on the carpet, even closer in time, is that expressed by the CEO of Unicredit, Federico Ghizzoni, that when asked to comment on the assumption that land to the presidency of the new airline Alitalia-Ethihad, may be Luke’s Montezemolo, Ferrari will leave that to October, dry responded: “Given the experience of Montezemolo might be a good name.”