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The autochthonous Rex

My dream was to be a CT pilot...

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I've been asked hundreds of times why I used the pseudonym REX, rather than my real name in my sports career. Well, here goes my story of the facts. My dream was to be a CT pilot. I remember that I was about 5 or 6 years old when I discovered one of the four passions of my life: auto racing. Another day I'll talk in detail about the other three... my heart was getting out of my heart watching the race cars. He loved the noise of the engines, the “perfume” of naphtha mixed with castor oil that was used at that time, the “scent” of burnt tire, see the riders... That: seeing the riders with their helmet on, and imagine that I was one of them. I was accompanying my dad (renowned racing engine coach) whenever he could. I insisted until tiredness to take me to the racetrack to watch races whatever it was. It was precisely He who conveyed to me the love of motorsport and passion x racing cars. I loved going to his factory, helping him in the assembly of the engines and admiring the accuracy with which everything was done. But my dream was to be a TC pilot... How could I do to achieve it? Especially, when my Mom intimidated Dad to immediately take away from my house a Formula 5 (monopose racing car) that my old man had bought so that I could, at age 12, do my first steps in the motor._ “Adamoli (mom called him x his surname when he was I was really angry), you take this car from here, but the two are going together,” and he added ''I didn't bring children to the world to be killed on top of a racing car,” closing all chance to start me as a driver since I was a child, as God commands.A few years later, already With 19 years old, with my brother we opened a family business of special spare parts for racing cars and thus commercialize my father's developments, along with countless other related products, and thus have our income and 'bancarnos' the faculty (I by that time will have our income and 'bancarnos” the faculty (by that time I will be able to make the most of our own.iacute; started the law career and my brother Agronomy). That wasn't a coincidence. I thought about it based on being closer to what I really wanted to do: race in cars, whatever it may be... Mom was helping us manage the business, which made it almost impossible for me to have contact with a race car without her knowing. But I found out. I can be REX, like the Masked, brother of METEORO, who after a strong argument with his father about an accident where he wrecked a car, left his house and never again knew about him, until years later he turned into REX, Corredor X, whose identity no one ever heard of him. discovered.“Ready, I change my name, I use the pseudonym REX and so I can start running without Dad and especially mom knowing,” I thought. And so it was. I started running with a fiat 600 in the Formula 07 category, where 2 years later I would be lucky to be out Champion, winning 10 of the 11 races I ran. I ran several years in zonal categories, without Mom knowing, until finally found out that I was REX, He kicked me out of the house and had to take refuge at my girlfriend's house at that time. Three days later, he came looking for me and said, “Your father wants you to come back” (I was never going to admit he missed me), but the condition was that I never run again, which I promised him about 5 or 6 times more, with my fingers crossed, obvious.Later I started my sports career to national level in Turismo Nacional class 2, where I could quickly win, until in 2000 I reached the TC Track (previous category and forced step before TC), where I get the Argentine sub championship, finally in 2001, achieve what I dreamed all my life: being a TC driver. I wasn't going to look at the races behind a wire fence anymore; was he one of them... my mom? Little by little he got used to it and even accompanied me to many races, but he never stopped suffering every start. And until the day of his death he kept repeating this advice before every race: Baby, I ran slowly...

Publication Date: 25/09/2018

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