Giovanni Minardi and Minardi Management are pleased to welcome Achille Rea, a young karting promise from Frosinone – class of 2013.

At six years old, in the 2019/20 season, he starts racing in the Entry Level category, winning the Lazio Regional Championship on debut, becoming the youngest ever winner. Having obtained the National licence, at the age of eight, he starts racing in the Italian Championship – Mini Gr3 category – as well as some WSK events.

Starting from this season Achille will be followed in his growth path by Giovanni Minardi, who will see him as a protagonist in the WSK circuit, where this weekend he will be involved in Cremona in the 2nd round of the WSK Open Series with CRG – U10 material, in the Italian ACI Championship and IAME X30 Mini.

Giovanni Minardi: “I am very happy to start working with Achille, I have been following him for months and I have been very impressed by the ease he possesses in learning the things he is told, he is very fast and has great potential. I am sure that with him we will have fun and achieve a lot of satisfaction.”

Achille Rea: “I am happy and proud to have joined Minardi Management and I hope to deserve this opportunity and with the help of Giovanni Minardi crown my dream: one day racing in the Formula 1 World Championship.”

Thanks to the close collaboration between Giovanni Minardi and Dr. Riccardo Ceccarelli, Minardi Management drivers have the great opportunity to train and prepare for races supported by the Formula Medicine team, a leading center in training methodologies, thanks to the results of innovative research directly contact with Formula 1 drivers for thirty years now.
Throughout the season the runners will be followed in both individual and group training. The first internship is scheduled from 28 February to 2 March and will involve Manuel Quondamcarlo (born in 2007), Mattia Bucci (born in 2007), Giacomo Pedrini (born in 2008) and Thomas Baldassarri (born in 2008).

Riccardo Ceccarelli – CEO Formula Medicine “If today Formula Medicine is a consolidated worldwide reality in the field of driver training, it is also thanks to the experience acquired during the eight years of collaboration – starting from 1993 – with the Minardi F1 Team where I had possibility of carrying out numerous studies and research on which Formula Medici still bases the preparation of all young talents. In those years I met Giovanni and his father, appreciating not only professional but also human qualities. Today having the possibility of strengthening this relationship through the collaboration with Minardi Management, aimed at the growth of its young talents, represents for me the same honor that had distinguished my years in F1”

Giovanni Minardi – Chief Executive Officer of Minardi Management «I am very happy to re-establish a collaboration with Riccardo and his structure which today is a leader in the sector of physical and mental preparation for pilots. I’m sure this will be an added value for all my drivers and it will certainly pay off.»

After last year’s successes in the Italian and German Formula 4 championships and the seal at the FIA ​​Motorsport Games in Le Castellet, Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s new season began with the conquest (as a rookie) of the title in the Formula Regional Middle East.

At the wheel of the Prema single-seater of the Indian team Mumbai Falcons, the 16-year-old from Bologna imposed himself on the Kuwait Motor Town and Dubai Autodrome tracks, both in the general and rookie standings, closing the championship with 192 points in the standings.

Now “Kimi”‘s efforts will be aimed at the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine which will start on April 23 from the Imola racetrack with a calendar made up of ten appointments on the most prestigious circuits including Spa-Francorchamps, Mugello, Monza and Hockenaim, also passing through Barcelona, ​​Hungaroring, Le Castellet, Spielberg and Zandvoort.