Luca was born in Rome where he lived his early years, his passion for racing and speed has been there since he was 4-5 yy and used to go downhill with his pedal kart in the Tuscan hills where he used to spend part of his summers with his family, the rest was in Greece where he fell in love with the sea a love that lasts untill now with Surfing and that is a key part of his free time.
After Rome, Luca lived in Palermo, Swizerland where he went to boarding school, Milano, where he went to University and than Shanghai P.R.C where he set up his consultancy business. He than moved back to Rome and had been working for 3 years communting with Palermo where he worked on the family owned Giornale di Sicilia.
Next stop, Unknown!
Luca had a late start in Go Karts at 17yy, if you think that Verstappen is now in F1, but this did not stop him to move to Formulas the following year and to become at 19 a Championship contenter at his second year racing. The level was high, there was a Go Karting World Champion and several more experienced drivers but Luca showed a speed and maturity that for a driver of his experience was quite stunning.
At his 3rd race in a race car it was raining and he was in Pole untill a few minutes from the end when he got surpassed due to drying track and started 3rd but his real masterpiece of driving came in the final race of the ’93 season where Luca had an accident on the second lap and lost the nose of his car and had bent the rear wing of it. An average driver would have called it a stop and would have retired but Luca did not give up and driving in slick tires under a light rain that made the asphalt like ice he drove like a madman passing everyone and gaining the victory of his early racing career. In that race there was also 2 times FIA GT World Champion Thomas Biagi and 24hrs of Spa Winner and multiple GT Winner Paolo Ruberti.
