Was Alessio Deledda really THAT bad?

[Music] never thought i'd be here again sounds kind of weird to say that but i just thought after what happened a couple of years ago we wouldn't have to worry about the quality of drivers and now we're stuck with this mug don't know who he is well this dude his name is alessio deleter there are some out there who'll be thinking hang on didn't you already make a video on this guy well yeah yeah i did pretty much this time last year i covered this whole scenario of him posting videos of what looked like him speeding along the order strata in a lamborghini and that ended me in hot water over the fact that you really couldn't prove it was him driving the car now i want to make it plain and clear that i do not believe it was alessio at the wheel of that car what's more no he didn't sue me although neither he nor his lawyer were particularly happy about the video i made so i made that wise choice i guess you could say to take down the video so that i didn't actually end up being sued you know besides i do not think it was him driving that thing because the person driving that car looked to have a clue about what he was doing it looked like the driver had some idea of the fundamentals of driving fast it looked like the driver could i don't know qualify for some races which would automatically disqualify the sky because as we've seen from this guy's exploits on the racetrack he is incapable of qualifying within a 50 mile of the nearest driver in front of him he can barely get through a race without being thrown a lot behind he's that useless now i've seen some drivers in my time but this guy takes the cake like john candy in a bakery fire what fun it's been to see the sentient clumper hair products slowing around at the back of the track like a turd in a punch bowl just great [Music] but was he really that bad or was i being too harsh on this guy should i perhaps revisit it all and consider a few more things because if there's more to the sky than meets the eye then i've gotta hear out his case i mean i don't purposely set out to look for crappy drivers i take no pleasure in tearing them apart but if they're gonna appear out in the open like this then hey it's open season i've got a comment on it no okay maybe i don't but everyone is talking about this dude and not in a good way so let's have a look at this whole thing let's have a look at the story of alessio daletta [Music] howling from italy deleter is a man of many talents for example he can make his cat take a by pointing a key fob at it and holding down the unlock button and he also long held a desire to race since he was eight years old but his father forbade him as he was concerned regarding the dangers of the sport noble reasoning for sure but come on man let your kid live his dreams sure he raced in your run-of-the-mill go-kart track like everyone else does but apart from that nothing so instead he put his focus into his studies attaining a double degree in economics and ade and perhaps maybe probably this would explain how he amassed enough well to realize his dream kind of either way you look at his insta and he's straight up loving the baller lifestyle and hey good for him i'm not at all jealous and eventually at that age he made the call that because he was old enough and he had the wherewithal to do it he told his pops listen buddy i don't want to be here anymore i'm going to go out and become a racing driver nor me into this instead of trying his hand at racing cars he started racing in the italian superstock 600 series which is motor bicycling which i know nothing about but what we do know was that his results were rubbish and it was perhaps after the city decided to switch to four wheels instead diving into the italian f4 championship for 2018. he was all by his onesies driving for techno race that year but irrespective of that his results painted a grim picture a grand total of no points i mean the reason i make this out to be some kind of big deal is because just a few years prior this dude bagged 45 points it seems kind of trivial i know but thinking about where these two have ended up how low has the bar been set and with italian f4 having no shortage of mid jarvis meddling at the back to be here in the standings is yeah and fantasy did improve that season although he improved by his standards take from that what you will and besides lord mahavira over here was beating up bobby sportsie in some races so yeah no i really don't know what to make of this all in any case though he was now 24 years old and you really can't mess around in f4 for too much longer at that age if you're serious about doing anything in racing so despite this amazing success he made the jump over to formula 3 for 2019. he kicked off the year in the euro formula winter series where he got the results that you might have imagined but it was a winter series so it's about as meaningless as a people's choice award or half the sky sports f1 panel or the buffalo's defense in overtime otherwise he raced in the formula renault euro cup and he also did some stuff in the central european zone championship don't give me that oh i don't care garbage because he only did one weekend here and he won it [Applause] but that's where the winning ends one race from here on in it yeah let's move on so one of the other series he did that year was the formula renault euro cup which is hardly a tillywinks championship he was driving alongside javier oliveira's gvs although it was only a part-time schedule racing at monza monaco porocca and spa in that time it was clear just who was the better driver between the two that opening random monster wasn't really helped when he spun under safety car conditions and took another driver with him dames the mess in terms of pace it really didn't get too much better in monaco where he qualified 11.5 seconds off the pole 11.5 seconds 11.5 the pace was still garbage in the race only person in the 34s and was nearly lapped in the first one and it was a 20 lakh race how do you nearly get lapped in a 20 like junior race is he taking the piss he did the next two rounds but after that he left the series it was clear that he was way out of his depth here but the reason why he left the series was because he switched focus entirely to another series he was racing that year although given how much of a struggle formula renault was it'd be pretty stupid if he was racing fia f3 for example right no one would be that stupid right welcome to a new era for formula three in this series he was driving over at campos alongside sebastian fernandez and alex perrone now both sebastian and weirdo yonkovic are both bloody good drivers so alessio did have some talent to go up against in that squad he christened the start of the season by spinning into the sandbox in the first race which is hardly ideal having said that he pulled it together nicely for the second race and actually his pace wasn't too bad so props to him on that one i guess but come the next round of france he went right back to meet again when he qualified over two seconds slower than the next car ahead of him he was nearly five seconds after poll time and in the races he fell so far behind that the officials died money for him to finish the race no lie he qualified slowest in austria and was nowhere in the races but i bet this dude was laughing his ass off when he saw both his teammates smash into each other in that second race i guess he could take the dub over that one silverstone he qualified slowest there too and again he was nowhere in the races he was sort of leading a boring life in the series and it was only halfway through the damn season qualifying was still an issue for him but then at monza something amazing happened i'm not lost i'm second to last yeah he kind of upped his game a little bit how qualifying a dude here and there race results were still nothing though it wasn't really that good when all was said and done he finished the year and 29th the lowest place driver in the standings and his stint and macau wasn't brilliant either qualifying at the back and finishing worlds behind in the race really not that brilliant but for some reason he thought it'd be a good idea to compete in f3 for another season and while he was at it was going to compete in the asian f3 series to sharpen his skills he was gonna need it actually while we're on the subject how did he do in that series well he was paired up with high tech which is honestly a good enough team let's put it that way and he was paired up with yukio sahara who was a pretty good driver himself and nikita mazapan so anyway ukyo ended up winning a few races that year although he didn't count for points in that series marmaspin nabbed up a few podiums himself to take third in the series the letter however didn't quite achieve those results he was down in 15th overall with the best result of seventh coming in thailand now i don't mean to be rude but that's a little it's like getting shut out by the pittsburgh pirates not a serious driver i'm afraid but if you wanted to shut everyone up i guess he did just that in the first round of the championship when he out qualified his teammate sophia flourish [Applause] [Music] but he threw it all away in the first race when he got a stop go penalty for donkeying up the start procedure this put him a let down and last in the running order bummer the next race though was way better starting from last on the grid he jumped all the way up to p20 ahead of some established names yeah a few things had to happen before he got there but you gotta take what you can get in this game he qualified last in the next round and a gamble on ties did not pay off in race one race two though again was much better and he honestly didn't look too bad in that race not gonna lie he was brought right back down to earth though with the next round when he qualified last over six seconds slower than the pole time and 2.6 seconds slower than the next slowest driver god lord have mercy on our soul race 1 was decent but then in race 2 he went straight back to drowning there was a pattern emerging here and not a particularly brilliant one either silverson was better in the sense that he qualified last but not extremely last it was shall we say acceptably last if there ever is such a thing he kind of hurt his weekend by damaging his front wing after hitting jack doo and who wasn't very happy what a joke honestly it all starts from qualifying we want to be back with these numpties i don't know how to drive every two weekends in a row now when jack dylan gets angry at you you know you done up new round same circuit and same result on qualifying last and retired from the second race after trying to get a little bit too close to some of those around him the next round was in barcelona you win no prizes for guessing where he qualified race one looked a little bit promising but as was the way with him race 2 had to throw up something yeah it threw up a rock which punctured the radiator and threw him out of the race unlucky it should be worth mentioning that in practice he spun off in the same place he did the previous year which was kind of impressive when you think about it actually i've thought about it and it's kind of sad and just to show him who was boss he did it again in qualifying for good measure he didn't qualify last in spa but he did spin off into the gravel and race one which yeah i got i got nothing there qualified toward the back and monza but delivered and not terribly crap weekend overall when all was said and done he was back to business in the last round of mijello however when he qualified last he was also the last of the runners in both races to cap off the season finishing 34th that year which was somehow worse than what he managed the year before and then you gotta consider the performance comparison to his teammates it was night and day sure sophia struggled but perroni was out there challenging for podiums on the weekly that said it is a high level of competition we are talking about the best up and coming drivers in the category now that we've had these two years of master classry moving up to a higher category would not be a wise move to put it diplomatically and then that whole video fiasco happened to put him under a microscope a lot more and once again i do not think it was him driving the car non-guida capiche but yeah moving up to formula 2 would be the stupidest thing in the world as well as being the most predictable thing and he was signed by hwa in january 2021. now a lot of people thought this was a complete joke but i was hardly shocked not least because the leader had money but those teams do need it and not every driver in the world can fork out two to three million a year to drive an unreliable car made by people to spineless them in the problems with it but that's a whole other story he also took part in the asian f3 winter series again which went well but formula 2 was the focus that year and i really was not prepared for what was to come given we were all billy over the shot of this guy's gymnastics a couple years prior f2 is a category which is tricky enough for the best of rookie drivers so bring in a 26 year old italian playboy with a reputation for driving slower than john daly on low blood sugar levels and then with the team that really needed an experienced driver this whole campaign could end up sinking faster than the lusitania his teammate that year was massio nanini a good driver for sure but he wasn't attained for share or liam lawson or a bobby schwarze or an oscar pastry but not everyone is and he was a decent benchmark for the letter at least so to qualify two seconds off of him was um i mean make your own minds up over that one i guess he claimed a lot of these large deficits in qualifying with down to red flags but say it with me people that's racing he finished last of the runners in the first race and he didn't finish the second one but he would come back fighting in the feature race to retire on the first lap so with all that having been done the f2 circus headed to monaco and oh boy now remember how he qualified 11.5 seconds slower than the pole time in formula renault well doing that here again would pretty much make him not qualify so it was in his best interest that he'd not tried to do that again well he he goofed up he didn't qualify but the officials allowed him to race anyway because i mean hey why not well there were a hell of a lot of reasons why not to but there was no time for rational solutions here race one he was lapped with lap times they were at best around four seconds slower race two he was left again and was even more off the pace than he was before although he did finish 12th in that race thanks to everyone dying so i guess that's a bonus feature race comes around and again he was lat finishing ahead only of teammate jack aiken who was experiencing enough troubles in that race to conclude that ah screw it european junior series are not worth it anymore although in absolute fairness to alessio he did improve he was only a couple seconds off everyone else instead of being a few seconds off the pace he did make improvements that weekend so hey credit where critters do and all that other good jazz baku i don't exactly have to open matlock to guess where he qualified again he was dumped out of the first race thanks to some interesting driving i think we could say that took out multiple drivers he finished well down in race two and a lap behind in the feature race where he almost ran into leader yuri vips when he came up to lap him again we have to ask ourselves at this point what is the point of all of this and again he qualified last in silverstone nearly four seconds off the pace his acrobatics in race one resulted in retirement and in race two he had a little bit of a tango with ralph boshong all right it was a decent smack feature race wasn't much cop either he was a lap down again monza last in qualifying again he finished 13th in race one though which was great if you ignore all the retirements but as they say you can't win a race unless you finish it yeah race 2 was a boar fest for him but a chain of events in the feature i saw him run as high as fourth once the safety car period had ended holy crap could this be a change of form for him could he hold on to take his first podium in formula 2 his first podium in this level of competition his first podium and okay i'll stop i'll stop he drowned and i mean it was always going to end that way given the strategy but compared to others that were in the same deal it was a massacre sochi qualifying blah blah blah finished last yada yada yada the round in russia did nothing for him so he'd have to look to saudi arabia for some reprieve that is the first time in human history that anyone has ever said that hitting the wall in practice though meant that qualifying would not happen for him the officials though were more than happy to allow him to race and so the show went on in race one there were technical gremlins which killed his run and samae's territorial dispute dumped him out of the second race as well with the last race being an all due to a horrifying crash the leader was left with only one round to showcase his skill at abu dhabi question was could he lift himself off the back row of the grids and break the streak no he did a bit better in the races though finishing not last in the first one although this all came to a shattering hole in the next race when he and ollie corvwell argued over the same piece of racetrack and ended up climbing over each other which must have dented his confidence somewhat because in the final race of the championship he'd finished a long way down on everyone else he finished 2021 p25 in the standings the last of the full-time drivers and now that we've run through his career was he really that bad well yeah he wasn't brilliant and by f2 standards he was but i will say this this dude's car racing career properly started at 23 years old there are drivers out there who have retired before they reach 23. when you lose that much time behind the wheel of a car you're not just trying to make up for lost ground you're straight up almost certainly never going to catch up and the thing is this in an interview he spoke candidly about what he wanted to do in racing about how he understands where he sits on the food chain that he understood that formula one was not likely for him and that's more than can be said about the other dude who is still hell-bent on making it into the top fighter motorsport despite the fact that dude can't drive and the difference is he started karting at a young age he had the experience that alessio didn't and yet despite still being a comparison he did improve over the weekends and there were more than enough times he was hanging onto the coattails of drivers who were decent enough as they were i suppose ultimately here's how i summarize all of this that tirade at the start of the video is reflective of how some people legitimately viewed the guy simply because he was slow enough to gather algae was at the back of the field constantly was always getting lapped and that he was taking away seats that should have gone to more deserving people now does he belong on the f1 feeder series circuit or even a formula one itself hell no god no no but if you had the wherewithal to do what he's doing and you've long wanted to be a racing driver yourself would you not do it after being told at a young age that the sport is too dangerous and that he wouldn't be allowed to do it i know you're probably wondering why i've gone soft on this guy but trust me i have not he should not be anywhere near f3 or f2 but he's not the only one it's just that i can't really give this guy too much given what he's had to overcome what he's had to learn and given that from what i've been taught from fellow drivers and people who have worked with him he's apparently a decent dude sometimes we kind of forget the human factor in all of this even i do sometimes but light does need to be shown on that even if his driving ain't that great although his driving ain't graced by formula 2 standards and that's a high bar no matter how many mid drivers you may think are in it another thing to mention is that money is what makes the sport work the rich kids and playboys are what keeps the sport alive whether we like to admit that or not [Music] and ultimately how can we be so cruel to a dude when all that he's doing is realizing his dream for as far back as he could remember all he's ever wanted was to be a racing driver [Music] anyways thank you all for watching drop a comment below subscribe to the channel if you're awesome and always remember keep it respectful be wholesome don't be a man and as always i'll see you all later [Music] you

Channel: Josh Revell

Views: 433,810

Keywords: F1, Formula 1, F2, Formula 2, Alessio Deledda, Deledda, Italy

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Length: 17min 37sec (1057 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 03 2022