Bologna, September 14, 2026 – It is impossible to turn the red tide (the Ferrari fans) into a silver river (the color of the Mercedes cars) because we cannot give up the support we carry with us from birth. However, what we saw in Monza was incredible. And extraordinary. Something that only the freshness and genuineness of Kimi Antonelli could achieve. Bringing everyone together and making everyone happy on a Sunday when Ferrari, a national pride, was never really in the race (for the podium). Kimi unites everyone with his simplicity.
Now he is also popular on TV, in commercials, where he seems like the experienced actor (the testimonial) and Alex Del Piero, another icon, the newcomer.
Kimi Antonelli’s fans, a fan club is still missing (for now) in his city
It’s Kimi-mania, in short. Although, in the shadow of the Two Towers, there is a small paradox. It has been a year now that the ‘little-big-prince’ wins and convinces.
But in Bologna there is still no fan club to celebrate his achievements. There are fans of Bologna, those of Virtus and Fortitudo. In the past, there were fan clubs for Alberto Tomba – another legend of this city – but nothing yet for Kimi.
Possible? Yet we are just a few steps from Marche where Valentino Rossi, with his number 46 and a vast line of fans, made it his trademark.
Yet Kimi is friends with Jannik Sinner, for whom, for some time now, the ‘Carota-boys’ have gone wild.
And considering Kimi’s spontaneity, there is no shortage of ideas. One could respond to the ‘Carota-boys’ with the ‘Tagliatelle-brothers’ or the ‘Lasagna-forever’ given the culinary passions Antonelli has always shown.
Bologna evaluates, senses, and embraces him. And soon, we are sure, a fan club for Kimi will be born. After all, with his popularity, he has already caught the attention of politics.
In Bologna, there are already those who, rightly considering him a ‘brand’ of the city worldwide, want to award him the Golden Neptune.
The F1 World Championship closes at the last corner
But the world championship, even if Kimi’s lead over his immediate pursuers is significant, is still long. And, although fresh, young, and aggressive, to the point of having partially replaced – in the collective imagination – the Prancing Horse with the exuberant (but always polite) kid, Kimi has a ‘weak point’.
Call it superstition, call it luck. But Kimi, precisely, who sees far ahead, after breaking a thousand records, is the first to know that the Formula One world championship will be decided at the last corner, of the last lap. Only then, possibly – for superstition, one does not say what he might do – will it be time for a real celebration.
For a fan club in his Bologna (but all his friends and former classmates from Salvemini who praise him are there) and for the Golden Neptune. There is time until December 6 (on paper the Abu Dhabi GP).
