What Comes Next? | Lounge

31 March 2020 Redazione News, Supercars Lounge

A month has passed since Italy had to take the painful but fundamental decision to quarantine the whole Country. An almost total paralysis which however sees numerous people putting their lives at risk in order to guarantee services that prevent total health and economic collapse. In a moment of uncertainty, we all find ourselves dealing with an unpredictable situation that revolutionized our life, our thoughts and above all how we look at the future. It is early to claim we did it and in any case, after the high number of victims that the coronavirus has already caused we will not be able to say “it went well”. After the first few days, those who had the chance found themselves rescheduling their work from home, while an incredible number of events – from the smallest ones to international motor shows – were canceled or postponed to the end of the year, sports championships suspended and that feeling of uncertainty that makes us keep our eyes fixed on the calendar hoping everything is going to end soon.

We want our life back and now that it’s not possible for us to live as we have always done, we’ve probably understood that we must never take anything for granted. It only takes a moment and everything changes irreversibly. Having seen an office becoming empty until it was impregnated by the most chilling silence was the first step towards these weeks of quarantine that made us rediscover values ​​that were about to be lost. Our hectic lives, our continuous race against the clock, overflowing agendas, everything has been inexorably shaken now that no noise is heard coming from the streets. And if we have no idea when this nightmare can end, when we close our eyes and let ourselves be warmed by the first and timid rays of spring, with our mind we are exactly where we would like to be. For us driving enthusiasts, it means being able to experience that same sense of freedom you live driving up a mountain road, but it can also be attacking a curb on the last corner of a racing track. Nothing and nobody can ever take away the desire to dream, the desire to reconquer what makes us happy, what makes us alive. And if for the moment we can only plan these things, we are sure that soon these images in our head will take shape again and fill days that we will be appreciated much more than before.

We have to wait, we have to be patient, we have to resist, because the reward for each of these days, for every sacrifice we are making today, will bring a better and closer tomorrow, especially thanks to all the heroes who are on the front line every day for making our world come back to normal, that normalcy that today seems almost a mirage and that tomorrow, attacking a mountain pass with the rev counter pinching the limiter, will be even more exquisite. Because even if the price has already been very high, we will be able to get through this and say Veni, Vidi, Vici once again.

#StaySafe everywhere you are.

Words by Alessandro Marrone / Photo by S. Lomax