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F1's super Mario: Back on the frontline

Mario Isola is an atypical F1 hero.  In fact he's more fictional superhero: responsible day job; costume change and special missions by night.  Only he's for real.  Pirelli's Head of F1 first volunteered as a paramedic at 18 and has served for 30 years in Milan ambulances.  After a fortnight in isolation on his return to Italy (a Pirelli employee working in Melbourne tested positive for coronavirus) he was quickly back on the frontline as the epidemic in his homeland reached its height. "Last Sunday I was on my night shift and starting at 7pm," he tells me. "We never came back until five in the morning. We had one mission after another mission and after a...
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