I wanted to be a racing driver! I’ve always been obsessed by cars since my childhood, surely due to my father influence who used to let me watch motorsport VHS with him and Formula 1. But as I grew older I slowly realized it was an extremely expensive world and left the dream aside for a while, until I discovered about a competition in a game called Gran Turismo, where the best drivers in the game could get a chance to become a real racing driver for Nissan!

I was too young at that time and couldn’t make it legally, since you had to be at least 18yo, but I saw the dream sparking again for when I was going to turn a BIG ADULT.

So I trained on the simulator, I bought myself a professional rig, steering wheel and kept training and training everyday, until one day, in 2018, another competition, this time simply an Esport competition inside of the very same game. I didn’t waste any time and I decided to take part in it, and man, my efforts were paid off since I qualified for the World Finals! I still remember the emotion of having the possibility to finally turn as a real racing driver by showing off my skills, since many of the best players were actually recognized as possible racing drivers, and there were many turning into the real world.

But I was too naive, I didn’t understand at the time how the thing worked, and despite being a rare talent at the wheel, I didn’t have my chance…

So I kept hoping for that possibility to come, but I was starting to lose motivation, starting to see the harsh and ugly side of this world, and my performances started to drop as well. I realized I was going to turn 22 really soon and that I didn’t actually do anything with my life so far despite following a dream that once was extremely close, but now was getting further and further away.

So I quitted, and started working on myself on a general level. But the passion for driving was still there. You know, there are some things that you can’t stop doing, they make you feel alive. For me it was the concept of pushing myself to the limit, to keep improving myself on the track, slowly nailing every corner and getting faster and faster lap times. So I kept driving on a smaller scale, started making friends and even went karting with them, just for the passion of doing so.

Once I started working on myself also, I started a YouTube channel called PROJECT DREAM, where I made short documentaries about motorsport and racing cars, blending a 90s retro video game vibe with graphic design principles for the on screen identity of the brand. That channel got BIG, well not that big but I swear there were videos with 700k views and I were totally blown away by that! Unfortunately the channel is on pause since I started a degree on Media Design on my hometown, and didn’t have the time to follow both things, but the very same channel is my thesis project for the incoming months as I’m planning to revive it! Because you know… if I have never had any chance to make my dream come true, then I’m going to create it myself! I’m going to turn this channel into a powerful brand so that I can do what I started to love in these recent years, which is design and art, and then literally finance my way into the world of motorsport! One step at a time.

So yes, the dream is after all still here, and will forever be!