Luciano González Rizzoni He has just consecrated champion of the Seven of Hong Kong along with the Pumas 7S team. It is not a coincidence, since the Argentine team The circuit dominates for just over a year and leads the current ranking. But it is not the only passion of Lucho, since it also has a weakness for cars.
The player born in La Rioja began playing Rugby very small, since at age four he already began training in the social club of his hometown. But in his adolescence he moved with his family to Villa General Belgrano, Córdoba, where he began to profile his game towards the Seven modality from the age of 19. But first he took his first “classes”.
“When you are very clear The brake concept You are going to handle with me, “González Rizzoni recalled among laughs that his father told him after putting himself for the first time in front of a flyer of a Renault Kangoo.
“The good thing was that we did it in a field with a place without any danger, so it was fun. I got very nervous because my old man was next, because if he was not able to give him a little more,” he told him Clarion The figure of Los Pumas 7s within the framework of the launch of the new Ford Bronco Sport and before facing the tour for the final stretch of the World Circuit of Seven.
The Argentine team won France last weekend, in Hong Kong, and in this way he got the third consecutive title of this campaign (he had previously obtained the tournaments of Perth, Australia, and Vancouver, Canada), which allow him to dominate the current ranking and already be classified for the final contest that will be played in Los Angeles, between May 3 and May 4.
Luciano González and the cars
The talk with Fought He went through the main activity that his life occupies today but also because of another passion he has, the world of cars, since since a child he was sharing with his father. “He was traveling for work and I used to accompany him. Then I was looking at everything. And when I started driving, I recommended what to pay attention, how to go on a route or where to look at night so as not to dazzle with the lights of other cars.”
-When did you have your driver’s license?
-An 18. I took it out in Córdoba. And my grandmother lent me the car, until after a while she became mine, and used it to go to train. It was a Ford Ka 1.6: a motor for such a light car. I loved him.
-Did you make any change to that car?
-No no. I had it. Good. I don’t usually do anything. Something aesthetic capable of painting a tire. I tried to make the paint well. All service A day. I just take care of. And always very clean.
Luciano Gonzalez Rizzoni, in Action Frette to the United States, in the Seven of Hong Kong. Photo: Reuters-Are of the car is eaten or not?
-No, don’t eat. Except on the trip. Well, there is no option because I am one of those who like to get to destination. But inside the car is not eaten, nothing is taken.
-What car did you dream when you were a boy?
-I liked the Mustang. I liked the old Mustang very much. I loved it. My family was always from Ford. In fact I had a Ford party. I loved the ST version, which we didn’t have it here. But well, one day, one day I will get it.
-What value more than the current technology of cars?
-I think what security is, that warns you everything, or that you may not have to walk depending on taking it to the mechanic to know what it has because the car already warns you everything. The control of lane in the cruise speed and the issue of proximity that is slowed to you alone, all that can be very good. They lent me a ranger and I could try all that. I think it evolved a lot and that is good. What matters most in a car, after all, is security.
Luciano González Rizzoni, Pumas 7S player, in talk with Clarín.-For you the design defines the purchase of a car or do you also give importance to practicality?
-M really like the aesthetic, but also comfort. I usually look for cars that give me comfort and give me that visual taste. But I also like good engines, so I try to combine all together.
-He is clear that you like cars, do you like speed?
-I like cars, I like speed. But well, I try to be quite aware with that theme and more here that there are many cars.
-And you can get the desire from time to time going to a circuit?
-I don’t have time, but I could get the desire in the Gálvez when the new Mustang came and Ford invited me to the launch event. So I took the desire for a while.
-You gave man to handle with manual box. How do you get with automatic?
-I really like the manual box. I really like having control of the car, but well, since I moved to Buenos Aires I think that living here made me learn to value the automatic box at peak time. Thank God I have my automatic automatic and a manual pickup, so I can give myself tastes.
Luciano González Rizzoni, Pumas 7S player, learned to value the automatic box.-What cannot be missing when you get on the car?
-The music. Sorry, but I am a person who climbs into the car and I do not start until I have the music that I like or the radio I hear. I usually hear all kinds of music, but I am a lot of quartet, well Cordoba. But I am very varied, I have days that I get up and listen to folklore and another day I put reggaeton.
-Did you ever spot? Or did they collide?
They collided. I stand at a traffic light and a truck hit me on the side. That was the worst. And once, with my old man’s car, which had polarized rear glass and nothing was seen, and I exploited the rear against a gas box.
-More or less … it was abolished a lot. But I was afraid to go home, until I took strength and went to tell my dad. To my surprise, he told me nothing happened, that they were material things. And that my old man also likes cars. But just when I finished telling me that, my mother came out, saw the truck and fucking me from top to bottom. So they were both ends.
-If you could choose a car to drive from history, whatever, which one do you stay with?
-I think I would like to handle a Ford Mustang, that I am sure that in the short term I will be able to do it. And also a Nissan Skyline.
-Do you like motoring?
-I like me a lot. My family and I are a lot of the rally. We were going to see him when the world rally came to run in Argentina. We were going the previous day in the Sierra Camp. It was the family’s plan. But now, with the theme (Franco) Colapinto I began to see a lot of formula 1 for him. Obviously we are going to bank it. I even put on a simulator at home to play with my cousin.
The celebration of Los Pumas 7s after winning the end in the Seven of Hong Kong. Photo: Reuters-What analysis can you do the season they are having with the Pumas 7s?
-The season the truth that started quite well. We had the first two tournaments of Dubai and Cabo Cabo, which were quite positive because we had a good rugby although they did not follow the results. But today it is being shown that the team can be up, so quite happy for that.
-How do you think the season is going to close?
-We have to continue along this path. We do not relax after the triumphs, but we continue to see and analyze the same, the errors and we are already polishing very fine details that I think is good for the level we are handling. You have to continue working to get well Singapore and, most importantly, Los Angeles, which will be the grand final.
-What explanation will you find that this team, this group, has achieved such game excellence?
-The team was found, framed, became very familiar and joined. I think it is very important because knowing the one you have next to you already know how it plays. You know how you are just seeing it in the locker room, knowing the security that each one has I think helps you. And Santiago (Gómez Cora) and the team knew how to take advantage of it. We know that (Marcos) Moneta runs, that Toto (Mare) thinks … and so each one and was done as a gear. Everything works as it has to work.
