Book Gian Luigi Picchi – My Years in Autodelta

Book Gian Luigi Picchi – My years in Autodelta – The long road to the European Championship 1971. Published by Drive Experience by Davide Cironi.

“The old 'Ring garages were located in a large internal yard and the cars were left there overnight, with the shutters of each garage being locked.
During the lunch break, however, the mechanics did not always lower the shutters completely.
Well, on Thursday, returning from the short snack in the bar together with the mechanics, as a group we approached the second garage, raising the shutter.
Under the GTAm that was on the stands we saw some legs, the mechanics grabbed them and pulled them.
They were three engineers from the Japanese factory that on that occasion had fielded cars with rotary engines.
They were photographing the slide of our car. To their great embarrassment, but also to ours, they were rather rudely removed by the mechanics and one of the three even received a kick as punishment”.