The short and phenomenal story of Marco Dianda, the 14-year-old boy who amazes Argentine motorsport

Argentine motorsport is, without a doubt, a hotbed that never seems to burn out. Is that in the land of Fangio, Reutemann, cross AND canpino Names emerge with surprising naturalness that amaze for their driving ability and their innate talent at full throttle. The last big appearance is a teenager who, not old enough to get registered and drive on the street, has just made history at TC Pista Mouras. AND Mark Dianawho this Sunday became the youngest rider in history to win a test belonging to the Association for Road Tourism Corridors (ACTC).

At 14 years and 11 months – on 29 March she turns 15 -, Dianda won the final in La Plata which allowed her to break a record for earliness. Aboard a Dodge he overtook the Pergaminense’s Chevrolet by 2s336 Philip Bernasconi and for 6s653 at the Ford Falcon in Rio Negro Benjamin Ochoa to get on the top step of the podium, uncork a bottle of sparkling wine and make history in the fourth round of the category that serves as a quarry for the popular Turismo Carretera.

This speed prodigy survives Guatimozina city in the Marcos Juárez department, in the northeast of Córdoba, which it has only 2,433 inhabitants according to the last census distributed over 1.6 square kilometers of surface, the provincial road n. 12. That is the place in the world of the Diandas, a family linked to sport and whose religion is motorsport.. His father, Jorge, and his uncle, Javier Doddi, were the ones who took him on a go-kart for the first time when he was only 7 years old. While on his way to school to learn addition and subtraction, the boy has already started zipping around the local go-kart track.

Completely.

At the time, nobody imagined that a few years later he would become the youngest winner in Argentina. Now, while he is in his fourth year at the José Manuel de Estrada Institute, the IJME, from “Guatti” as he tells his parents sparing a couple of syllables, this River Plate fan is already an expert driver. Not in vain did he spend a little more than half of his life competing.