Giorgio Piola

Giorgio Piola (s. 1 November 1948) is an Italian journalist known for his activity as an expert Formula 1 envoy.
Famous for its drawings of the technical details of the single-seaters, it boasts the largest number of Formula 1 Grand Prix followed live (811, at the 2019 Chinese GP).
== Biography ==
He began his career in 1970 on the pages of Autosprint and then moved in 1975 first to Corriere della Sera and then to Gazzetta dello Sport where he continued to work until 2015.
Since 1990 he has also been active as a television commentator, with the task of analyzing and presenting the aerodynamic structure and mechanical functioning of sophisticated Formula 1 cars to engine enthusiasts.
Until the end of the 90s, he collaborated with the editorial staff of the sports program dedicated to the Grand Prix engines broadcast on Italia 1, a network that in the period 1991-1996 (this last year under the exclusive regime) held the rights for free-to-air transmission and live on the Italian national territory of Formula 1 sporting events and which the following year were acquired by RAI under a monopoly regime. He later joined the RAI sports editorial team alongside the commentators Gianfranco Mazzoni (main voice), the expert ex Formula 1 driver Ivan Capelli and the engineer Giancarlo Bruno (technical comment) and the envoys Ettore Giovannelli and Stella Bruno.
In the 2008 season he was part of the team of technical commentators for the satellite station Sky Italia and since 2010, after Sky's failure to renew his Formula 1 rights, he joined Mediaset. Since 2011 he collaborates with CSR and comments on the GPs together with Roberto Gurian and Andrea Chiesa. In 2013 he returned to Rai until 2017. He returned to collaborate once with RSI on the occasion of the 2018 Belgian Grand Prix and subsequently for the Italian Grand Prix.
Since 1994 he publishes annually for the Nada publishing house, an annal on Formula 1 entitled Technical Analysis which is translated and published in three languages. For years he has been technical consultant for many national and international magazines including Autosport, Gazzetta and Autosprint. Since 2016 he has collaborated exclusively with the international Motorsport.com network.
On the occasion of the 2019 Chinese Grand Prix, race number 1000 in the history of Formula 1, he is honored by Chase Carey (CEO of Liberty Media) with a celebratory coin being the character of the paddock with the highest number of grand prizes in his assets (811 , debut in Monaco 1969).
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