The Black Knights
Strong and very fast. Both in black overalls, which however only become an element of fear for their opponents when they see them coming from behind or see them running away into the distance. For us who admire them, cheer them on, who are proud of them and the pages of history they are writing, they look more like two superheroes. They are also friends with each other, they exchange messages via telephone from one end of the world to the other – “you win and I win too” – and remind us how much spectacle Italian talent dares to give in the world of motors. Jannik Sinner, the third musketeer of this club of phenomena, made us a nation of tennis players; Bez&Kimi, like an irresistible duo, made us rediscover the pleasure of speed.
Yesterday, March 29, 2026, must be engraved in capital letters in stone for lovers of Italian motorsport. With due proportions, it is the motorsport version of August 1, 2021, when Gianmarco Tamberi and Marcell Jacobs won, within 10 minutes of each other, two Olympic golds in the high jump and the 100 meters. This time 14 hours of interval have passed, but the emotion is similar: Andrea Kimi Antonelli winner of the Japanese Formula 1 GP, Marco Bezzecchi winner of the United States MotoGP GP. Putting it in a film would have seemed too graceful.
Double triumph with two precedents
The last time two Italian drivers excelled on the same day in the two reference motorsport championships on two and four wheels was 6 April 2003. 23 years ago. And that time the joy had also come in fits and starts: in the morning, always in Japan, always in Suzuka, it was the bikes that made us rejoice with Valentino Rossi who had done what he did best: win, by a wide margin and without apparent difficulties. But that race will forever be remembered for the fatal accident of the young Japanese champion Daijiro Kato, who passed away after a terrible fall that made the entire MotoGP world question the safety of certain circuits.
In the evening, in Brazil, on an Interlagos circuit decimated by intermittent rain and a slew of accidents, it was Giancarlo Fisichella with the Jordan who drew the joker from the deck, winning his first victory in F1. In that case, however, the cry of joy was delayed by almost a week because, after the red flag that had been raised until the GP, the victory had been wrongly awarded in the first instance to Kimi Raikkonen. The rectification came at the following GP, in Imola, complete with an improvised awards ceremony on the main straight of the Santerno circuit.
By activating the time machine, we find another precedent with a similar result, but we have to go back to the prehistory of motorsport. 6 July 1952: Umberto Masetti wins the Belgian GP in the 500 class and Alberto Ascari triumphs in Formula 1 in France. So yes, let us tell you: Kimi and Marco, you wrote history.
