THERE ARE TROPHIES ALL over the place. Shelves, cupboards, windowsills and even tool racks are littered with gongs and commendations of various sizes and shapes. Prema people joke that soon they will be propping up doors with them. Not only is the current building unable to accommodate all the team’s equipment and all its staff, but also the prizes.
“To be honest, I have a bit of a problem with that, I still have to find the time to organise my own cabinet.” Prema boss René Rosin welcomes GP Racing to his office at the team’s base in Grisignano di Zocco in northern Italy, some 50 kilometres from Venice.
The shelves in Rosin’s office cabinet are no different to those in the marketing department next door, where his wife Angelina works among others, or his father Angelo’s office across the hall. The ones in René’s office, he says, are of no particular importance – they’ve ended up here as a result of numerous moves to accommodate the growing organisation in what you might call a historic building on Via Alcide