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5 AutoData | October 2018 By Vicente Alessi, filho Suggestions, criticisms, comments, offenses and the like for this column can be directed to the email vi@autodata.com.br Disclousure/IndyCar AND EMERSON, WHO COULD HAVE THOUGHT IT... And the champion Emerson Fittipaldi, who could have thought it, went into a swamp far beyond the road: he gave political opinion in an inappropriate place. It happened in the evening of Thursday, 27th, during the launch of the Kia Stinger GT, in São Paulo, whose first twenty units are part of a special series in his honor. In the opportunity, he had to speak to specialized journalists and after obvious praises to the car, he made room for the apology of a presidential candidate - exactly the one that says that women are people of second or third category, who supports the use of torture and torturers, who does not hide his homophobic condition. A group of five guests shouted “No torturer!”, and left the event. He wasn’t followed by anyone else. AND EMERSON, WHO COULD HAVE THOUGHT IT... 2 Two things draw the attention. The first of them is the fact that executives of foreign company dominated by compliance policies - and one of them is the non-intrusion of other countries internal issues - have allowed the manifestation, which certainly was arranged and they were aware of it: no one, nor even the former champion, would have the courage to make political speech without previous authorization. The second point concerns to potential spurious relations: would the old champion be selling his image in a desperate attempt to buy facilities for his ruinous business in the hope of victory of a candidate with those qualifications, as described by the journalist Lemyr Martins in Época Negócios magazine? AND EMERSON, WHO COULD HAVE THOUGHT IT... 3 Lemyr Martins wrote a year ago, in his last paragraph: «Sad situation for who cheated death on the tracks several times and was defeated in the investments jungle. It is regrettable that this time the pilot will not be able have a bailout from the businessman». Well: Who knows, in the Kia event, if the sad Emerson was selling his soul to the devil - Goethe described how this ends. HERESY? There are marks that are embedded in the neurons of people in an indelible way, such as the name of the Scania magazine, King of the Road, adopted since the company’s installation here in Brazil. The publisher of AutoData Editora, Márcio Stéfani, believes that the change of name, for a named focused on technology, is heresy. He believes that King of the Road, the trademark of Scania trucks, and which characterizes them in Brazil, should be preserved.