First Andrea Verona became Enduro World Champion 1 well in advance of the season's finale. Then, in the final, gripping, epic grand final at Zschopau, the last Enduro Grand Prix of the 2023 World Championship, he... unleashed hell and handed out lessons to opponents who had little to learn. So yes, even without counting titles, it can be said that one can be more Number 1 than a Number 1. At least in the case of Andrea Verona...

A very tight season, extraordinary and powerful opponents, the level of modern Enduro that is insane. All this is distilled into yet another year of Andrea Verona. First of all, however, I would like to dwell on the person. It is true that the Enduro Aces are all normal, down-to-earth people, but in this case it must be emphasised that Andrea Verona is as normal as it gets. Yet brilliant with emotion, contagious with passion, balanced and generous in his analyses, even self-deprecating if needed to play down or to balance the platform of a dialogue.

This is why we enjoyed listening to Andrea, and we confess that, having switched off the microphone and cameras, we stayed for a long time to listen to his version of the facts, of Enduro, of his way of racing and of evaluating his adversaries. After all, Fabio Farioli, who is the team's super manager and its gunsmith, had told us: "If only all riders were like that...".