The Amazing Journey of MOMO Corse

MOMO has set a live example of how high levelwinner of the F1 championship. Thus, the emotion
of creativity, imagination and entrepreneurshipof a friend and the passion of a promising youth
could help a small business expand and conquerset the pedestal for MOMO Corse.
international markets within an amazingly shortIn course of time the company diversified its
span of time. It also tells the story of howattention and brought variety in steering-wheels
passion and emotion, if directed properly, canproduction. Initially it confined its sales of the
come out with mind-blowing result. Such asteering wheel to the racing world, but very soon
dramatic history MOMO Corse has!began it widened its horizons. Not only it
A political science student at the University ofdiversified its production but also broadened its
Pavia, who also happens to be an amateur racingsteering-wheel range. It started to produce
driver, got a friend to make a very special typelight-alloy road wheels, an accessory to which
of steering-wheels for his racing car. The tyre heMOMO Corse attached new concepts of
made was smaller than the usual ones. But whatmarketing and design.
was most unique about it was the handgrip; aThe journey of this Italian company continued to
very large handgrip that allowed a much betterroll on, especially in the wheel sector, which began
hold, making the car easier to handle and drive.to be a pulling force. With the formation of MOMO
It took little time for this odd steering wheel toCorse in 1993, the company started to design and
attract the attention of many racing car drivers.produce hi-tech racing accessories. Soon it
Celebrity driver like John Surtees of Ferrari wasembarked on importing the best of the world's
also amazed by the wheels and gave them a tryracing fittings, a tradition that is going on in full
on his single-seat Formula One race car.swing even today.
Surprisingly, on that year he came out to be the