The absence of the president of Ferrari, Luca Montezemolo, from the board of directors of Fiat-Chrysler after the assembly that has just approved the merger between the two car companies into the new FCA is no small surprise. Fiat's chairman, John Elkann, argued that the need was to create an even more international board of directors, but Montezemolo's absence seemed rather the indicator of a never-resolved coldness with the CEO Sergio Marchionne and the end of a time in which Montezemolo was considered by the Agnelli family to the point of making him the president of Fiat itself in 2004 after the death of Umberto Agnelli.
The disappointing sporting results that the Maranello redhead has been collecting for years also contributed to complicating things
and which on more than one occasion made Marchionne and Elkann turn up their noses.
However, it does not mean that if one door closes another cannot be opened. Precisely his exit from the Fiat board of directors has revived the rumors according to which Luca Montezemolo, by virtue of his consolidated relationships with Arab sovereign wealth funds, could soon become the president of the new Alitalia. We'll see in the next few days.
