Nico Vascellari Designs 2025 Monza Grand Prix Trophy

Italian artist Nico Vascellari (born 1976 in Vittorio Veneto) has created the trophies for the first, second, and third places at the 2025 Monza Grand Prix. The work, titled "Chimera," is a hybrid sculpture combining elements of the three fastest animals in air, water, and land: the peregrine falcon, the sailfish, and the cheetah. It is the fifth collaboration between Pirelli—official sponsor of 500 F1 Grands Prix—and Pirelli HangarBicocca, the contemporary art museum in Milan. The trophies will be awarded on Sunday, September 7, on the podium. Made of aluminum, a material symbolic of automotive engineering, each trophy weighs 4.5 kilograms. The production process involved drawing, collage, organic modeling, 3D resin printing, lost-wax casting, and final metal finishing. Vascellari, who had a recent exhibition at the Sala delle Cariatidi of Palazzo Reale in Milan, described Monza as "the temple of speed" and his trophy as "a ritual object" that honors that title while invoking all realms of the natural world. Previous artist commissions for the trophy include Alice Ronchi, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Ruth Beraha, and Andrea Sala. The sculpture is asymmetrical, with the gaze pointing downward and the tail upward, evoking a classical trophy form.