Paso was born in 1938 in Rimini, the heartland of Emilia Romagna and Italy’s stronghold of motorcycle racing culture. His father was a racer and encouraged his son into both motocross and road racing at a very young age, beginning with motocross in 1958. It was a formative start that would eventually see Pasolini bring these techniques into his style when he switched to road racing in 1962. He was neither too tall nor too short in stature, with a lot of power and strength in his hands, though his eyesight was not the greatest and he
