Francesco is cocky and self-centered, as proven on numerous occasions with Lightning McQueen. In Cars 2, Francesco serves as the main rival to McQueen on his part of the film, and has a rather similar persona to Chick Hicks from Cars and Jackson Storm from Cars 3. However, unlike Chick and Storm, Francesco seems to have a good side to him somewhere in his transmission; for example, like McQueen, Francesco was horrified to see the huge wreck after the Italy race, and Francesco is not a cheater.