I Grandi Duelli della Formula 1

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When it is man who makes a difference on the machine, Formula 1 gains in show, pathos, emotions. When the technological challenge becomes above all a challenge between drivers, motor sport manages to write indelible pages. In this volume we start from far away, even from the 1930s, when Formula 1 as we know it was not yet born.

Luca Dal Monte and Umberto Zapelloni talk about the great challenges that have characterized the history of Formula 1. From Nuvolari and Varzi to Hamilton and Leclerc, the challenge that has yet to explode but is destined to excite all Ferrari drivers. There are stories of great friends, raised together as boys, who ended up hardly talking to each other anymore, like Hamilton himself and Rosberg, or of rivals who as friends suddenly broke off every relationship, even reaching a tragic ending, like Villeneuve and Pironi. And then there is the challenge of challenges, between Senna and Prost, one of the bloodiest. The challenge between men, between pilots, is the salt of a sport that engineers would like to turn into a fight between computers. They are the ones who fill the autodromes, who recall millions of people in front of televisions around the world. Men against men, like on a tennis court or a boxing ring.

Formula 1 is, with the Motoworld Championship, the only sport where you race against time, but also against your opponent. In the history of Formula 1, which began on the track of a former English airport on May 13, 1950, there have been duels of all kinds. In more than seventy years we have seen all kinds of things between men fighting for victory in a championship, in a race or simply to pass first in that blessed curve. The friend is an opponent, the partner is the first of your rivals. In these pages some of these stories are told and especially the men behind certain duels. Sun Tzu wrote his The Art of War in the Sixth Century BC, but maybe he had already seen some grand prize…