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Motors and words: the five books that a motorsport enthusiast cannot fail to read
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The passion for engines and reading. We have selected five books that tell the history of motoring, through the lives of its protagonists and the most significant events. Pages that a motor lover cannot fail to read and that convey the intensity of this love.
It is certainly not us who have to explain it to you: the passion for engines does not end when you leave behind the wheel. A person who loves motorsport, this passion for wheels on asphalt carries it around all day, every day. At dinner, on vacation, on Sunday family lunches, there is no topic more interesting than engines for a pilot or an aspiring one. On the other hand, the track is not simply a physical place, but a real metaphor for life and a style of being in the world.
That is why, in this article we point out five books that a motoring enthusiast cannot fail to read. Five titles easily available, to give or to treat yourself to take the most important stories of the world of motors on vacation.
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"Bottom run. Mille Miglia, a life and a cat ”- Giorgio Terruzzi
It is one of the most exciting stories in motoring told by a great sports journalist, Giorgio Terruzzi. It is 1954 and Alberto Ascari surprisingly wins the Mille Miglia aboard the historic Lancia D24 barchetta. The book, in addition to transporting the reader to the heart of this sporting enterprise, traces the most important stages in the life of the great driver, his complex relationship with his father and the competition with Enzo Ferrari, that damned curve ... and other anecdotes about his career. A very emotional romando that masterfully describes the life at full speed of a great Italian driver.
“Lamborghini Miura” - Stefano Pasini
More than a book to take under an umbrella, this is a real editorial gem, to be kept in the library to leaf through when you want to kill boredom or sadness with texts and images that convey beauty. The Lamborghini Miura simply wrote the history of the car. Stefano Pasini's 1988 book has the merit of fixing this page of history in a book with images and texts of the highest level that cannot be missing in the personal library of any motor lover.
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Mythomachine. History, technology and future of automobile design - Various authors
Here too we are not talking about a novel or a book to be read in one breath. Mitomacchina is a collection of essays by different authors, to be read, studied and enjoyed slowly, day after day. They are images and texts full of very important information for those interested in understanding the development and evolution of automotive design at an international level over the last hundred years. More than a rundown on design styles, we are faced with a profound interdisciplinary reflection, with unpublished material such as scale models and a film section, which manages to restore to the reader the depth of a path as dense as design for cars in the '900.
Tazio Nuvolari: the victories, the courage and the pain - Pino Casamassima
There are the stories and then there are the myths. Myths are capable of embodying the passions of an era and the aspirations of a community. This certainly meant the life of Tazio Nuvolari for the entire Italian community of motoring lovers, a name that has become a classic and that is why it manages to fascinate even today, beyond his generation. This wonderful book by Pino Casamassima is a journey into this myth, certainly made up of victories, but also of defeats, exhaustion and excruciating pain, such as the loss of two children. A plot that leaves you breathless, including racing, love for speed, courage, physical and spiritual pain of the mythical and eternal Tazio Nuvolari.
The great book of Formula 1. La Rossa, the Others and a 70-year-long novel - Luca dal Monte and Umberto Zappelloni
It is the story of a novel based on real events, the one that began on May 13, 1950 in England with the first Formula 1 race. doing and understanding this sport. From Juan Manuel Fangio to Max Verstappen, passing through the legendary duel between Mika Hakkinen and Michael Schumacher, this book tells - in a detailed and exciting way - all the great events that represent Formula 1.
26 July 2022