DA NIKI A KIMI - CORAGGIO TECNICA E PASSIONE NELLA F1 DI IERI E DI OGGI
Following the success of F1 Backstage, Riccardo Patrese returns to talk about motorsports and Formula 1, with one eye on the past and the other on the future.
What did it mean to race when you didn't know if you would survive the next race? What does it mean to race today, where technology increasingly tends to hide - much more than before - the talent of the drivers?
Seventeen years in Formula 1, 256 Grand Prix races, duels with the greatest drivers of the time—an era when you raced with your gut even before your head, when talent was felt in your hands and back, and risk was simply part of the job.
Those were the years when the paddock was practically open access, people smoked and played football during the breaks between free practice sessions, but on the other hand, on the track, you risked your life every single day.
In these pages, Riccardo Patrese - who, in addition to his first-hand experience with Williams, Brabham, and Arrows, has maintained a privileged, close-up view of the environment by following the racing career of his son Lorenzo - talks about his Formula 1 and today's Formula 1 without blind nostalgia or indulgence.
He describes the loneliness of the driver, the political correctness of the paddock, the fierce talent of Max Verstappen, the fragility of Lando Norris, and the difference between racing to win and racing for fun. But he also discusses Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari, the growing female presence in Formula 1, and the exorbitant costs required for newcomers.
Furthermore, he explores how the daily lives of drivers and insiders have changed, the layout of the circuits and the cars, the competitiveness, the communication, the composition of the audience, and in general the atmosphere you breathe, both on and off the track.
Many novelties, many questions, but one absolute certainty: the thrill a driver feels at the wheel of his single-seater, launched at top speed, remains an almost mystical bliss, as Ayrton Senna emphasized, that no technological innovation or media commitment can ever diminish.
194 pages. Text in Italian.
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