Senna & Imola #2# A story within a story / Una storia nella storia

by Mario Donnini

This book tells the story of Ayrton at Imola, a circuit at which the Brazilian competed from 1984 to 1994, winning on three occasions and starting from pole eight times. To bring to life a work that really is new, the author has interviewed a racing driver, a journalist or a well-known personality covering each year in which Ayrton competed in the Imola GP from 1984 to 1994, people who knew Senna in a specific year's race. In order of appearance in the book, those who talk about Ayrton are:

• 1984: Johnny Cecotto, his teammate at Toleman
• 1985: Angelo Parrilla, owner of the DAP kart company, the first with which Ayrton raced
• 1986: Gian Carlo Minardi, the Formula 1 team manager
• 1987: Alberto Sabbatini, the current editor of Autosprint
• 1988: Pino Allievi - journalist and long-standing writer for Italian daily La Gazzetta dello Sport
• 1989: Cesare Maria Mannucci, the widely experienced motor sport journalist
• 1990: Pierluigi Martini, racing driver
• 1991: Carlo Cavicchi, ex-editor of Autosprint
• 1992: Giorgio Serra alias "Matitaccia", the illustrator
• 1993: Alessandro Zanardi, racing driver
• 1994: Mario Poltronieri, the historic voice of Formula 1 for Italian broadcaster RAI

The volume closes with a section on the three days there from 1-3 May 2014 that took place to mark the 20th anniversary of Ayrton’s death, commemorated on the Imola track.

Buch, Hardcover, 25,5 x 25,5 cm, 128 Seiten, 200 farbige und 3 s/w-Abbildungen, zweisprachiger Text (englisch/italienisch)