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

- ISBN-10: 8879116134
- ISBN-13: 9788879116138
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)