Overview

An illustrated history of Scuderia Ferrari's accomplishments in Formula 1. Founded in 1929 by Enzo Ferrari, Scuderia Ferrari is the longest-running Formula 1 team in existence. Ferrari has participated in every season since the first F1 Grand Prix at Silverstone in 1950. With more than one thousand race participations, Ferrari holds records for world titles, victories, podium and pole positions, and fastest laps. Sixteen times World Constructors' Champion and fifteen times World Drivers' Champion, its track record in Formula 1 is unrivaled. Many legendary drivers have helped create this iconic status, including Michael Schumacher, who won five consecutive titles with Ferrari from 2000 to 2004. Other great champions of the Scuderia include Fangio, Ascari, Ickx, Lauda, Prost, Räikkönen, Vettel, and Leclerc. In Ferrari in F1, Peter Nygaard, a world-renowned historian, photographer, and collector, helps us relive the fabulous history of Ferrari in Formula 1, from 1950 to the present day. Rich with four hundred photographs, most previously unpublished, and enhanced with thematic highlights and portraits of drivers, mechanics, and team managers, this book retraces all of Ferrari's great moments in Formula 1: the legendary races, track incidents, technological advancements, fan enthusiasm, and greatest victories.

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9781956309393

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""The best of both worlds: a photo book by a professional race photographer and archivist, with texts by a proper motorsports historian--and they happen to be one and the same person.""-- ""Speedreaders"" ""Nygaard's book is a beautiful reminder of Ferrari's achievements. What we liked about it most is that it enables us to recall, or learn, about the more recent years of Ferrari's F1 adventure."" -- ""Veloce Today""

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Peter Nygaard is an internationally renowned Danish author, historian, and F1 expert. His works have been translated into several languages and constitute references for enthusiasts of this sport. For more than thirty-five years, as a photographer and collector, he has traveled the world, the tracks, and the paddocks in search of archives, testimonies, and iconographic documents and images to reflect the beauty of this exceptional sport.

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