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Yahoo
16-03-2025
- Automotive
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F1 writer's journey from 'fake' reports to new book
A Formula 1 journalist who admits to once writing fictional match reports as a child has released a new book. Nate Saunders, from Colchester, has been flying out to races across the world for ESPN since 2015, rubbing shoulders with the sport's biggest names. His book - Forza Ferrari: How F1's Most Famous Team Can Win Again - questions whether the Italian outfit can return to the winning podium. The 35-year-old said he had a "new-found appreciation" for what it took to write a book. He has had his microphone ready in Melbourne this weekend, where the chequered flag has signalled the start of the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. Norris beats Verstappen in dramatic Australia opener 'Copybook victory as Norris and McLaren come through chaos unscathed' Hamilton's first Ferrari race 'a big crash course' Saunders told BBC Essex: "I was never great at sports but I loved writing about them, so I always wrote these match reports when I was young - they were fake match reports - about England winning the World Cup or Ferrari winning the championship. "I was always the hero that was winning in them, which looking back now, looks quite big-headed obviously." Saunders was sports editor at his university paper in Reading, before working freelance and then joining ESPN in 2014. He has since built up a rapport with key figures across the paddock, receiving praise for his writing from former Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo and ex-Haas team principal Guenther Steiner. Saunders said he hoped Forza Ferrari would provide unique insight for diehard fans, and an overview of the team's history for anyone new to the sport. Ferrari has not won the drivers' championship since Kimi Raikkonen in 2007, and before that, Michael Schumacher. "[The book] dives into the story of the modern team; some of the missed opportunities," he said. He said the writing process took place on "a lot of cramped, dingy flights" and admitted he "spent a lot more of Christmas" working on it than he should have. With Lewis Hamilton having joined the Maranello team for this season, Saunders said this championship "feels so much bigger". Follow Essex news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. 'No Hamilton fairytale as Norris and McLaren deliver on potential' Norris takes Melbourne pole with Hamilton eighth 'Bearman already marked out as potentially a special one'
Yahoo
11-03-2025
- Automotive
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Book Review: 'Forza Ferrari: How F1's Most Famous Team Can Win Again'
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When it comes to Formula 1-themed book forewords, it might be difficult to find a better scene-setter than the opener offered up by former Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo. "Ferrari has been, after my family, the most important thing in my life. The sport of Formula 1 would not be the same without Ferrari—that is as true today as it ever was."$24.00 at At least he didn't forget to mention his family. Ferrari fans are a rare breed in sports. If you don't believe that now, you will after reading the book Forza Ferrari: How F1's Most Famous Team Can Win Again. This 262-page opus takes an inside look at the Ferrari race team, past and present, with highlights on mistakes made and hopes dashed in recent years leading up to what the team hopes will be a return to glory in 2025. It's a cry of hope that another Michael Schumacher era is right around the next corner for new driver pairing Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton. More to the point, the book is author and veteran F1 scribe Nate Saunders' road map to the top rung of the F1 ladder. Schumacher won five of his seven Formula 1 titles with Ferrari, and the book traces the champion's journey, as well as the successful (and unsuccessful) attempts by Ferrari drivers since to capture their own glory days in red. It's not an easy journey, but it's one that this book published by Aurum Press in London says will happen again. You won't get any arguments from di Montezemolo. "Like all tifosi in Italy and around the world, I feel sure one of these two great drivers is the one who can end the long wait for another Ferrari driver's name to be on the World Championship trophy," di Montezemolo offers. "I know it is a question of when, not if, and when is very, very soon indeed."
