11-03-2025
Book Review: 'Forza Ferrari: How F1's Most Famous Team Can Win Again'
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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."
