14:30 – 15:30 | Conference Room

Book presentation Parole di corsa by Emiliano Maria Savini

The excitement of my first trips to Monza and Imola with my cousin Giovanni. The laughter during the grown-ups’ conversations, the stops at motorway cafés, and the stories about our Formula 1 heroes — Prost, Senna, Berger, and Mansell. They were the ones who made us dream.
My journey into the world of F1 began in the early ’90s, if not earlier: from Alain Prost’s lost World Championship at Suzuka, to Ferrari’s long-awaited redemption with Michael Schumacher in 2000, again at Suzuka.
Twenty-five years later, everything changes. As a journalist for the Perform group in London, I was sent to Imola to tell the story of Ayrton Senna, twenty years after the tragic accident at the Tamburello corner.
From that moment on, a new chapter of F1 begins. Over ten years, I conducted a series of interviews that brought back the human side of the drivers — their fragilities, their regrets. Characters once feared in the paddock revealed their humanity. I think of Bernie Ecclestone, hoping to live long enough to support his son. I think of Max Mosley, weakened by illness during our last conversation, struggling with the remote control, closing the gate himself as I arrived at his London home.
This journey, which began on the Autostrada del Sole, never really stopped — it simply reached its destination by taking different paths.