Out comes the splendid new book by the author of Ferrari Rex

Lauda & Ferrari – Champions of the World (Giunti – Giorgio Nada Editore) è the latest book by Luca Dal Monte, who can’be considered in his own right the greatest expert on the Prancing Horse: after all, as many will remember, the Cremonese writer è author of the award-winning and multi-translated Ferrari Rex, which the New York Times consecrated as the “definitive biography” of Enzo Ferrari.

His latest effort, out these days, takes us back 50 years, to Niki Lauda’s first world title with the Scuderia di Maranello. Always in search of a personal key, Dal Monte follows Lauda’s world championship journey in the 1975 season as a reporter would have done at the time, delivering to today’s reader all the skepticism that reigned around the young Austrian driver.

“One only has to go and read the newspapers and specialized magazines of the’era to realize this – Dal Monte tells Sportal.it -. The Austrian was not considered the best driver around, but among the six to seven best: a kind of ranking that Lauda did not seem to mind, in fact he liked to remember that of drivers, in circulation, there were thousands and therefore being among the top ten was a source of pride for him. It seemed to many that he was just the’right man at the right time and in the most competitive car ever, the Ferrari 312 T masterpiece by Mauro Forghieri. But Niki was much more than that, and he amply proved it”.

The historical reconstruction of the 1975 season è is as precise and to the point as in any of Dal Monte’s works and is based on sources and documentation from the period as well as interviews conducted expressly for this volume. The text flows almost as fast as the two 312 T cars of Lauda and Regazzoni. On the strength of a knowledge and experience that make him the historian par excellence of the Scuderia Ferrari, the author enters as only he can into the details of the internal dynamics of the Maranello team, where Enzo Ferrari reigns supreme, but è splendidly assisted by a young lawyer whose name is Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, destined in the future to take the place of the Grand Old Man himself at the helm of Ferrari.

Luca Dal Monte è was born in Cremona in 1963. His books are read and translated all over the world. In addition to numerous successful works of nonfiction, he also has two novels and two collections of short stories to his credit. Not only motors, for him: “Luca Vialli. From Cremona to London, the extraordinary life of a champion on the field and off”, an authorized biography of the great footballer, è came out last year and has reaped great acclaim.