About the Author

A motorsport historian with a particular interest in the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, for many years Enrico Mapelli has contributed to local and specialist periodicals. He has edited slots regarding the world of books for various television programmes and for more than a decade has been commentating at historic races. He has published several books including "Monza Duemiladieci", the F. Junior Annuals and "Un Rally a Monza", to date the only book dealing with the Monza rally. For Giorgio Nada Editore he has written: "I dati della Formula Uno" (2000), "Ferrari World's Champions" (2008), "Formula 1 & Monza.A race in pictures" (2016), "Alfa Romeo & Formula 1" (2019) and "Formula 1 70" (2020), while for Sias, the body managing the Monza circuit, he wrote the commemorative book for the 90th edition of the Italian Grand Prix (2019).