Inside Ferrari: Unique Behind-the-scenes Photography of the World's Greatest Motor Racing Team

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For further details, please read the rules for the Fiorano Track and Viale Enzo Ferrari Panoramic Tour. inside Ferrari is a unique photobook that focuses more on the behind the scenes work at Ferrari than the drivers or the track action. Rainer Schelgelmilch is the photographers’ photographer; an artist with an inquisitive mind, who captured expressions on drivers’ faces like no other photographer and an innovator who pioneered techniques for capturing the speed and colour of F1. The completed parts are then delivered to the assembly line, where 147 engines are hand-built every day. Even if we fix the issue for the next five races, we will be keen to continue and do a better job because it doesn't matter what happens, even if you win in Bahrain it won't be the end of the championship.

Ferrari’s robots can change their own tools as they go, depending on the individual requirements at the time – or even replace them completely (some tools will last a year, some survive as little as ten passes). Maurice Hamilton is an Fl journalist with 25 years' experience and is editor of the Grand Prix annual, Autocourse. I think it's the DNA of our sport that you are always trying to improve in every single area," he added. Two robots, Romeo and Juliet, fuse the valve seats that will go into the engines – a job too intricate for humans.Most extraordinary of all is their ability to reproduce unique parts for the Classiche department, often working from nothing more than old, detailed drawings to produce a single piece for a restoration project – perhaps the perfect example of the Mechanical Department’s unique place within 75 years of Ferrari innovation. Nicholson and his teammate, racing journalist Maurice Hamilton, create a candid profile that is packed with exciting stories and action photos of behind-the-scenes workers and such internationally famous drivers as Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello.

Maurice provides 2 pages of background for each chapter and short paragraph captions for each of the photos. And on the professional side, I think that in the history of modern Formula One, they have an important role and an important position. I think the priority for everybody is reliability because when you are at this stage of the season and you don't have the reliability, you are not able to do the three days [testing] and then you are starting on the wrong foot," Vasseur said.The book is edited by James Allen, who wrote two books with Michael Schumacher, including the 2007 biography “The Edge of Greatness. Jon Nicholson is one of the most-respected F1 photographers and has worked on several best-selling books - notably with Damon Hill during his reign as world champion. Once finished, the clay is cleaned and a thin light film is applied to the body sections, before being placed under LED lights. The breakthroughs and innovations that we uncover lead to new ways of thinking, new connections, and new industries.

So much so, in fact, that the firm is planning a second site – dubbed Ferrari Land – in Spain, which will open in 2016. Von 2003 bis 2005 begleiteten der namhafte Journalist Maurice Hamilton und der Fotograf Jon Nicholson das Ferrari-Formel 1-Team.Ferrari’s Centro Stile is a modernist enterprise but has betrayed its nostalgic side by reworking the gear selector to mimic the open gate layout of so many classic Ferraris.

The book has been produced by Motorsport Images, part of Motorsport Network, in collaboration with ACC Art Books, Rizzoli Lizard, and Iconic Images. Inside Fiorano's gates, Ferrari invited a further 500 fans from its official supporters club to watch the launch from a temporary grandstand.I think to run a race team is different to a lot of other companies, because you don't have to motivate the people, the motivation is there and the motivation is very over full in terms of the management. He said: 'Yeah, everything feels normal', and I went out and I pushed and I tried to feel something. Housed in the location originally chosen by company founder Enzo Ferrari in 1947, the 165,000-square-metre plant, in Maranello, Italy, produces 8,400 cars a year and employs 1,300 workers.