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Senna: The Truth
An earnest search for the truth behind the tragic death of Formula One legend Ayrton Senna – a catastrophe that still holds unanswered questions.
By veteran journalist Franco Nugnes, who worked for Italy’s motorsport bible, Autosprint, at the time of Senna’s
Three decades on, Nugnes endeavours to get the inside story of that fateful 1994 event from some of the key figures, and to reconstruct what happened that dayHe interviews the likes of Andrea Ficarelli (Senna’s discoverer), Angelo Orsi (his close confidant), McLaren team coordinator Jo Ramírez, engineer Giorgio Ascanelli, Cesare Fiorio (head of Ferrari), Jean Todt (former Ferrari technical director), Luca di Montezemolo (former Ferrari president) and former racing drivers Riccardo Patrese and Érik ComasHe also obtains special insight from the doctor who tried to save Senna’s lifeThis book does not seek to sensationalise, but tries to uncover the true facts through a meticulous investigationA must-read for all Formula One and motorsport fans, this compelling book strives to bring us a better understanding of the tragedy.
By veteran journalist Franco Nugnes, who worked for Italy’s motorsport bible, Autosprint, at the time of Senna’s
Three decades on, Nugnes endeavours to get the inside story of that fateful 1994 event from some of the key figures, and to reconstruct what happened that dayHe interviews the likes of Andrea Ficarelli (Senna’s discoverer), Angelo Orsi (his close confidant), McLaren team coordinator Jo Ramírez, engineer Giorgio Ascanelli, Cesare Fiorio (head of Ferrari), Jean Todt (former Ferrari technical director), Luca di Montezemolo (former Ferrari president) and former racing drivers Riccardo Patrese and Érik ComasHe also obtains special insight from the doctor who tried to save Senna’s lifeThis book does not seek to sensationalise, but tries to uncover the true facts through a meticulous investigationA must-read for all Formula One and motorsport fans, this compelling book strives to bring us a better understanding of the tragedy.
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Published October 20, 2025
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January 11, 2026
First of all I want to say that I absolutely loved reading this book!
The way the author had set it out and put loads of images that some people may of never seen before.
Ive read a lot of books about Ayrton Senna, but I have to say that this is certainly my favrioute one. This book goes into so much detail and we find out things about the Senna tradgedy that people may of never heard of before, this book isn't just some author writing about things that we already knew about Senna and how he crashed at tamburello on the 1st of may 1994, it goes into so much depth and so much time was put into the writing of this book.
There are interviews from people who knew Senna, their memories with him and the truth that they knew about what happened in 1994 at imola.
This book talks about Sennas time with the toleman team, lotus, the truth about him and Mclaren,williams and how Senna wanted to make the move to Ferrari a couple of times.
it also goes into detail about what really happened to his car and how the Williams team had dealt with that, it gives us a completely new point of view and almost like Williams were hiding the truth.
this book has made me find out things that I had never heard before, and I don't think anyone else knew this either.
I highly highly recommend this book to every single motorsport and Senna fan!
(Also included in the back of the book are around 100+ pages of images of Ayrton that we have not seen before)
The way the author had set it out and put loads of images that some people may of never seen before.
Ive read a lot of books about Ayrton Senna, but I have to say that this is certainly my favrioute one. This book goes into so much detail and we find out things about the Senna tradgedy that people may of never heard of before, this book isn't just some author writing about things that we already knew about Senna and how he crashed at tamburello on the 1st of may 1994, it goes into so much depth and so much time was put into the writing of this book.
There are interviews from people who knew Senna, their memories with him and the truth that they knew about what happened in 1994 at imola.
This book talks about Sennas time with the toleman team, lotus, the truth about him and Mclaren,williams and how Senna wanted to make the move to Ferrari a couple of times.
it also goes into detail about what really happened to his car and how the Williams team had dealt with that, it gives us a completely new point of view and almost like Williams were hiding the truth.
this book has made me find out things that I had never heard before, and I don't think anyone else knew this either.
I highly highly recommend this book to every single motorsport and Senna fan!
(Also included in the back of the book are around 100+ pages of images of Ayrton that we have not seen before)
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