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Giorgio Piola’s career started as a bet between brothers. A friendly challenge to settle the debate as to who’s illustrations were strong enough to be published in the leading motorsport magazines of the era. Giorgio won, racing headfirst into a career analyzing the technical designs of Formula One machines and quickly taking pole position in an industry that didn’t exist before he proposed its creation. For nearly 50 years Giorgio Piola has been the foremost technical journalist in Formula 1. He has helped millions of fans around the world understand each new technical development and innovation that makes Formula 1 unique in the world of motorsports.
Rainer W. Schlegelmilch saw his first race in 1962 when he photographed a series of portraits at the '1000 kilometers' at the Nürburgring for his final examination at the Bavarian State School of Photography in Munich. Right from the very beginning, initially in monochrome only, he photographed for numerous prestigious motorsport publications and in motor racing involved companies. Since 1974, 5 years already in color, RWS has focused exclusively on Formula 1 championship races. Changing to digital photography 2004, his archive totals 15,000 monochrome photographs and over 400,000 color slides and digital images. It's worldwide today's biggest, perfect organized motorsport archive out of one hand.
Ercole Colombo grew up in Italy, he has been a familiar figure in the Grand Prix paddock since the late 1970s and in this time has shot the most extensive collection of images recording the highs and lows of the Scuderia. His work with the Ferrari team over the past 40 years has documented many unique images of the team at work as well as an intimate record of Enzo Ferrari, with whom Colombo enjoyed a cordial personal relationship that lent him unparalleled behind-the-scenes access. Colombo’s photographic reportage also spans the team’s halcyon period from the mid-1990s and into the 2000s during Michael Schumacher’s period of unmatched supremacy through to the current day.
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