From the introduction by Antonio Collini: One thing is sure. We would never for a moment have thought or presumed to write a history of outboard engines or of outboard engine racing. For a start, it would have been far too complicated. Not only that, the ground has already been very well covered by expert authors […].
[…] have been constantly dredged for information during the compilation of these texts. In fact, they convinced us to provide an Italian version of events […].
We have to admit that it is really not a serious practice to relate events for which one has not got proper contemporary documentation.
[…] For our researches we operated like two salesmen on a housing estate, taking it in turn to ring the door bells. […]