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| Location | Lac de Côme, Italie |
| Prints issue | LIMITED EDITION 30 prints ONLY |
| Shooting date | 18 octobre 2014 |
| Original picture | Digital |
| Original picture | Digital |
| Formats | Large format |
| Era | 2010-2020 |
| Colors | Red |
I was born into a family that brought the first automobiles to market at the beginning of the last century. For as long as I can remember, I have always heard about motorsport at home and automobiles in the broad sense.
My passion for modes of transport on land also led me to develop a passion for boats during the many school holidays that I spent in Brittany. After my military service in the Navy I began learning how to make sails for large racing multihulls and the last 12MJIs in the America's Cup at the end of the 1980s.
Back in the Paris region, I will join the DPPI press agency created by my father in 1962 where I will learn the basics of photography and business during the first 3 years.
Through a combination of circumstances I will create, develop and manage what will become 10 years later the most important structure for marketing boat photos within a photographic press agency.
At the beginning of this century I will restore several old automobiles, including one of the most emblematic single-seaters in French motorsport that had launched Matra Sport in a quest for victories for 10 years.
After this interlude I returned to my job as a photographer to produce subjects on automobile heritage and motorboats.
This is the story of a racing engine born in a boat. Maserati, in the 50s, was very involved in powerboat competition. Motorboating was followed as much as the car races in Italy. Maserati had understood it was good for the brand's advertising.
The iconic brand engineer Giulio Alfieri led the design of the Maserati for Orsi family, which bought the firm to Maserati brothers. In 1953 the society had to be relaunched. The following year, he designed a new 4-cylinder block that would launch the 150S and 200S and then the 6 cylinder 300S and the 450S. The small 4-cylinder would be tested on a live boat, not at the bench. To allow this he made an agreement with the powerboat racing driver Liborio Guidotti, who built at the Timossi yard on Lake Como, a small shell of 350kg to beat a world record.
To celebrate the centenary of Maserati I went looking the Maserati 150S who won the first race in which she participated in 1955, with Jean Behra at the wheel. It was the 500 km of Nurburgring! This car was designed for private pilots and it worked wonders. The racer "Maria Luisa IV" had already broke the world speed record over 160km/h in November 1954 ...
