Franco Carmignani, born in Rome and a graduate in Engineering, has broad experience in the world of communications, beginning in the late 1960s with columns for the magazine Motor and then continuing with the motoring page for Il Giornale d'Italia. Prior to the books Vallelunga. Un Autodromo per Roma and Vallelunga 65 anni. Storia e futuro, Carmignani published the annual Rallyrama in no less than 30 editions before it was transformed into a web site. He has also piublished Campionato Italiano Rally with Giorgio Nada Editore.