Author Archive
Trading Cards
A look at Formula One trading cards and top prices
F1 trading cards have been around for a long time but ever since Topps secured the licensing rights for Formula One in 2020, the collectors market has transformed by opening up to a new collector demographic (arguably even non-...
Book
Book review: Lewis Hamilton – Through the Lens by Bruce Hales-Dutton
Considering Sir Lewis Hamilton has clocked up 7 world titles equaling Michael Schumacher, it’s amazing that there are less books about Lewis compared to the German weltmeister. Maybe it’s that books are less popular...
Blog Posts
Emergence of Crypto and NFTs in Formula 1 (and what it means for F1 collectors)
Congrats to Max and Red Bull on their COTA win last weekend! The 2021 season has been a welcome breath of fresh air and change from the last few years of Mercedes/Hamilton predictable dominance. Recent media comments have obser...
Diecast models
Rare and hard to find Hot Wheels F1 diecasts
Unlike the wide range of 1:18 scale F1 model makers today, in the late 90’s and early 2000’s retail F1 collectors were for the most part limited to choosing between Hotwheels and Minichamps for 1:18 scale diecast models. Hotwhe...
Book
Book Review: Ayrton Senna – The Hard Edge of Genius by Christopher Hilton
While making some long overdue updates to the Best Ayrton Senna books page on the site, it dawned that there are still a number of older Senna books I’ve forgotten to post reviews of. The obvious one is the rare Monumenta...
Book
Book review: McLaren M23 Owners’ Workshop Manual by Ian Wagstaff
McLaren and Danny Ric’s win at Monza was well overdue for long suffering McLaren fans. The MCL35 is starting to show encouraging signs and joins the list of race winning McLaren grand prix cars that hopefully can emulate ...
