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Book Review: The Turbo Era by Alan Henry
With the new 2014 season ushering in V6 turbos, everyone hopes the spirit of the exciting turbo years in the 80’s can be re-captured and lead to some more exciting competition instead of the one horse RedBull domination i...
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Book Review: Classic Racing Cars by Cyril Posthumus
Happy New Year! If you’re interested in older era grand prix cars and technical cutaway diagrams, a good older title which is worth a look is Cyril Posthumus’ ‘Classic Racing Cars‘. This book covers the ...
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Book Review: Racers – The Inside Story of Williams Grand Prix Engineering by Doug Nye
Holidays are a great time for re-reading old F1 books. For long suffering Williams F1 fans the only way to enjoy success is to re-live the team’s past glory years. By 1982, Williams had made the big time as a front runnin...
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F1 Diecast Review: Spot the difference – Minichamps World Champions Collections vs standard Minichamps
I received an email earlier in the year with a question about the difference between Minichamps’ World Champions Collection series and the normal Minichamps model of the same car. It’s an interesting exercise becau...
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Book Review: Jody – An Autobiography by Jody Scheckter
I was watching a video interview of Jody Scheckter the other day (see clip) and it was almost hard to picture the now successful agri-businessman and 1979 F1 champion as a wild accident prone rookie with McLaren (does this soun...
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Book Review: Ayrton Senna – Goodbye Champion, Farewell Friend by Karin Sturm
“Ayrton Senna – Goodbye Champion, Farewell Friend” is probably one of the better Senna books that have been published. Written by F1 journalist Karin Sturm, this is a close personal reflection on Senna’s...
