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Max Verstappen book cover
Max Verstappen book cover
Max Verstappen book cover

Book Review: Max Verstappen Born to Race by James Gray

After chalking up another victory in Barcelona and hot favourite to win this weekend’s Canadian GP, Max Verstappen’s current form has the look and feel of past great multiple world champion F1 drivers – Vettel...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Tarmac Works Mercedes AMG W12
Tarmac Works Mercedes AMG W12
Tarmac Works Mercedes AMG W12

Diecast review: Tarmac Works 1:64 scale Mercedes AMG W12 Lewis Hamilton (2021 British GP) and Valtteri Bottas (2021 Turkish GP)

Fresh from the release of their 1:64 scale Mercedes AMG W11’s which I reviewed in April, Tarmac Works have followed up with 1:64 scale models of the 2021 Mercedes AMG W12 with Lewis Hamilton’s 2021 British GP winnin...

 
 
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Monaco Malcolm Folley book cover
Monaco Malcolm Folley book cover
Monaco Malcolm Folley book cover

Book Review: Monaco – Inside F1’s Greatest Race by Malcolm Folley

As we head into next weekend’s Monaco GP, there will no doubt be a re-examination of Checo v Max recriminations during last year’s qualifying session. For the tifosi, hopefully Charles can finally shake his hoodoo a...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Mercedes W08 Lewis 2017 World Champions Collection 1:18
Mercedes W08 Lewis 2017 World Champions Collection 1:18
Mercedes W08 Lewis 2017 World Champions Collection 1:18

Minichamps re-releasing World Champions Collections 1:18 diecasts

Minichamps are finally starting to (slowly) release some of their much anticipated 1:18 World Champions Collections diecasts of Lewis Hamilton, Nigel Mansell and Ayrton Senna race cars (some of which are re-releases). If you...

 
 
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Speed Read F1 book cover
Speed Read F1 book cover
Speed Read F1 book cover

Book Review: Speed Read F1 by Stuart Codling

Netflix’s Drive to Survive documentary series has brought in a whole new demographic to Formula 1 – a new younger generation of F1 fan that is super knowledgable about driver personalties but not very knowledgeable ...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Tarmac Works Mercedes AMG W11
Tarmac Works Mercedes AMG W11
Tarmac Works Mercedes AMG W11

Diecast Review: Tarmac Works 1:64 scale Mercedes AMG W11 Lewis Hamilton (2020 Tuscan GP) and Valtteri Bottas (2020 Austrian GP)

A few months back, I posted a detailed review of Tarmac Works’ excellent 1:64 scale model of Lando Norris’ McLaren MCL35M 2021 Monaco GP race car. Tarmac Works (again with IXO) have now added another F1 diecast to t...