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Book Review: Behind the Scenes with Benetton Formula 1 Racing Team by Chris Bennett with Oliver Holt
The other day, someone was asking me about good Benetton F1 books. For the newbie F1 fans, this year’s Lotus team was previously Renault and before that was Benetton. Quite a few books on the Benetton team have been publi...
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Book Review: Graham Hill Grand Prix Racing Book
Congratulations to Nico Rosberg on a controlled Monaco GP win. Another Monaco meister (5 times) was Englishman Graham Hill. In 1966, Shell published the Graham Hill Grand Prix Racing Book which is an excellent compact guide to ...
Blog Posts
The new Rush movie and the Lauda vs Hunt revival?
I just watched the new trailer for Ron Howard’s movie “Rush” and the racing scenes are looking good. Lots of retro Marlboro logos and cigarettes too. No doubt it will be typical Hollywood melodrama, but I also...
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Book Review: Grand Prix de Monaco by Rainer W. Schlegelmilch and Hartmut Lehbrink
As everyone revs up for the glitz of Monaco this weekend, its time to checkout a book on F1’s most famous race on the calendar. There really has been no shortage of excellent books published on the Monaco GP. One of the b...
Diecast models
Rare and hard to find Spark F1 models
I’ve received quite a few emails about Spark models. I wrote a post earlier this year with lists of rare and hard to find Minichamps F1 models which I also get a lot of email questions about, so it makes sense to write a ...
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Book Review: Speed Addicts by Mark Hughes
If there was a prize for a F1 book cover that didn’t quite do justice to the superb photography and content hidden inside, the award just might go to Mark Hughes’ book, “Speed Addicts”. No disrespect to ...
