Author Archive
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Book Review: Postcards from Detroit by Roger Hart
With this weekend’s upcoming return of the United States Grand Prix to the F1 calendar in Austin, its interesting to reflect on previous eras of US GPs with Indianapolis in the early 2000s, Watkins Glen in the 70s and of course...
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Book Review: Memories of Ronnie Peterson by Joakim Thedin and Tomas Hägg
With his maiden win for Lotus (or is that Renault?) in Abu Dhabi, Kimi Räikkönen brings back memories of another former hard charging Scandinavian Lotus driver, Ronnie Peterson. Memories of Ronnie Peterson was put together
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Book Review: Grand Prix Greats by Nigel Roebuck
Another book review dusted off from the vault. A lot of the modern day debate is whether the current grid’s world champions Alonso, Vettel, Hamilton, Button, Räikkönen (BTW, nice comeback win in Abu Dahbi) and Hamilton are wort...
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Book Review: Behind the Scenes in Motor Racing by Anthony Howard
My last post on the Williams FW14 diecast comparison, reminded me of a very nice cut-away drawing in Anthony Howard’s “Behind the Scenes in Motoring Racing”. This old 1992 book is showing its age but is still relevant today. I...
Diecast models
F1 diecast 1:18 review: Minichamps vs Exoto
In the 1:18 scale pre-assembled grand prix model car category, most collectors are usually faced with a choice between Exoto, CMC, Quartzo or Minichamps. I thought a Minichamps vs Exoto review might be useful to do as these are...
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Book Review: No Angel – The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone by Tom Bower
Happy birthday Bernie! With F1 ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone’s closed door commercial dealings in the spotlight yet again with German bank BayernLB trying to raid some loose change from Bernie’s cash register, it’s a good time t...
