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Lewis Hamilton Through the Lens book cover
Lewis Hamilton Through the Lens book cover
Lewis Hamilton Through the Lens book cover

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...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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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...

 
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Hotwheels Ferrari F2004 Schumacher 1:18
Hotwheels Ferrari F2004 Schumacher 1:18
Hotwheels Ferrari F2004 Schumacher 1:18

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...
 
 
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Senna Hard Edge of Genious Hilton book cover
Senna Hard Edge of Genious Hilton book cover
Senna Hard Edge of Genious Hilton book cover

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...
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
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Haynes McLaren M23 book cover
Haynes McLaren M23 book cover
Haynes McLaren M23 book cover

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 ...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Lauda The Rebel Menard Vassal book cover
Lauda The Rebel Menard Vassal book cover
Lauda The Rebel Menard Vassal book cover

Book review: Niki Lauda The Rebel by Pierre Menard and Jacques Vassal

As we return to Zandvoort this weekend for the highly anticipated Dutch GP, it’s a reminder of the last GP won by the late great multiple world champion Niki Lauda for McLaren in his retirement year back in 1985. There ha...