World Champions
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Book Review: My Championship Year by Damon Hill
Despite winning the 1996 F1 world championship in the dominant Newey designed Williams FW18, Damon Hill is often under-rated as one of the better British drivers. Anyone who could drag the ’97 Arrows Yamaha almost to vict...
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Book Review: Nigel Mansell – A photographic portrait by Mike Doodson
First up in the next series of book reviews on British drivers is “Nigel Mansell: A photographic portrait” by Mike Doodson. Mansell is without doubt, one of the best British F1 drivers ever produced with dual F1 wor...
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Villeneuve – My First Season in Formula 1 by Jacques Villeneuve with Gerald Donaldson
Following on from my last review post on Autocourse’s Gilles Villeneuve, next up is Jacques Villeneuve’s My First Season in Formula 1 (with help from Gerald Donaldson) that reflects on Villeneuve Jnr’s maiden ...
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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 ...
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DVD Review: Grand Prix Heroes – Jody Scheckter by Duke Video
Looking at the many accidents of Romain Grosjean last season and his race ban after Spa, a lot of people labeled him as a dangerous lunatic. Funnily there are early career similarities between Grosjean and 1979 World Champion ...
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Book Review: My Greatest Race edited by Adrian Ball
Unless they have achieved rare status, many of the older pre-80s F1 books get overlooked or forgotten in old bookstores or collections. I’ve been re-reading a few from my own collection recently. Published in 1974 for the...
