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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...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Ayrton Senna - Bruce Jones book cover
Ayrton Senna - Bruce Jones book cover
Ayrton Senna - Bruce Jones book cover

Book Review: Ayrton Senna – Portrait of a Racing Legend by Bruce Jones

I recently picked up a copy of Bruce Jones’ 2019 Senna tribute book “Ayrton Senna – Portrait of a Racing Legend” sight unseen purely based on the book’s cover and that it was published to mark the ...
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
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Ayrton Senna All His Races book cover
Ayrton Senna All His Races book cover
Ayrton Senna All His Races book cover

Book Review: Ayrton Senna All his races by Tony Dodgins

As we head into this weekend’s GP at Imola, for better or worse, this circuit now forever reminds fans of Ayrton Senna. There have been so many Senna books published, it’s often difficult to distinguish between the them and unl...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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senna Fiona Beddall book cover
senna Fiona Beddall book cover
senna Fiona Beddall book cover

Book Review: Senna by Fiona Beddall

Another Senna book for junior readers is Scholastic’s and Fiona Beddall’s “Senna”. This book is part of Scholastic’s series in a short form format aimed at the intermediate junior teenage reader level as opposed to the kids sto...
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
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speed kings john smailes book cover
speed kings john smailes book cover
speed kings john smailes book cover

New Book Review: Speed Kings by John Smailes

I initially picked up a copy of John Smailes’ Speed Kings being keen to read up on the early forays by 1960’s drivers like Sir Jack Brabham, Jim Clark, Bruce McLaren, Chris Amon and Denny Hulme to race at the Indian...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Alain Prost Maurice Hamilton book cover
Alain Prost Maurice Hamilton book cover
Alain Prost Maurice Hamilton book cover

Book Review: Alain Prost by Maurice Hamilton

After reading recent interview comments by Alain Prost on Renault’s 2020 season campaign and Fernando’s comeback, it’s hard not to imagine how he might have performed in the Renault RS20. The number of Alain Prost books are rel...