F1 History
Book
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...
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Book Review: Grand Prix Yesterday & Today by Bruce Jones
Bruce Jones is the author of several excellent F1 history books like “Treasures of Formula One”. In Grand Prix Yesterday & Today, he takes a slightly different twist from his other books by contrasting aspects o...
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Book Review: Formula 1 in Camera 1980-89 by Quentin Spurring and Rainer Schlegelmilch
The cover of Formula 1 in Camera 1980-89 should probably be added to the list of best F1 book covers – it features a fantastic Rainer Schlegelmilch shot of Ayrton Senna cornering through an apex (looks like the right hand...
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Book Review: Formula One Unseen Archives by Tim Hill
Time to look at another older book. Tim Hill’s “Formula One Unseen Archives” was billed as a F1 pictorial history book using photographs from the archives of the UK’s Daily Mail. Starting from 1950, Hill...
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Book Review: Formula 1 in Camera 1970-1979 by Paul Parker and Rainer Schlegelmilch
A few posts ago, I reviewed Paul Parker’s “Formula 1 in Camera 1960-69“. That book was born out of the success of the earlier books in this series on grand prix racing in the 70s and 80s. “Formula 1 in C...
DVD
DVD Review: Victorious Vettel – Official Review of 2012 FIA Formula One World Championship
Out of habit, at the start of every year I pickup a copy of the official FIA season review DVD. Over the last few year years, the review DVD has improved considerably with much more special content and extended race footage. Th...
