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Max Verstappen book cover
Max Verstappen book cover
Max Verstappen book cover
 

New Book Review: Max Verstappen by Ewan McKenzie

 
 
 
 
 
 
November 17, 2024
 



Going into the Brazilian GP, Max Verstappen was definitely under the pump with recent Lando and Ferrari wins eroding his world championship lead. 71 laps latter, his mastery of chaotic weather conditions and supreme race craft ...

 
Trading Cards
 

This week Topps’ website this week opened its pre-sale orders for the new 2024 Chrome F1 trading card collection which will officially be available from November 22 and offers a preview as to 2024 card designs and what to expec...

 
 
 
Book
 
How to Win a Grand Prix book cover
How to Win a Grand Prix book cover
How to Win a Grand Prix book cover

During the Singapore GP it was interesting to see how various strategy decisions for certain teams played a big part in the results – Lewis and Danny Ric with the obvious wrong soft tyre call to start the race.  There are...

 
Trading Cards
 

Topps UK have now released their 2024 season Turbo Attax F1 card set.  I’ve yet to get my hands on these cards yet but looking at Topps’ website and other online comments, these seem to be some of the new features for the 2024 ...

 
 
 
Book
 
Enzo Ferrari book cover
Enzo Ferrari book cover
Enzo Ferrari book cover

As the tifosi wonder whether Ferrari’s promising easy season form is going to fizzle out like 2022, what would old school Enzo Ferrari have done? There have been several biographies of the great Enzo Ferrari and even a recent A...

 
 
Book
 

Wow, Lando Norris must be feeling a bit flat after his tangles with Max during the weekend’s Austrian GP.  Lando is one of several F1 paddock personnel that give their personal story of how they got into the sport and their min...

 
 
 
Book
 

There have been a few books written about the business of F1 which is often more ruthless than the on-track battles. A new book to explore this side of F1 is “The Formula” by Wall Street Journal sports journalists J...

 
Ayrton Senna
 
Senna The Best Paolo de'Alessio
Senna The Best Paolo de'Alessio
Senna The Best Paolo de'Alessio

It was great seeing Seb Vettel, current drivers and the rest of the paddock get together to commemorate Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna’s passing at Imola. One of the renown Ayrton Senna photographers was Paolo de’Alessio....