Author Archive
Diecast models
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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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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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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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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Book review: F1 Mavericks by Pete Biro and George Levy
During the current COVID lockdowns, I decided to pickup some new and old F1 books online which can be a bit of a gamble sometimes. One pleasant surprise was “F1 Mavericks” by George Levy (former Autoweek editor) wit...
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Book review: All but my life – Stirling Moss face to face with Ken W. Purdy
With the British GP on this weekend, I’ve been spending time looking through some older published books on Sir Stirling Moss. One that I had burrowed away in a pile of old books was “All but my life” which was...
