Author Archive
Book
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...
DVD
DVD Review: A Gentleman’s Motor Racing Diary
If you’re a fan of the 1950’s-60’s grand prix racing with teammates Fangio and Moss in the Silver Arrows alongside Hawthorn, the Lancia Ferraris, BRM and Vanwall in addition to vintage Aston Martin GT and Le M...
Book
Rare book review: Piloti, che gente… by Enzo Ferrari (Cartier edition)
A reader was asking about “Piloti, che gente” which I tagged (since the early days of F1-nut.com) as the one of the best (if not the best) Ferrari F1 books published and only realised (several years later…) that I hadn’t ...
Diecast models
CMC 2020 catalog – a quick peek
Although the most valuable CMC diecasts are its sportscar models such as the Ferrari Sypder and 250 GTO, CMC do offer a decent range of vintage 1:18 grand prix F1 diecast models and from a F1 diecast collectors’ perspecti...
Book
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...
Diecast models
2020 review – COVID and F1 diecast and book values
Looking back at 2020, it’s certainly been an overwhelming year with COVID outbreaks globally. Similar to the market shift to online retail and the surge in demand for home based goods – I think COVID has definitely re-inv...
