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Trading Cards
Trading card news: Topps pre-sale offers preview of Topps Chrome F1 2023
Happy New Year to all readers! For card collectors eagerly waiting for Topps 2023 Chrome Formula 1 collection, Topps’ US site a few days ago opened a pre-sale for 2023 Chrome hobby boxes and hobby box cases for shipping b...
Trading Cards
Investing in the next F1 rookie card (a look at current F1 & F2 rookie Topps F1 trading card sales…)
Trading card collectors know that just like world champion titles, Lewis and Max trading cards currently dominate the higher value secondary market sales. However, savvy collectors are always on the lookout for speculative rook...
Diecast models
Diecast Review: Looksmart 1:43 scale Charles Leclerc 2022 Ferrari F1-75
The front running battle between Max and Charles during last weekend’s Las Vegas GP reminded everyone of what 2022 could have been for Ferrari and Charles. As streamlined as the Red Bull RB18 looked last year, the real ey...
Book
New book review: Unstoppable The Ultimate Biography of Max Verstappen by Mark Hughes
By chalking up another 2023 race victory in Sao Paulo, Max Verstappen appears to be effortlessly and clinically breaking past F1 records that now move him into the elite class of F1 drivers. Back in June, I reviewed James Gray&...
Diecast models
Diecast review: Sparky 1:64 scale 2022 Mercedes AMG W13 Lewis Hamilton
With Lewis’ post race disqualification at COTA US Grand Prix last weekend, Mercedes engineers are obviously still trying to master the modern era ground effects F1 chassis. Last month I posted a short review on Spark̵...
DVD
DVD Review: Hunt v Lauda The Next Generation
When I first came across the cover of this DVD, I thought it was another dramatisation of 1976’s famous F1 title clash between Niki Lauda and James Hunt like Ron Howard’s Rush. Actually, it’s a 2021 documentar...
