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Book Review: Ayrton Senna – Memories and Momentoes from a Life Lived at Full Speed by Christopher Hilton
The first week of May is always an annual remembrance time for Ayrton Senna fans. Despite his passing being 25 years ago, Senna is probably the most written about F1 driver. At last count, there have been at least 30 English la...
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Book Review: Jenson Button – Life to the Limit My Autobiography
I’m always a sucker for driver autobiographies – although published in 2017, I’ve only recently managed to read Jenson Button’s “Life to the Limit”. Despite not being a hardcore Jenson Button fan, this book is a pretty go...
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Book review: Total Competition – Lessons in Strategy from Formula One by Ross Brawn and Adam Parr
I was reading Ross Brawn’s recent comments on the ambitions for the new 2021 regulations. Recent F1 fans may not remember Ross Brawn but he is best known as the world champion winning principal of his own team, Brawn GP and bef...
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Rare Book Review: Ferrari 1947-1997 The Official Book
Based on early pre-season testing, Ferrari seriously look the goods this year. Enough to inspire me to look for some recent Ferrari books — putting aside Taschen’s $30,000 priced Ferrari Art Edition book, it’s the older titles ...
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Book Review: Michael Schumacher Sebastian Vettel Zwei Champions – Neun Truimphe
As we are reminded of Michael Schumacher’s 50th birthday, many F1 fans still greatly miss the legendary German driver. While Schumi’s countryman – Sebastian Vettel tries to emulate the revival of Ferrari in the footsteps ...
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Bluray Review: Ferrari 312B
Hope many of you managed to receive a nice F1 gift for Christmas. My present was a Bluray documentary film on the iconic flat v12 powered Ferrari 312B raced in the early 1970’s. This film traces the recent restoration pro...
