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Rare Book Review: The Enzo Ferrari Memoirs: My Terrible Joys by Enzo Ferrari
Whenever there is political unrest within Ferrari, I always can’t help imagining what the great il Commendatore would be thinking. In 2017, we can only look back at some of the few books written by Enzo himself for some g...
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Book Review: Ferrari F1 1964-1976 by Piero Casucci
If the rumours are true, Ferrari are removing the white strips from their race livery and going back to the full red coloured chassis for the 2017 season. The famous red and white Ferrari race cars that come to mind were the 3...
Diecast models
Diecasts: 2016 a year in review
2016 was an interesting year for diecast collectors. If you were a Minichamps F1 collector, 2016 provided a good opportunity to pickup previously hard to find cars due to their re-released World Champions collection and Senna c...
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Book Review: Ayrton Senna Above and Beyond by Pierre Menard and Jacques Vassal
Ayrton Senna Above and Beyond is part of the Formula 1 Legends series published in the early 2000’s which also featured dedicated titles on Alain Prost and Niki Lauda. Being written by French motorsports journalists, the ...
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New Book Review: Staying on Track – the Autobiography by Nigel Mansell
To me, F1 in the 90’s was much more exciting due to the hard charging driving of Nigel Mansell. Like Lewis Hamilton, Nigel Mansell was a Silverstone crowd legend. Nigel’s 2015 autobiography “Staying on Track” has been recently ...
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Rare Book Review: The Lotus Book by William Taylor
As a F1 book collector, its no secret to readers of this site that one of my favourite publishers are Coterie Press. William Taylor’s “The Lotus Book: The Complete History of Lotus Cars” was released some whil...
