Author Archive
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Book Review: Formula 1 1950-today by Rainer Schlegelmilch and Hartmut Lehbrink
This excellent Schlegelmilch and Lebhrink photobook published in 2005 probably sits in between two other Schlegelmilch books Fascination Formula One and 50 Years of Formula One. Yes, it does include several repeat photos from h...
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Book Review: Formula One Circuits from Above by Bruce Jones
Suzuka is such a beautiful circuit with its unique curves and figure 8 layout. A book that uses Google Earth aerial photos to map F1 circuits is Bruce Jones’ “F1 Circuits from Above”. This landscape format har...
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Book Review: Auto Union V16 Supercharged by Ian Bamsey
The rumours of Audi making a return to F1 with Red Bull have probably now been doused by the likely heavy financial cost of parent VW’s diesel emission scandal. Mercedes have been romping home this year on the back of their V6 ...
Diecast models
Minichamps 2015 catalog 2
For those that are interested, the 2nd Minichamps diecast and resin catalogs for 2015 can be seen online. Aside from this seasons cars, the interesting F1 resins for 2015 (re-badged Sparks) are: Red Bull 2015 RB11 pre-season te...
Diecast models
F1 world championship diecasts
I received an email from a reader in Singapore asking about the various F1 world championship winning cars available in diecast (or resin for Spark models). Seems like this would be something useful to share with other collecto...
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Rare Book Review: Adriane My Life with Ayrton by Adriane Galisteu
Adriane Galisteu’s book ‘My Life with Ayrton‘ when it was published in 1994 after the death of the great Brazilian caused a few waves at the time. It’s also one of the few F1 books I’m aware of tha...
