Author Archive
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Book Review: The Death of Senna by Richard Williams
I have to confess that I’ve had a copy of Richard Williams’ ‘The Death of Ayrton Senna‘ sitting on my shelf for the last 10 years and never properly read it from front to back. Until this week that is. O...
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Rare Book Review: Senna – Portrait of a Racing Legend by Richard Hawkins and Hugh Gollner
One of the harder to find photo books on Ayrton Senna is ‘Senna: Portrait of a Racing Legend‘. This medium-large square hardcover book is similar in size but slightly bigger than Paul Henri-Cahier’s photobook ...
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Book Review: Echoes of Imola by David Tremayne
As we get closer to 1st May and the 20th anniversary of the passing of Ayrton Senna, I picked out an old 1996 David Tremayne book “Echoes of Imola” to re-read over the Easter break. Despite its age, I re-discovered...
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Rare Book Review: Ronnie Peterson – Formula 1 Super Swede by Johnny Tipler
2014 Rookie Marcus Ericsson of the Caterham F1 team is the first Swedish driver on the grid since Ronnie Peterson. Ronnie of course was a legend in the heroic 70’s era of F1 racing. If you’re a Ronnie Peterson fan, ...
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Rare Book Review: Racing the Silver Arrows by Chris Nixon
Well, Lewis in the W05 looked supreme in Malaysia. The early form of Mercedes suggest they are clearly going to be the best F1 team this season and may re-kindle the kind of dominance the German marque enjoyed in the 30’s...
Diecast models
F1 1:18 diecast review: Exoto v Quartzo – Jim Clark Lotus 49
Last year I posted a review of Quartzo’s 1:18 scale model of Jim Clark’s Lotus 49 in which he won the 1967 British GP. I made a comment that the Quartzo compared well with the Exoto version – there are 2 Exoto...
