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Book Review: My Championship Year by Jenson Button

With all the pre-season management shuffling inside Mercedes GP and Jenson Button topping the early recent Jerez testing times, I couldn’t help myself from re-reading Jenson Button’s review of his own 2009 world cha...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Rare Book Review: Ayrton Senna’s Principles of Race Driving by Ayrton Senna

There have been a few technical race driving books published by F1 drivers over the years, including Jackie Stewart’s ‘Principles of Performance Driving‘, Alain Prost’s ‘Competition Driving‘ ...
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
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Book Review: Memories of James Hunt by Christopher Hilton

One of the more tongue-in-cheek moments of 2012 was Kimi Räikkönen’s homage to James Hunt at Monaco by using Hunt’s race helmet livery. With Ron Howard’s Rush coming to theatres this year, we are probably goin...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
DVD
 

DVD Review: The Official Tribute to Senna

Having spotted an Amalgam McLaren MP4/4 diecast in Hong Kong on a recent visit, I was inspired to dig up my old copy of The Official Tribute to Senna. This is a 2 disc DVD compilation of various Senna documentaries – The ...
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
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Book Review: Viva Ma Vie by Alain Prost

Written in 1993 this is Alain's effort to clear up the early 90s public perception of his racing personality...although it isn't able to cover Alain's time as team principal of Prost GP.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
DVD
 

DVD Review: Grand Prix Heroes – Ronnie Peterson by Duke Video

Being a Ronnie Peterson fan, I was lucky enough to get a copy of the Duke DVD Grand Prix Heroes: Ronnie Peterson from Santa this year. Having relied in the past on grainy old VHS tapes and equally grainy video clips on YouTube ...