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Senna Hard Edge of Genious Hilton book cover
Senna Hard Edge of Genious Hilton book cover
Senna Hard Edge of Genious Hilton book cover

Book Review: Ayrton Senna – The Hard Edge of Genius by Christopher Hilton

While making some long overdue updates to the Best Ayrton Senna books page on the site, it dawned that there are still a number of older Senna books I’ve forgotten to post reviews of. The obvious one is the rare Monumenta...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Lauda The Rebel Menard Vassal book cover
Lauda The Rebel Menard Vassal book cover
Lauda The Rebel Menard Vassal book cover

Book review: Niki Lauda The Rebel by Pierre Menard and Jacques Vassal

As we return to Zandvoort this weekend for the highly anticipated Dutch GP, it’s a reminder of the last GP won by the late great multiple world champion Niki Lauda for McLaren in his retirement year back in 1985. There ha...
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
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all but my life book cover
all but my life book cover
all but my life book cover

Book review: All but my life – Stirling Moss face to face with Ken W. Purdy

With the British GP on this weekend, I’ve been spending time looking through some older published books on Sir Stirling Moss. One that I had burrowed away in a pile of old books was “All but my life” which was...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Ayrton Senna - Bruce Jones book cover
Ayrton Senna - Bruce Jones book cover
Ayrton Senna - Bruce Jones book cover

Book Review: Ayrton Senna – Portrait of a Racing Legend by Bruce Jones

I recently picked up a copy of Bruce Jones’ 2019 Senna tribute book “Ayrton Senna – Portrait of a Racing Legend” sight unseen purely based on the book’s cover and that it was published to mark the ...
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
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Ayrton Senna All His Races book cover
Ayrton Senna All His Races book cover
Ayrton Senna All His Races book cover

Book Review: Ayrton Senna All his races by Tony Dodgins

As we head into this weekend’s GP at Imola, for better or worse, this circuit now forever reminds fans of Ayrton Senna. There have been so many Senna books published, it’s often difficult to distinguish between the them and unl...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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senna Fiona Beddall book cover
senna Fiona Beddall book cover
senna Fiona Beddall book cover

Book Review: Senna by Fiona Beddall

Another Senna book for junior readers is Scholastic’s and Fiona Beddall’s “Senna”. This book is part of Scholastic’s series in a short form format aimed at the intermediate junior teenage reader level as opposed to the kids sto...