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Book Review: Speed Addicts by Mark Hughes
If there was a prize for a F1 book cover that didn’t quite do justice to the superb photography and content hidden inside, the award just might go to Mark Hughes’ book, “Speed Addicts”. No disrespect to ...
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Book Review: Conquest of Formula 1 – The inside story of the men who took Honda to victory by Christopher Hilton
As everyone cheers Honda’s decision to return to Formula 1 in 2015, its hard not to get all misty eyed nostalgic about Honda’s heritage and past success in the sport (if only they had stayed on in 2009!). There have...
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Book Review: Wheel to Wheel by Alan Henry
There has been some nice inter-team wheel banging so far this year with Webber-Vettel and Button-Perez. Team rivalry in F1 has always been pumped up by the media and there has been a rich history of drivers arch rivalry in the ...
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Book Review: My Greatest Race edited by Adrian Ball
Unless they have achieved rare status, many of the older pre-80s F1 books get overlooked or forgotten in old bookstores or collections. I’ve been re-reading a few from my own collection recently. Published in 1974 for the...
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Book Review: Grand Prix Yesterday & Today by Bruce Jones
Bruce Jones is the author of several excellent F1 history books like “Treasures of Formula One”. In Grand Prix Yesterday & Today, he takes a slightly different twist from his other books by contrasting aspects o...
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Book Review: Formula 1 in Camera 1980-89 by Quentin Spurring and Rainer Schlegelmilch
The cover of Formula 1 in Camera 1980-89 should probably be added to the list of best F1 book covers – it features a fantastic Rainer Schlegelmilch shot of Ayrton Senna cornering through an apex (looks like the right hand...
