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senna Fiona Beddall book cover
senna Fiona Beddall book cover
senna Fiona Beddall book cover

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...

 
 
DVD
 
gentleman's motor racing diary bluray
gentleman's motor racing diary bluray
gentleman's motor racing diary bluray

If you’re a fan of the 1950’s-60’s grand prix racing with teammates Fangio and Moss in the Silver Arrows alongside Hawthorn, the Lancia Ferraris, BRM and Vanwall in addition to vintage Aston Martin GT and Le M...

 
 
 
Book
 
piloti che gente book cover
piloti che gente book cover
piloti che gente book cover

A reader was asking about “Piloti, che gente” which I tagged (since the early days of F1-nut.com) as the one of the best (if not the best) Ferrari F1 books published and only realised (several years later…) that I hadn’t ...

 
Diecast models
 
CMC Lancia D50 top down
CMC Lancia D50 top down
CMC Lancia D50 top down
 

CMC 2020 catalog – a quick peek

 
February 2, 2021
 



Although the most valuable CMC diecasts are its sportscar models such as the Ferrari Sypder and 250 GTO, CMC do offer a decent range of vintage 1:18 grand prix F1 diecast models and from a F1 diecast collectors’ perspecti...

 
 
 
Book
 
speed kings john smailes book cover
speed kings john smailes book cover
speed kings john smailes book cover

I initially picked up a copy of John Smailes’ Speed Kings being keen to read up on the early forays by 1960’s drivers like Sir Jack Brabham, Jim Clark, Bruce McLaren, Chris Amon and Denny Hulme to race at the Indian...

 
Diecast models
 

Looking back at 2020, it’s certainly been an overwhelming year with COVID outbreaks globally. Similar to the market shift to online retail and the surge in demand for home based goods – I think COVID has definitely re-inv...

 
 
 
Book
 
Alain Prost Maurice Hamilton book cover
Alain Prost Maurice Hamilton book cover
Alain Prost Maurice Hamilton book cover

After reading recent interview comments by Alain Prost on Renault’s 2020 season campaign and Fernando’s comeback, it’s hard not to imagine how he might have performed in the Renault RS20. The number of Alain Prost books are rel...

 
 
Book
 
Mclaren The Cars 2020 book cover
Mclaren The Cars 2020 book cover
Mclaren The Cars 2020 book cover

I’ve always rated Coterie Press’ and William Taylor’s “McLaren the Cars” highly and it’s included in my list of favourite F1 books to own or read. So with the release of the 3rd edition which...