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There have been times when I will flip a coin to decide which book in my collection to review or maybe a current news item might make me search for a book on a specific driver or team. With much of the media speculation about t...
Book
Time for a random book review. Like many F1 fans, Gilles Villeneuve was one of my favorite drivers. Some time ago I picked up an Italian book on Gilles, “Gilles Fra Mito e Legenda” (English translation – the myth and legend of ...
Book
With the media stirring (somewhat optimistic) rumors about Honda coming back to F1 after 2014, as a Honda fan this is exciting. There several good Honda F1 books like Christopher Hilton’s “Conquest of Formula 1” (which I will g...
Book
Sebastian Vettel’s 34th career pole at Suzuka in such a short space of time reminds me of a lot of the dominance Ayrton Senna had on pole position. Senna and Suzuka were always an awesome combination and it made me to re-read m...
Diecast models
At the top end of the F1 diecast replica models would be Amalgam Collection – their mainstream F1 diecasts are in 1:8 scale and they also produce 1:5 and 1:12 scales. Amalgam models come with high end price tags too, the ...
Book
Even though Michael Schumacher has clocked up 7 Formula One titles and is still (at least this year) grand prix racing at the youthful age of 43, Juan Manuel Fangio is the real benchmark for mature age drivers. I bought Fangio ...
Book
With the passing of legendary F1 medico, Professor Sid Watkins, I had to dust off my ragged copy of his 1996 book Life at the Limit – Triumph and Tragedy in Formula One for a quick re-read. This book is an interesting account o...
Diecast models
In the 1:43 scale models, Spark models are a serious alternative to the popular Minichamps models. Spark models are resin based and in recent years they have been able to license current season cars like Marussia, HRT, Lotus, S...
Book
General F1 history books come in 2 types – the large photo ‘encyclopedias’ or the story-based paperbacks. Burning Rubber – The Extraordinary Story of Formula One by Charles Jennings falls squarely into the second category...
