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The Essential Formula One
Booklist
Formula 1 fans, feast your eyes. Here's a range that covers Murray Walker's Formula One Heroes, the Formula One doctor's stories, The Mechanic's Tale, the history of the world's most glamorous sport, the guides that give full information on the 2001 drivers, cars and circuits and books on the most famous driver and team of our times-- Schumi and Ferrari.
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Michael
Schumacher: Driving Force
Michael Schumacher, Sabine Kehm
Synopsis
Since 1994 Michael Schumacher has dominated Grand Prix,
winning the FIA World championship in five of the nine
seasons. In 2001/2002 he broke almost every motor racing
record and is the most successful Formula One driver of
all time. This book reveals the real Michael Schumacher
through extensive first person material as well as a
narrative by Sabine Kehm, a journalist, colleague and
friend of Schumacher. Readers will learn about
Schumacher's past, the secrets of his extraordinary
success, his family, his view of other drivers and the
state of F1, his opinion of controversial races and
drivers, and will be given an insider's view of Ferrari. |
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Twenty
Five Years of William F1: The Authorised Photographic
Biography
Book Description
Fully authorised by Patrick Head and Sir Frank Williams
this is the photographic autobiography of the legendary
F1 team. Published for their silver jubilee year.
Synopsis
This is the authorised photographic story of one of the
great F1 teams. Established in 1977 by Frank Williams (a
not particularly successful driver) and a young,
talented engineer Patrick Head, Williams have since won
seven drivers championships, 108 grand prix victories
and nine constructors' championships. Since the start
Williams have created an exclusive, hand-selected
archive of the best photographs of the team and their
successes. This is first time these photographs have
been used in a book and the first time many have been
seen.
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Bernie's
Game by Terry Lovell
Synopsis
This biography tells how a street-sharp, working-class
kid became one of the most powerful and wealthiest
figures in sport. For more than 30 years, Bernie
Ecclestone has ruthlessly exploited and dominated
Formula One motor racing to become the third richest man
in the United Kingdom with a family fortune worth £3
billion. To those within his elite circle, particularly
those who have benefited from the labours of his
wheeler-dealing, he is both feared and admired for the
way in which he has masterminded the transformation of
Formula One from an amateur sport of the Fifties into a
global billion-dollar industry of the 21st century. But
along the way there have been many, not only in Formula
One but in motor sports at large, who have suffered at
his hands - the weak and the gullible, the politcally
naive and unsuspecting. They have a different story to
tell. "Bernie's Game" strips away the sexy
veneer of Formula One to look behind the hype that
sustains it. It opens the august portals of the
Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, the body that
governs Formula One, to discover the avarice,
callousness and corruption of its rules. |
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Juan
Pablo Montoya
by Christopher Hilton
Synopsis
Juan Pablo Montoya is possibly the most exciting driver
to hit Formula 1 since Michael Schumacher, and seemingly
the one most likely to challenge the five-times world
champion. Hilton charts Montoya's full race career,
giving an insight into his F1 debut with Williams and
the consolidation of 2002 which took him to the
threshold of superstardom. |
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Flat Out, Flat Broke: Formula 1 the Hard Way!
Damon Hill (Foreword), Perry McCarthy
Perry McCarthy does for Formula One what Bill Bryson did for travel writing.
Synopsis
Perry McCarthy decided at the age of 18 that he wanted to reach the top of the world's most expensive sport. With no racing experience, no cash, and little going for him except a passion for speed, the exhuberant Cockney shouldn't have stood a chance. His endless search for backing and recognition led him from "The world's unluckiest racing driver" to his heroic, often hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking efforts to make it into Formula 1. This is his autobiography, which covers his wild...
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Inside the Mind of the Grand Prix Driver by Christopher Hilton
In a series of probing interviews with top Formula 1 drivers, past and present, Christopher Hilton gets deep behind the image to find what really makes them tick. With unprecedented candour they discuss their strengths and weaknesses, how they cope with incessant danger, and the compulsive drive for which they risk life. Analysis by a top sports psychologist adds a unique depth to this revealing study. |
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Beyond the Limit
~Sid Watkins
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Hardcover - Macmillan / 25 May, 2001
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Synopsis
This text takes a look at some of the Grand Prix in the years 1996-2000 in Formula One racing. It includes Schumacher's epic crash at Silverstone in 1999. The author also looks back at his own career and discusses some of the great drivers he has known. |
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Beyond the Pit Lane
~Louise Goodman
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Paperback - Headline / 5 July, 2001
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Synopsis
Formula One is the world's most glamorous sport, attracting a huge following, but few come to know what is really going on behind the scenes. Louise Goodman, the UK's only female Formula One TV presenter, has been working in the sport for many years now, and her race-by-race diary of the season... |
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The Official Grand Prix Guide 2001
~Bruce Jones
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Paperback - Carlton Books / 1 February, 2001
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Review
Bruce Jones's excellent The Official Grand Prix Guide 2001 more than lives up to the standards of its predecessors in the increasingly impressive ITV-F1 stable. A striking all-colour guide, with a foreword from Murray Walker--who avers that it contains "everything you need to know"--the guide... |
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Autocourse 2000-2001 (Autocourse, 2000-2001)
~Alan Henry
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Hardcover - Hazelton Publishing (UK) / 12 January, 2001
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Synopsis
In its golden anniversary year, "Autocourse" will include special features providing a perspective on the last 50 years of Formula 1, as well as the usual extensive motor sport coverage. This 50th edition includes reports from every Grand Prix race of the season; the eagerly awaited top ten drivers... |
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The Official Encyclopedia of Formula One
~Bruce Jones
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Paperback - Carlton Books / 30 April, 2001
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Synopsis
The Pocket Encyclopedia of Formula One will be the world's handiest work of Formula One reference, covering the highest echelon of motor sport from every angle: from the day that modern Formula One dawned in front of the Royal Family at Silverstone in 1950 to the high-tech, high-finance world circus... |
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Life in the Fast Lane
~Eddie Irvine, Jane Nottage
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Paperback - Ebury Press / 16 November, 2000
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Review
On occasions I felt some people were reluctant to contradict Michael as they seemed scared of upsetting him and of him leaving the team. I have to say that taking life by the balls is not a great strength of all Europeans. When balls where given out in Ireland and England, they seem to have run out... |
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Murray Walker's Formula One Heroes
~Murray Walker, Simon Taylor
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Hardcover - Virgin Books / 19 October, 2000
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'Murray Walker's Formula One Heroes is a collaboration with long-time motor racing journalist Simon Taylor and profiles the drivers that have a special place in the commentator's heart. It presents a comprehensive description of their achievements and their personalities both in and out of the... |
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The Mechanic's Tale
~Steve Matchett
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Paperback - Orion Paperbacks / 3 February, 2000
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Steve Matchett's philosophical account of life behind the scenes of Formula One is a gem of a book which will keep the reader enthralled from beginning to end. In The Mechanic's Tale, a follow-up to his previous offering Life in the Fast Lane, the former Benetton mechanic produces an account of his... |
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Formula One Uncovered
~Derick Allsop
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Paperback - Headline / 8 July, 1999
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Derek Allsop, motor racing writer for the Independent, has enjoyed the privilege of covering Formula One for 18 years. His wealth of experience has seen him write six books on Grand Prix racing and his seventh, Formula One Uncovered, is a rare treat for those seeking the inside story on the... |
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Life at the Limit: Triumph and Tragedy in Formula One
~Sid Watkins
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Paperback - Pan / 6 June, 1997
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Synopsis
This work offers the memoirs of Grand Prix's on-track doctor, Professor Sid Watkins. If there is a crash, it is Watkins who gets there first. He is closely involved in improving safety at the circuits and in developing rapid response medical rescue. |
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Schumi
~Alan Henry
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Paperback - Queensgate Publications / 1 April, 2000
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Book Description
Michael Schumacher is a phenomenon. His million-dollar deal to drive for Ferrari is matched only by the millions of fans that shadow his every move in what is a very public quest to secure the F1 World Championship crown for the legendary Italian team. And yet halfway through the 1999 season the... |
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Michael Schumacher
~Christopher Hilton
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Hardcover - Haynes Group / 16 April, 2001
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Synopsis
Lavishly illustrated and packed with new information, this book - from the author of Haynes's best-selling Michael Schumacher: Controversial Genius - takes the story up to the present with a detailed examination of Schumacher's career since joining Ferrari. It analyses the sublime races and the... |
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Michael Schumacher: Driven to Extremes
~James Allen
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Paperback - Bantam / 6 April, 2000
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Book Description
The official behind-the-scenes story of Schumacher and Ferrari's 1998 Grand Prix season, revised and updated to include his astonishing comeback in the 1999 season with additional photos. |
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Ferrari: Formula 1 Racing Team
~David Tremayne
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Hardcover - Haynes Group / 16 April, 2001
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When Michael Schumacher crossed the finish line to win the 2000 Japanese Grand Prix, giving Ferrari their first Drivers' World Championship since 1979, motor racing fans around the world rejoiced. Here is the inside story of the most famous racing team in the world. After honing their competitive... |
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Enzo Ferrari: a Life
~Richard Williams
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Hardcover - Jonathan Cape / 15 November, 2001
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Ferrari, the name itself evokes the world of speed, a world of fast cars, heroic deeds and glamour. This is the story of the man behind the name. Enzo Ferrari never contributed as much as a single sketch to the design of the product that carries his name, other men did that for him. Yet his towering... |
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Formula One
~Mark Venables
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Hardcover - New Holland Publishers Pty Ltd (AUS) / 1 April, 2001
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Synopsis
This is the global story of Formula One racing from 1950 to 2000: its great drivers, its great races, its great circuits, and the landmarks in the development of its technology. Information-packed pages make maximum use of pinsharp photography and high-speed action shots. Maps, photographs and text... |
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The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Formula One
~Bruce Jones (Editor), Damon Hill
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Hardcover - Hodder & Stoughton General / 21 October, 1999
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Synopsis
This revised and updated text provides essential facts not only of the top teams and the top drivers, but also of the great races, the most testing circuits and the rise and fall of famous names. |
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