Bored and fancy some decent F1 stuff to read?

[lucky777]

It's seems an awfully long time to wait till next weekend when we get our next fix of F1 goodness so I thought we could have a thread where people add some stuff they've seen that's worth a read.

I'll start with these two excellent articles on how each teams qualifying performance this year has compaired with last season. There are a few surprises and some nice graphs as well.
http://www.pitlanefanatic.com/blog/index.php/464/m... and http://www.pitlanefanatic.com/blog/index.php/480/m...

[AlpineWhite]

On a different note, I've just finished reading "Winning is not enough", the autobiography by Jackie Stewart. The chapters talking about his early racing career, regular injury and death, and his decision to retire were particularly good.

[lucky777]

Ah, if you're talking books. The next one I plan to read is Grand Prix Sabateurs by Joe Saward. It's supposed to be quite heavy reading but worth the reward.

[SamHH]

It's been a while since I read it, but I would agree with that assessment. It's more of a book about the war than about motor racing though. There are accounts of the protagonists racing careers, but they're not particularly interesting. They're mainly there to set up the main story of their work in the resistance.

[dougc]

lucky777 said:

Ah, if you're talking books. The next one I plan to read is Grand Prix Sabateurs by Joe Saward. It's supposed to be quite heavy reading but worth the reward.

Recommended - read it last year and I couldn't put it down. Its almost as if the fates conspired to make the perfect book for blokes.

Motor Racing + WW2 + Spying

And its all true!

[hot metal]

If you fancy some old stuff try THE CHEQUERED YEAR by Ted Simon if you can find a copy. Its about the 1970 season and the formation of the March F1 team,gripping stuff.

[entropy]

Prost v Senna

Read bits of it and can't wait for it to come out on paperback

[Nick M]

dougc said:

lucky777 said:

Ah, if you're talking books. The next one I plan to read is Grand Prix Sabateurs by Joe Saward. It's supposed to be quite heavy reading but worth the reward.

Recommended - read it last year and I couldn't put it down. Its almost as if the fates conspired to make the perfect book for blokes.

Motor Racing + WW2 + Spying

And its all true!

I found it quite hard work keeping track of who was who, but then I wasn't able to read it non-stop, just a chunk at a time each day on the train.

Interesting and fascinating, but the author can waffle on a bit at times IMO.

Definitely worth a read though.

[StevieBee]

Have just started re-reading Terry Lovel's "Bernie's Game"

Forgot how enlightening this book was and along with Nigel Roebuck's Grand Prix years 1981 to 1983, proof that nothing is new in F1.

For something less hard going; Perry McCarthy's Flat out Flat broke is just fantastic fun.

[anonymous-user]

i thought jackie stewarts book was utter tosh. all those pages about his friendships with royalty and his shooting chums....

[Miss Pitstop]

So, thread revival here...

Anyone got any good motorsport book recommendations to keep us going over the winter? I've just ordered a few from Amazon (used books from 1p!) but any "must reads" would be good.

I read Eddie Jordans book recently which was suprisingly interesting, but have now exhuasted the "motorsport" bookcase - any ideas for my next read?

[hot metal]

Just don`t read Eddie Irvine`s book ,it`s sheee`ite.

[Slippydiff]

Proff Sid Watkins Life at the limit.

[plg101]

It's easy reading, but I enjoyed Williams by Maurice Hamilton.

Respect FW guy even more after reading that...

Alternatively, second hand bookshop and £20 worth of 1950's and 1960's Motorsport magazines is fascinating.

[hot metal]

Slippydiff said:

Proff Sid Watkins Life at the limit.

+1, good read.

[AndrewW-G]

pablo said:

i thought jackie stewarts book was utter tosh. all those pages about his friendships with royalty and his shooting chums....

Loved the section near the start where he prattles on about the importance of accuracy in any part of his life..................then described the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake as being in Lancashire

[Nick M]

"Crashed and Byrned" by Mark Hughes

Any of Steve Matchett's books, although they're a few years old now.

[anonymous-user]

AndrewW-G said:

pablo said:

i thought jackie stewarts book was utter tosh. all those pages about his friendships with royalty and his shooting chums....

Loved the section near the start where he prattles on about the importance of accuracy in any part of his life..................then described the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake as being in Lancashire

Up until 1974, it was in Lancashire and some info on the clubs website still lists itself as in Lancashire. 1974 was when the boundaries were changed to create Merseyside and Greater Manchester, which were taken out of Lancashire. I was born in Manchester in 1965 and was known as a Lancashire lad, it took a very long time for people to take on board the new borders, a lot of Mancunians and Merseysiders still consider themselves Lancastrians.

[Zhastaph]

pablo said:

i thought jackie stewarts book was utter tosh. all those pages about his friendships with royalty and his shooting chums....

the 1/3rd or so of the book that was actually about his racing career was really good, as for the rest .......... +1

As suggested by someone else; Crash and Byrned which is definately one of the best reads I've had.

I thought Irv's book was ok, though it depends on what you're interested in - from my point of view it gave an excellent insight in to the Ferrari of the late 90s from the other side of the garage.

[jonnylayze]

Doug Nye's BRM trilogy are the best motor racing books I've read - can't wait for Vol 4 to come out (hurry up Doug!!)