Racing book recommendations

[jpf]

You are stuck on Howe Island and can have 4 racing books. What do you choose?

[kenthardy]

The Piranha Club
Maurice Hamilton's biog of Ken Tyrrell
Jo Ramirez's autobiography - Memoirs of a Racing Man
Sid Watkins' autobiography - lent it to someone never got it back so don't know what it's called!

Not JYS' book - great story, great achievements but too much name dropping!

Or any of the books about a 22 year old novice driver who's just failed to win the Championship - wait till you've had a life !

[SamHH]

Some recommendations here:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[kenthardy]

Steve Matchett's The Mechanics Tale - good one too

[kevin ritson]

One of Donaldson's biographies, probably Gilles Villeneuve, although Hunt's philandering is just as entertaining.

Richard Williams' Racers just beats The Death of Ayrton Senna, simply because there's more text to keep me going

Then I would have two excellent volumes of great writing to keep me entertained, Jenks: A Passion for Motor Sport and Roebuck's Chasing the Title to delve into.

[geofflowe]

I bought this: - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Remembering-Elio-Italian-D... and can recommend it.

[jpf]

Remembering Elio--I was thinking about this as a gift for my 10 year old son who is a piano playing, baseball playing F1 nut.

Appropriate for a 10 year old?

[hostile17]

'Formula 1 Fanatic' by Koen Vergeer would have to be on my list. This is one book that really gets the fascination bordering on obssession that Formula 1 can engender, and his descriptions and characterisations of all the great F1 drivers are spot-on, too.

[geofflowe]

jpf said:

Remembering Elio--I was thinking about this as a gift for my 10 year old son who is a piano playing, baseball playing F1 nut.

Appropriate for a 10 year old?

Sorry, you lost me there....

[jpf]

Hate to sound cautious, but sex, drugs, rock and roll?

Rated PG? PG-13? R? NC-17?