Formula 1 Fanatic

Author:

By Koen Vergeer

Format:

Paperback

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Motor Sport, Formula 1, Reflections on the Game

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Further Details

• Published: 2nd Feb 2004
• ISBN: 0747568421
• Pages: 320
• Size: 198mm x 129mm

From Word of Sport:

A passionate and evocative history of Formula 1 which interweaves the lives and deaths of Jacky Ickx, Graham Hill, Jochen Rindt, Jackie Stewart, Nigel Mansell and Ayrton Senna with the progress of the author's boyhood obsession. The result is an exhileratingly intense appreciaton of the sport's gripping appeal.

From the Publisher:

Koen Vergeer cleverly interweaves the lives and deaths of such legendary drivers as Jochen Rindt, Ronnie Peterson, Gilles Villeneuve, and Ayrton Senna with the progress of his boyhood obsession. His accounts of the titanic fights between the top drivers - like the professor Alain Prost (cool, precise and seldom failing) and the son of God Senna (incredibly fast, but at times unpredictable) or Damon Hill (impossibly burdened by his father's reputation) and Michael Schumacher (apparently infallible) - are only matched by the even more ferocious rivalry between the top teams. For anyone enthralled by motor-racing, Formula 1 Fanatic is a feast of recognition and nostalgia. For those who know nothing about Formula 1, it explains a mystery of an obsession.