Book description
In the years since Sid Watkins' first bestselling book of Formula One
memoirs, Life at the Limit, was published the sport has seen enormous
changes. The FIA's President, Max Mosley, has launched a zero option
policy with the goal of zero mortality and much research and development
has gone into technical changes to the cars, circuit design, safety
barrier development and personal protection in the cockpit. The Prof has
been intimately involved with this work, and discusses it in detail
here, but as he knows only too well, uncertainty and unpredictability
provide the thrills both the fans and the drivers crave. In Beyond the
Limit, Watkins also looks at some of the extraordinary Grands Prix the
sport has seen in the last four years, including Schumacher's epic crash
at Silverstone in 1999. He also looks back over his twenty or more years
in the sport and discusses some of the great drivers he has known. Here,
too, is a race-by-race account of the Millenium season offering a
completely up-to-date picture of Formula One at the beginning of the
21st century.
