Book description
Formula One has been endangering the lives of its drivers, thrilling
its fans since its inaugural season of 1950. Charles Jennings tells the
fast and dangerous story of motor sports premier competition. He
explores the lost world of the 1950s racetrack, the irresistible rise of
British constructors in the 1960s, the impact of technological changes
from the late 1970s, the advent of the high-profile team boss in the
1980s and the revolution wrought on the sport by computers in the 1990s.
Throughout, he offers memorable profiles of the drivers who have risked
life and limb on circuits from Monte Carlo to Monza: the ebullient
Stirling Moss, the champagne-gargling James Hunt, the cerebral Prost and
the mercurial Senna, the metronomic Michael Schumacher, the precocious
Lewis Hamilton and the reborn Jenson Button. Formula One has been
endangering the lives of its drivers, thrilling its fans since its
inaugural season of 1950. Charles Jennings tells the fast and dangerous
story of motor sports premier competition. He explores the lost world of
the 1950s racetrack, the irresistible rise of British constructors in
the 1960s, the impact of technological changes from the late 1970s, the
advent of the high-profile team boss in the 1980s and the revolution
wrought on the sport by computers in the 1990s. Throughout, he offers
memorable profiles of the drivers who have risked life and limb on
circuits from Monte Carlo to Monza: the ebullient Stirling Moss, the
champagne-gargling James Hunt, the cerebral Prost and the mercurial
Senna, the metronomic Michael Schumacher, the precocious Lewis Hamilton
and the reborn Jenson Button.
