Foreword by Damon Hill. This top-quality reference covers every aspect of Grand Prix racing, from the start of the modern-day F1 World Championship in 1950 to the present day. Filled with detailed chronicles of the efforts of driving greats Fangio, Moss, Mansell, Senna, Hill and Schumacher, plus season by season accounts with statistics, essential data on the top teams, classic races, the great cars, ground-breaking technology, and the world's top race circuits.
The Complete Encyclopedia of Formula One is the ideal guide to Grand Prix racing. Exciting photography alongside the text brings to life everything you need to know about this world of wealth, glamor and cutting-edge technology.
It's fast. Its' furious, and it's dramatic. Formulan One is the pinnacle in four wheeled-motor sport. Yet it's more than just man and machine pitched into contest at 16 points around the globe; it's about personalities, multi-million dollar budgets, and a story line that wouldn't disgrace a soap opera. This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive illustrated work of Formula One reference, covering every facet of Grand Prix racing from the start of the modern-day Formula One Championship in 1950 to the present day. With an expertly authoritative text along with a list of race-winners and a comprehensive chronology of Grand Prix racing, this fully-illustrated volume is the indispensable guide to the world's highest-octane sport.
The Complete Encyclopedia of Formula One is the essential guide to Grand Prix racing. With sections on the origins and history of Formula One, the best and the worst races, the controversies and the disasters, complete facts and stats, plus comprehensive A-Zs of the leading drivers, teams and managers as well as the Legends of the Track, this is the book that tells you everything you need to know about the world's most dynamic sport.
This book introduces readers to modern Thai literature through the themes of modernity, nationalism, identity and gender. In the cultural, political and social transformations that occurred in Thailand during the first half of the twentieth century, Thai literature was one of the vehicles that moved the changes. Taking seriously ‘read till it shatters’, a Thai phrase that instructs readers to take apart the text, to break it down, to deconstruct it, Thak Chaloemtiarana challenges the Thai literary canon from the margins and suggests ways of expanding and enriching it. Thai literature is scarce in translation and requires the skills of a scholar fluent in Thai to comprehend it. Thak is a political scientist turned literary scholar who is bilingual in Thai and English and an avid reader of Thai fiction by authors up and down the social scale. Here he offers lively insights into his favourite literary genres with fresh readings of early Thai novels, Sino-Thai biographies and memoirs of the rich and famous. ‘Thak Chaloemtiarana is an inquisitive man. Late in his career he switched from politics to literature. In these chapters, he draws on a lifetime of reading about writers and writing in Thailand over the past century. He nods towards the usual big names—King Vajiravudh, Luang Wichit, Kulap Saipradit, Kukrit Pramoj—but spends more time on those found in the lesser visited stacks of the libraries, the secondhand bookstalls, and the shelf by the supermarket checkout. His themes are familiar—Thailand and the West, Thai nationalism, the Thai-Chinese, and women under patriarchy—but the angles of vision are original. With a cast ranging from motor-racing princes through sexy Egyptian mummies and a feminist serial murderer to starlets touting breast-enhancement techniques, this book educates, enlightens, and entertains.’
An illustrated story of Formula one, from the first motor race in France back in 1894 to today's super-powerful vehicles driven by world superstars such as Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton, men who exchange paint with one another at incredible speeds on circuits all round the world.
Explore the global history of Formula One in this definitive visual reference. F1 Racing: The Ultimate Companion offers a comprehensive insight into the history, geography and culture of the world's most popular and exciting motorsport. Written by former Autosport editor Bruce Jones, it spotlights each of the forty-eight countries across six continents to have produced an F1 driver or hosted a grand prix, exploring the circuits, teams, people and stories that make up each nation's F1 heritage. With individual chapters dedicated to each country, this beautifully illustrated reference book profiles the drivers, constructors and tracks that have made their mark on Formula One and contributed to the sport's global expansion over more than seventy years of racing. Filled with stunning photography, circuit maps and expert commentary, F1 Racing: The Ultimate Companion is a fact-filled, globe-trotting guide to the world of motorsport for new fans and seasoned enthusiasts alike. e world of motorsport for new fans and seasoned enthusiasts alike.e world of motorsport for new fans and seasoned enthusiasts alike.e world of motorsport for new fans and seasoned enthusiasts alike.
