Watercraft and aircraft should probably be excluded as well, but that hasn't stopped comparisons from happening anyway; Tazio Nuvolari once raced against a Caproni biplane in his Alfa Romeo 8C around a track in 1931. Simon Arron and Tony Dodgins have identified the 100 most significant changes to the series since its inception in 1950.

There will be more sprint races – trialled in 2021 – and greater fan interest driven by Netflix’s hugely successful ‘Drive to Survive’ series. I can't imagine the time it must've taken to source decades of images and rescan film to get the kind of resolution found in this book. Formula One is unrecognizable from its debut season, where drivers raced around on old bomber training aerodrome in Northamptonshire with oil drums to mark the corners and straw bales the only concession to safety.Anyway, why is f1 the pinnacle of Motorsport when for example 24h of Le Mans or the Nürnbergring is much more demanding for drivers and machines? Along with changes to circuits and the technology of the cars, this book highlights the commercial changes and the controversies that threatened to split the sport apart – such as the threat of breakaway series proposed at various times by teams. In 2020 we not only celebrated our 20th birthday but our 1st birthday as being completely employee owned after becoming an E. Heavy for its size, tightly bound, attractively dustjacketed and with its 240 glossy pages filled with crisp, stunningly sharp photos and right-sized text, the volume exudes quality, even to that wonderful “new book” smell. In 2016 Liberty Media took over the running of F1 and purchased GP2, then rebranded it as Formula 2 in 2017.

Although there are many cases of drivers/riders of one form of motorsport crossing over to other forms, successfully too, but they are such different genres within 'motorsport' that the question could easily be "Is football still the pinnacle of ball-sports. He is the editor of the renowned Autocourse yearbook, which has been published since the World Championship began in 1950. Originally from Altrincham, Simon Arron grew up near Oulton Park, writing and photographing club races for the local newspaper and subsequently Motoring News, until he was taken on as a full-time reporter in 1982. So much of from 1950 to 2000 is very poorly covered the author obviously having no interest or knowledge of that period.

Compiled and written by the excellent Simon Arron (please hurry up with the Formula 3000 book the world needs) and Tony Dodgins, ‘F1: The Pinnacle’ is structured around pivotal events throughout F1’s history each largely captured through a lushly illustrated double-page spread and some well-chosen text. Even in the years of 1950 and 1951, the sport was dominated by the Alfa 158, a relic from a time when Mercedes and Auto Union were supreme.

A must-read for completists or for those new to the sport, F1: The Pinnacle is a fascinating insight into one of the most exciting and dangerous sports in the world. Guenther Steiner is a motorsport engineer and team manager who is the current team principal of the Haas Formula One Team, and the previous managing director of Jaguar Racing and technical operations director of its subsequent incarnation, Red Bull Racing. A must-read for completists or for those new to the sport, F1: The Pinnacle is a fascinating insight into one of the most exciting and dangerous sports in the world. Simon Arron and Tony Dodgins have identified the 100 most significant changes to the series since its inception in 1950. Working with a number of different suppliers allows us to explore other avenues such as puzzles, sheet music and even stationery so we really do have something for everyone.

I found it to be the kind of book that you can put into the hands of someone who's never heard of Formula 1 or someone who watches every race and both would find something interesting or learn something new. This is just a throwaway reference in a photo caption here but it manifests that the book doesn’t just wend its way from headline event to headline event as if nothing noteworthy happened in between but that the authors find ways to impart tidbits that in and of themselves may seem peripheral but really are emblematic of bigger stories. He has edited several publications, including Motor Sport, Motoring News and the long-running motorsport yearbook, Autocourse. They do not get into many of the details and it is more of a summary of major things than anything else.

Technical changes aimed at levelling the playing field for the teams combined with the sport’s tightening budget cap will make the races closer than ever. With its topics structured in the form of two-to-four-page vignettes with easy-to-read, relevant text, and amazing, full-color, well-captioned photos, many of them full- or two-page spreads, “Formula 1” gives the reader the historical, technical, personal and commercial story of the sport in bite-sized pieces that, in toto, amount to as good an overall treatment of the subject as I’ve seen. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. If you see the discipline with the fastest cars around a track as being the pinnacle, then there were several points in its history where F1 was not the pinnacle, as posted before.The chapters start with a synopsis of the sport, then the circuits, the technical aspects, controversies, safety, the hall of famers in the sport, and lastly the commercial side.