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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Motor sports
This instalment in Evro’s decade-by-decade series covering all Formula
1 cars and teams is devoted to a period when some normality seemed to
return after the ground-effect and turbo excesses of the 1980s, except
for one terrible weekend in the spring of 1994. The tragic deaths of
Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna led to immense change with new
emphasis on safety, including measures to slow down the cars and
improve their structural strength, and numerous changes to circuits. In
many ways Formula 1 became more as we recognise it today, especially as
the decade’s dominant teams, McLaren and Williams, remain familiar.
Besides the winning cars, there is always much fascination for fans in
unsuccessful and obscure efforts, such as Andrea Moda and Venturi, and
this authoritative and comprehensively illustrated book covers them all.
The first generation of Sunbeam Alpine was produced in 1953-54 and
was named after the prestigious Alpine Rally which ran through the
mountains of France and Italy. The name was resurrected in 1959 for
a new model, the principle subject of this book. It was launched in
July of that year on the French Riviera and remained in production
until 1968. The Alpine was used in racing and rallying in many
places including Britain, continental Europe, the United States and
Canada. In this book, author John Willshire looks at the history of
the Sunbeam Alpine, its development and production history, the
different variants produced and its use as a rally and race car as
well as advising those who want to own and operate their own Alpine
today. The first book dedicated to the history of the Sunbeam
Alpine alone for more than twenty years, this is the first book on
the subject with such a wide range of historic and modern
photographs.
You can run to the sun, but can you ever hide? From the bestselling
author of Villa of Sun and Secrets.Monte Carlo means different
things to different people; for some it's a billionaires
playground, overflowing with glitz and glamour but for others it's
where dangerous secrets lay hidden. For Nanette Weston, and her
then fiance, F1 racing driver Zac Ewart, their dream life came to
an abrupt halt 3 years ago following a car accident which Zac
walked away from, but left Nanette being airlifted back to the UK,
never to return and never to see her fiance again. Monte Carlo was
a place she wanted to forget, not revisit. But when her friend and
employer, Vanessa asks Nanette to look after her children in the
Principality for a few months, Nanette knew she had no choice but
to return. As the F1 circus once again comes to town, with Zac in
pole position, mistakes of the past, leave legacies for the
future... This book was previously published as Follow Your Star by
Jennifer Bohnet. What readers are saying about One Summer in Monte
Carlo: 'As always with Jennifers books I was able to escape into a
completely different world, one we can only dream about.' 'I could
imagine myself as the main female character and could hardly put
down the book.' 'A superb fast-paced read with a real surprise and
absolutely loved the F1 glamour of Monaco - I really felt I was
there!' 'Such a roller coaster ride of people's lives. Tragic, sad,
happy tumultuous feelings of life in the fast lane.'
You can run to the sun, but can you ever hide? From the bestselling
author of Villa of Sun and Secrets.Monte Carlo means different
things to different people; for some it's a billionaires
playground, overflowing with glitz and glamour but for others it's
where dangerous secrets lay hidden. For Nanette Weston, and her
then fiance, F1 racing driver Zac Ewart, their dream life came to
an abrupt halt 3 years ago following a car accident which Zac
walked away from, but left Nanette being airlifted back to the UK,
never to return and never to see her fiance again. Monte Carlo was
a place she wanted to forget, not revisit. But when her friend and
employer, Vanessa asks Nanette to look after her children in the
Principality for a few months, Nanette knew she had no choice but
to return. As the F1 circus once again comes to town, with Zac in
pole position, mistakes of the past, leave legacies for the
future... This book was previously published as Follow Your Star by
Jennifer Bohnet. What readers are saying about One Summer in Monte
Carlo: 'As always with Jennifers books I was able to escape into a
completely different world, one we can only dream about.' 'I could
imagine myself as the main female character and could hardly put
down the book.' 'A superb fast-paced read with a real surprise and
absolutely loved the F1 glamour of Monaco - I really felt I was
there!' 'Such a roller coaster ride of people's lives. Tragic, sad,
happy tumultuous feelings of life in the fast lane.'
Six victories, two pole positions, eight fastest laps and 13 podium
places - statistics that are anything but striking. In Formula 1
today, there are drivers who have won a great deal more, but Gilles
Villeneuve cannot be evaluated by numbers alone - simply because
there is no way of measuring the level of excitement that he
brought to racing. Even though he has been dead for over 30 years,
the legend of the Canadian, who was killed on 8 May 1982, is still
imbued with strong emotion - Gilles the "Aviator" as Enzo Ferrari
nick-named him, the driver for whom the expression "Villeneuve
Fever" was coined. From his "crazy flight" at Fuji in 1977, his
first GP win at home in Canada in 1978, the unforgettable 1979
season followed by a year of purgatory, his epic success at Monaco
in 1981 and the in-house duel with Didier Pironi at Imola in 1982,
to that last "crazy flight" at Zolder. "Gilles Villeneuve: Immagini
di una vita/A life in pictures" relives the legend, with previously
unpublished pictures and authoritative text by Mario Donnini.
Great photographer Manrico Martella covers in this book the entire
history of world rallying through his lens, from the early `70s to
today. "What are rallies to me? They are over 40 years of life
throughout the world, 40 years of joy, pain, emotions, human
contact, but above all they comprise a long period of time of
constant research for the right shot, one where newspapers had to
make them the lead story or illustrate a centre page double spread.
That picture has always touched on the difficult task of
catapulting the reader right into the heart of Kenya and its sand
and unlimited sky: in the midst of Sweden's ice or through the damp
British forests. This has always been the main objective of my
search, to live the atmosphere of a location, the pathos of a
moment and the excitement of being there, all encapsulated in one
shot. It is also for that reason that rally cars are never the key
protagonists of my images, but rather one of the various elements
that compose those rallying panoramas comprising people, villages,
woods, mountains or the sea - whatever - all indisputable
protagonists equal to the cars and their drivers". Those are the
words of of this extraordinary photographic artist: the most
fabulous and victorious cars and the greatest drivers never got
away from his eye. The text is by Emanuele Sanfront, sports
journalist, `60s and `70s driver and navigator.
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