F1 books

[Anni]

I am searching for good, worthy to read F1 related books. Does someone have any recommendations for me?
I don´t care if it´s something about F1 history, or a drivers biographie or some other stuff.

Just finished Sid Watkins´"Beyond the limit". Was very interesting and worthy a read.

[SanderV]

Interesting thread. First F1 related book I read was a book by Kees van de Grint, a Dutch Bridgestone engineer who worked very closely with Schumacher in his Ferrari years. Very interesting but unfortunately for you it's in Dutch ;-)

Can't recommend you a book yet but here are some books I'm considering to buy and read: Flat out, flat broke by Perry McCarthy, the book about Michael Schumacher by Christopher Hilton and the books by F1 doctor Sid Watkins.

[racingbradley]

I only have Eddie Irvine books because I was such a big fan.
The Luck of the Irish by Adam Cooper---about Eddie's early years and the struggle of a driver with no financial backing to make it in motorsport
Green races red by Eddie Irvine and Maurice Hamilton---his early years at Ferrari.
Life in the fast lane by Eddie Irvine and Jane Nottage---his fight for the championship in 1999. a bit tear jerking.
These books all have a motor racing theme but they are also full of humour-------------like their subject.
Also
Schumacher The official inside story of the Formula Icon words by Sabine Kehm.
Don't know if that is any help to you.

[vcs316]

Michael Schumacher: The Rise of a Genius by Luc Domenjoz, Jean Todt

This book sums up his career until the 2006 season.

[mad_ani]

Driven to win--the biography of Nigel Mansell is a good one
Michael schumacher--driven to the extremes/the whole story by James Allen are quite good reads

[Suzie]

The Gilles Villeneuve book by Gerald Donaldson.

[LAROSA SpA]

I've always loved the technical analysis books by Giorgio Piola (but only if your intrested in the technical side :-) )

[Meiga]

One of the books that I love (but then I am an old-fashioned romantic :oops) is "Forza Minardi!", by Simon Vigar (Veloce Publishing Limited, 2008). I am now searching for other two books of the same editorial: "BRM - A mechanic's tale" and "Motor Racing - Reflections of a lost era" (about racing in the 50s-70s). By the way, if anyone has read any of these two and can give his/her opinion on them I would love to hear it. :-)

[racingbradley]

). I am now searching for other two books of the same editorial: "BRM - A mechanic's tale" and "Motor Racing - Reflections of a lost era" (about racing in the 50s-70s). :-)

Boh books are available on http://www.amazon.co.uk/
They will be in English if that's ok.

[Anni]

Thanks for all the suggestions!

I love the book "Die wilden Jahre der Formel 1" by Helmut Zwickl. It´s written in German, but it´s a nice read about the past decades in F1.

[Meiga]

Boh books are available on http://www.amazon.co.uk/
They will be in English if that's ok.

Thank you and yes, English is fine :-) If I cannot find them I will try Amazon - although I will insist a bit with the bookstore first, because I confess that for me half of the pleasure of buying a book comes from the opportunity to browse through the shelfs... Of course it always turns up to be more expensive, because I go looking for one book and end up with three! ;-)

[Meiga]

Thanks for all the suggestions!

I love the book "Die wilden Jahre der Formel 1" by Helmut Zwickl. It´s written in German, but it´s a nice read about the past decades in F1.

I will try the Sid Watkins one you just finished, it sounds quite interesting.