Inside the Mind of the Racing Driver: What the Fastest Men on Earth Think

by Christopher Hilton

Book Overview

This book gets behind the PR-speak to explore what Grand Prix drivers really think and feel. They talk with rare frankness of their hopes and fears, how they began racing and what forces them to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859608337
• ISBN13: 9781859608333
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Haynes Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Revealing the grand prix driver

I found this book to be a truly unique look at the mindset of Formula 1 racing and drivers. Another reviewer criticized it for not concentrating more on the "top" drivers in the sport, as if they are the only ones whose point of view is important! I think the broad range of drivers covered is what makes this book really interesting and adds a great deal to it's appeal to those of us who can only dream of driving a Formula 1 car. All these drivers show their human side and thus become much easier to identify with. The only criticism I can make, and maybe it was just me, but I thought it was often hard to keep track of just who the author was quoting in any given interview. Too often he seemed to "jump around" and made it easy to lose track of who says what. However, that did not detract from what was being said and I found the book to be a most revealing look at what makes a Grand Prix driver "tick", whether he's world champion or one of the other of the worlds greatest race drivers (who just might not have had the chips fall his way). Any fan of Formula 1 will love it!!!

A simply must-read!

This is without doubt the most gripping, insightful and authoritative read about drivers in Formula One. Written around a series of intimate, unguarded and in-depth interviews with drivers it affords the reader a real insight into the experience of driving the world's most beautiful race cars. The chapter about accidents contains some of the most descriptive, articulate work, but one needs to read the rest of the book to get the most from it. Not since Jackie Stewart first began to articulate the reality of a driver's life has this subject been tackled in such depth or with such effect. Having followed Formula One passionately for many years this book took me to a new depth of understanding.