The Ultimate Encyclopedia Of Formula One

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.

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.

Formula One Racing is motorsport at its highest level. Combining technological brilliance with glamor and extreme danger, it is the stuff of dreams and legend. The engineering may have become more advanced over the years, and demands on the teams more intense, but the attraction of Formula One remains what it always was: man and machine in the ultimate test of skill, speed and guts. The Unofficial Complete Encyclopedia of Formula One is the definitive guide to Formula On racing. Starting with how it all began, the book traces the story of the world's richest and most powerful sport back to the first true car race in 1895, and apans the landmark events from the inauguration of the World Drivers' Championship in 1950, right up to the 2005 season. Special features on the movers and shakers and construction developments through the eras give a snapshot view of progress as it happened. Next, in a line-up of the legendary teams and drivers we profile the talents and personalities whose influence on the sport has made it so addictive to its worldwide audience. There are profiles, too, of the Grand Prix circuits - scenes of triumph and tragedy, which are imbued with an aura unlike anything else in the sporting world. Finally, a statistical round-up records the fastest and the greatest over six decades of the sport. Written by one of Formula One's top writers, and illustrated on every page with color photographs and original archive material, The Unofficial Complete Encyclopedia of Formula One is the ultimate reference guide to Grand Prix racing. Book jacket.

The Complete Encyclopedia of Forumla One is the world''s most comprehensive, single-voluume illustrated w ork of Formula One reference, covering the highest echelon o f motor sport from every angle. '

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.