Formula 1 Fanatic

Formula 1 Fanaticis a passionate and evocative history of the ultimate in motor racing from the early 1970s to the present. Vergeer cleverly interweaves the lives and deaths of such legendary drivers as Jochen Rindt, Ronnie Peterson, Gilles Villeneuve, and Ayrton Senna with the progress of his boyhood obsession. His accounts of the titanic fights between the top driverslike the "professor" Alain Prost and the "son of God" Senna, or Damon Hill and Michael Schumacherare only matched by the even more ferocious rivalry between the top teams. For anyone enthralled by motor racing,Formula 1 Fanaticis a feast of recognition and nostalgia. For those who know nothing about Formula 1, it explains a mystery.