Description
Author: Christopher Hilton, Hardbound, 398 Pages, H4709, ISBN: 9781844257096, First Edition, 2009
Formula 1 had its youngest and only mixed-race champion. It was, and will always be, an extraordinary moment.' Interlagos, Sao Paulo, 2 November 2008. Lewis Hamilton had just finished fifth in the Brazilian Grand Prix, enough to join the immortals after - fittingly - a genuinely immortal race when fate itself tormented him. Halfway round the final lap everything seemed lost. But it wasn't...
The World Championship began in 1950, since when, by definition, each season has reached a decisive race and from that has come the World Champion. These showdown races became a dynasty of dramatics but, as everybody agreed, nothing has ever been more charged with drama than Hamilton's last corners at Interlagos, rain falling from an angry sky and confusion everywhere.
The victory meant that the dynasty now embraced 30 champions. They came from 14 countries and five continents. They'd won their titles at 24 different circuits on every continent except Antarctica.
The dynasty embraced the moody, enigmatic Giuseppe Farina, who won the first title in a sport that was rudimentary and very, very dangerous. Early on it was graced by Juan Manuel Fangio - his five championships were thought to be impregnable until Michael Schumacher joined Ferrari.
It embraced the precision of Alain Prost, the mythology of Niki Lauda, the focus of James Hunt who - like Hamilton - rode a storm, the bravery of Nigel Mansell, the dignity of Damon Hill. It was haunted by the mysterious gifts of Jim Clark and Ayrton Senna...
In this fascinating book, completely updated from the 1992 first edition, you will meet all these men and many more, and you will relive the races which made them, like Hamilton, the immortals.
Christopher Hilton has written a number of best-selling Formula 1 books including biographies of Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna and James Hunt.
