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just technical enough
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Fantastic, highly recommend
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The Mechanic
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Great insight.
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Total Competition is the most compelling, comprehensive and revealing insight into what it takes to get to the top in Formula One that has ever been published. Across four decades, Ross Brawn was one of the most innovative and successful technical directors and then team principals in Formula One. Leading Benetton, Ferrari, Honda, Brawn and Mercedes, he worked with drivers such as Michael Schumacher, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton to make them world champions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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great insight
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- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Sir Jackie Stewart is a man of immense charisma and integrity and is one of the most highly regarded names in global sport: winner of three F1 World Championships, 27 Grands Prix, and ranked in the top five drivers of all time. On retiring from the circuit, he went on to build an equally impressive international business career. In the 1960s and into the 70s, with his black cap, sideburns, and aviator shades, Jackie Stewart was an unmistakable icon in a glorious era of style, glamour, and speed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Chariot Makers: The Definitive Text
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- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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5 out of 5 stars
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just technical enough
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Rush to Glory
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- By: Tom Rubython
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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The greatest duel in Formula 1 history: the 1976 season between Austrian Niki Lauda and Britain's James Hunt. As the '75 season ended, Hunt was out of Formula One racing while Lauda was world champion and the odds-on favorite for '76 with a year's contract ahead of him and Enzo Ferrari begging him to sign a multi-year deal. James Hunt, without a drive until Emerson Fittipaldi broke his McLaren contract, grabbed the McLaren drive with both hands and the help of friend John Hogan. The result? Two drivers in an epic 16-race battle across the globe for the '76 title, ultimately decided by a single point.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic, highly recommend
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The Mechanic
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- By: Marc 'Elvis' Priestley
- Narrated by: Marc 'Elvis' Priestley
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 18
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great gift!
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Total Competition
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Total Competition is the most compelling, comprehensive and revealing insight into what it takes to get to the top in Formula One that has ever been published. Across four decades, Ross Brawn was one of the most innovative and successful technical directors and then team principals in Formula One. Leading Benetton, Ferrari, Honda, Brawn and Mercedes, he worked with drivers such as Michael Schumacher, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton to make them world champions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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great insight
- By Marsha on 08-20-17
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The Mechanic's Tale
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- By: Steve Matchett
- Narrated by: Steve Matchett
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
Formula One Grand Prix mechanic Steve Matchett takes the listener on a compelling journey through his life in the pit-lane, from his beginnings as a young apprentice through his time at Ferrari and BMW to his later success with Benetton. He gives eye-witness views of the great drivers, including Michael Schumacher, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, and Ayrton Senna. He also talks of key Benetton personalities and explains how the team was transformed into a strong, competitive organization, winning three World Championships.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Life outside the Pit-Lanes
- By MarkK on 05-14-19
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Life in the Fast Lane
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- By: Steve Matchett
- Narrated by: Steve Matchett
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 94
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Story5 out of 5 stars 94
Over the past two decades, Life in the Fast Lane has grown to become a true staple of Formula 1 literature. In essence a monthly diary of a Benetton grand prix mechanic, this essential book gives a behind-the-scenes account of daily life in the trenches of F1 during the tragic and turbulent 1994 season.
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an f1 fan must read
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Car Fever
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As well as writing about his first love, cars, James has a go at political correctness, the endless rules and regulations of daily life, the internal combustion engine and traffic wardens. He discusses gastropubs, Jeremy Clarkson, and other trials of modern life. His highly entertaining observations from behind the wheel will have you laughing out loud, whether you share his opinions or not.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Clever and easy plain talk by James
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And on That Bombshell
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For 13 years, 22 series and 175 shows, Richard Porter was script editor of Top Gear, from the first faltering pilot episode in 2002 until the very last show presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May in 2015. Along the way they destroyed cars, sparked diplomatic incidents, set fire to caravans, almost killed one of the presenters, and somehow transformed Top Gear from a shabby BBC Two motoring show into an Emmy-winning, record-breaking, planet-straddling behemoth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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For Top Gear enthusiasts!
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These Desired Things is a stimulating, philosophical offering; a tour de force in creative writing. Praised in review as "imagery and literature at its finest", defining this book's genre seems largely superfluous - for its immersive, lyrical text is part fiction, part memoir, part autobiography. The chapters are presented as a collection of 11 short stories: all of them varying in their individual plots, their settings and their style, yet all of them remain essential elements of the whole; for running through each is a series of subtle, uniting threads.
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By the early 1960s, Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Baby boomers were taking to the roads in droves, looking for speed not safety, style not comfort, and Ford didn’t offer what these young drivers wanted. Meanwhile, Enzo Ferrari lorded over the European racing scene, crafting beautiful, fast sports cars that epitomized style.
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Publisher's Summary
The lure of the road has long been a dangerous drug, copiously laced with promises of triumph and disaster. This is the story of those who could not resist the cocktail and the machines that provided their fix. Formula 1 began in 1950, and each season is detailed with gripping descriptions of stunning achievement and sadness. Including the emergence of Mercedes as an F1 force and Lewis Hamilton's return to the top of the standings, this is the history of Grand Prix.
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