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Post by robmarsh on Oct 25, 2018 14:15:44 GMT
Ok thanks Charles, I never knew about that book, will need to take a look. I thought maybe it was Frank Williams and I though some of the books on Frank Williams have been good I wouldn't say they were in the peach category. I am planning of getting an e book version on the Kimster.
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Post by charleselan on Oct 25, 2018 15:16:40 GMT
Ok thanks Charles, I never knew about that book, will need to take a look. I thought maybe it was Frank Williams and I though some of the books on Frank Williams have been good I wouldn't say they were in the peach category. I am planning of getting an e book version on the Kimster. A pretty poor review of the latter on the MS Forum, Rob. Not the book but the review was poor; extremely shallow and quite frankly pointless, Simon Aaron can do much better.
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Post by robmarsh on Oct 25, 2018 18:02:28 GMT
Ok thanks Charles, I never knew about that book, will need to take a look. I thought maybe it was Frank Williams and I though some of the books on Frank Williams have been good I wouldn't say they were in the peach category. I am planning of getting an e book version on the Kimster. A pretty poor review of the latter on the MS Forum, Rob. Not the book but the review was poor; extremely shallow and quite frankly pointless, Simon Aaron can do much better. Yep I saw that, terrible review. I was listening to a brilliant podcast on the official F1 site with Nico Rosberg and the interviewer mentioned Kimi's book and how good it was. I have downloaded a sample on kindle so will have a look. The interview with Nico was a really good 1 hour spent. He is a very well put together man and obviously very intelligent. The lengths he went to and the attention to detail that the drivers and the teams get to these days is staggering. I am sure if this was put in the public domain more often the interest in F1 would rise again. You really have to be on top of your game to win nowadays so despite how it may look to us sitting on the sidelines, a Grand Prix win still takes an incredible effort and everything must be perfect in relation to the other competitors to win. F1 is going up another blind alley with pay to view TV. They cannot just preach to the choir if they want the interest in F1 to grow.
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Post by chrisb on Oct 26, 2018 7:02:35 GMT
hear hear Rob, I was always a Nico fan, as I was his Dad, I just felt Nico was just so professional and worthy of more than one WDC and as it transpires a lot quicker than some TV 'personalities' led us to believe,
The only modern F1 driver I have the remotest interest in buying a book on is Kimi, so good to hear that Simon's poor review and I do like Simon's work is not as it others see it.
I am watching the 'no spoiler' on MotoGP as I write [multi-tasking? gosh...] and it's brilliant, via Dorna and ok I pay for it [around 5Euro's a week] but quite frankly I think it is worth it, however, F1 offers no such thing in the UK and even if they did would I be willing to part with 300Euros a year to watch it? no.
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Post by chrisb on Oct 28, 2018 10:23:43 GMT
Jenks's book is brilliant and reminds me - like / dislike him, agree/ disagree with him, he was one helluva writer - a book definitely worthy of any collection, and as the outside temperature is 3degrees there'll be no motorbike riding today, I wonder if a few of Jenks's old continental notes may get dusted down..
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Post by chrisb on Nov 12, 2018 17:28:50 GMT
whilst not directly about Jenks I was encouraged by something Jenks said about BRM to get another perspective so bought and have read "BRM a mechanics tale" by Dick Salmon, who worked at Bourne from around 1950 to 1967 and provides some insight as to what actually went on from the wild V16 to the insane but gorgeous H16, not complimentary about Big [with a small b] Lou but polite and deferential about others, but the number of 'mishaps' were legend as were the camaraderie between teams and drivers, a nice book and certainly glad I bought it.
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Post by charleselan on Nov 12, 2018 20:23:44 GMT
whilst not directly about Jenks I was encouraged by something Jenks said about BRM to get another perspective so bought and have read "BRM a mechanics tale" by Dick Salmon, who worked at Bourne from around 1950 to 1967 and provides some insight as to what actually went on from the wild V16 to the insane but gorgeous H16, not complimentary about Big [with a small b] Lou but polite and deferential about others, but the number of 'mishaps' were legend as were the camaraderie between teams and drivers, a nice book and certainly glad I bought it. It sounds like a very good find, those sort of books are always enlightening to read as one usually gets a different perspective on matters. Also great respect and appreciation to René for the stunning banner to this section, so fitting and beautiful.
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Post by chrisb on Nov 13, 2018 7:43:10 GMT
has anyone read Tony Rudd's book? "it was fun"
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Post by robmarsh on Nov 14, 2018 7:21:15 GMT
has anyone read Tony Rudd's book? "it was fun" I have Chris. It is excellent and will be a book that I will always keep. Well worth getting.
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Post by Jamie on Nov 14, 2018 18:11:07 GMT
has anyone read Tony Rudd's book? "it was fun" Brilliant book Chris, one of my favourites and right up your street I would imagine 👍 Welcome to borrow my copy if you so wish.
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Post by chrisb on Nov 15, 2018 8:26:27 GMT
thanks Jamie, I may well take you up on that if I may -
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Post by Jamie on Nov 15, 2018 8:48:38 GMT
thanks Jamie, I may well take you up on that if I may - No problem at all. I can pop it in the post or bring it with me to Stoneleigh?
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Post by chrisb on Nov 15, 2018 22:26:57 GMT
cheers Jamie, Stoneleigh sounds good - thanks mate - appreciate that
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