By Jonathan Noble

At one point, the publication is an efficient simple precis of F1 racing -- the vehicles, historical past, tracks, groups and drivers, tips about attending a race, and a few of the ideas concerned. in case you are a F1 junkie like i'm, its all good.

More objectively although, the booklet is dated... with information present as much as approximately 2003/04, that's many respects is historical historical past for F1 (new diversified replaced teams/drivers/tracks/rules now), so if i used to be simply moving into F1 as a viewer, this ebook will be rather complicated for the reason that rather a lot of the information is old-fashioned.

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At one point, the e-book is an effective simple precis of F1 racing -- the vehicles, historical past, tracks, groups and drivers, pointers on attending a race, and a few of the innovations concerned. if you are a F1 junkie like i'm, its all good.

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In fact, it’s why modern team bosses have to be as good at attracting sponsorship and business backing as they are at running racing cars. The huge prizes for success in Formula One, which include the prospect of earning millions of pounds in extra sponsorship backing or television rights money, mean that team bosses also have to deal with an incredible amount of politics within the sport. There are often arguments revolving around money, the changing of rules and even the threat of protests against rival teams.

And covered in exactly the same logos. This costs HOW much?! It is hard to imagine that less than 20 years ago a team could happily compete in Formula One for an entire season, and be successful, for a few million pounds. Nowadays, however, that is the cost it takes to compete in just one race. Massive advances in technology, the growing cost of hiring staff, and the incredible number of people needed to help prepare two cars (some teams now employ more than 600 people) has seen costs escalate beyond control.

If illogical and inconsistent labelling bugs you, motor racing is not for you. NASCAR and Touring Car racing Non-formula, road car-based racing spawned NASCAR in America and Touring Car racing in the rest of the world. Both are for cars that from the outside look like showroom roadgoing models but which underneath the skin are very different. NASCAR tailors for American production models and races mainly – though not exclusively – on ovals. Touring cars are based on European or Australian road cars and, like F1 cars, race on road racing or street tracks.

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