Good Book?

[two40]

anyone read a good biography of some racecar driver? any recommendations?

cheers

[Duncan]

I've got 2 suggestions to stay away from....

Mark Skaife - Diary of a wanker - boring, poorly written crap

Enzo Ferrari by Richard Williams - wasn't as bad, but like most books about Enzo its written as tho he is some kind of god....

[two40]

phew, thanks dundan. nearly bought skaife's diary last night.

[2rismo]

I'll send ya a copy or twelve of skaife's. Can't give em away...

ROFL!

That's probably not true as there's HRT wanks everywhere....

Adrian

[Duncan]

I think you've hit the nail on the head there, and that's what pissed me off most about the book. They figure that anything they skaife or HSV on will sell like crazy. How arrogant.

[Bleach1]

Skaife is a dead set wanker. One typical example was when i was at a v8 superstars a year or so ago. A person asked skaife a question from the crowd about some race skaife did overseas. This was around the time his book had been released. His reply was "Its all in the book, plenty of shops sell it". Im sure if you asked Peter Brock a similar question he would probably go into little details of the track and race and so on. Not a stupid answer like Skaife gave. His only redeming factor is he used to race a GTR.

[Rezz]

Originally posted by Bleach1

Skaife: "Its all in the book, plenty of shops sell it"

Spoken like a true Aussie-with-an-inflated-ego.

Jim Richards should bitchslap him and skool his ass on how not to be a wanker.

[two40]

anyone?

[chaos]

try something like about arton senner, or brocky or dick johnson im sure they'd be slighty more interesting than skaife. longer careers aswell

[Duncan]

I also read Dick Johnson's book, can't remember the name atm. It was better, interesting read about his early competition (in a holden lol)

[fatz]

penthouse... normally has some good car articles

just read one on a compariosn btw a porka and a motorbike (found it cleaning the house).... great read

nice pictures as well

[red900ss]

My book is coming out soon:

Track Day Hero - A hard core racer's diary of victory and bitter dissapointment.

With Foreword by Allan Prost.

Illustrations by Vargas.

The synopsis:

Be there following the racing endeavors of a track day hero.

Share the joy of "taking" a Falcodore on the inside at the infamous Turn 2 at Eastern Creek. Feel the dissapointment at finding out the work roster clashes with a drive day. Taste the anticipation as "..group D line up on the dummy grid, group D.." is announced on the PA. Smell the perspiration in the helmet as the final lap of 10 is completed.

A great read for this great racer's many fans around the globe. A must have for this years Christmas stocking.

[GraemeWi]

'The Rise and Fall of Peter Brock' by Bill Tuckey is a interesting read - it came out when he was in the middle of the bust up with Holden in '86 - '87. The author who wrote it seemed to have an axe to grind with Brock, but it is well written and interesting.

Second hand book shops only for this one!

Cheers,

G