The Daily Telegraph Book of Formula One

This book contains news articles from 1950 to 2009 and I have really enjoyed reading it. Some of these news articles have heartbreaking news to tell but some of them can be very exciting like being world champion which for me would be a great achievement. Formula 1 started in 1950 and it is still present at this stage. Throughout the years, there has been many tragedy such as Ayrton Senna and Ronald Ratzenberger's death at Imola 1994 on May 1st. That is the latest death and the FIA (Federation International Automobile) have discussed the safety and the cars present on the grid in 2010 are much more safer than the cars back in the 80's and the 90's. I think we should be going on to the happy events now. In 2008 there was a title clash between Felipe Massa and Lewis Hamilton and going into the final race in Brazil, Massa was the title favourite to win on his home surface. In the middle of the race, it started to rain and everybody came in for wet tyres except for Timo Glock. Glock stayed out on drys to help Massa. In the end Massa won the race but all Hamilton needed was to finish 5th and he was 6th going into the last corner. Massa's family went wild until Glock made a huge error and Hamilton passed him with about 500 metres to go! Hamilton had won the title but to the disappointment of Massa's family and team, Massa went up to the podium crying and then e sobbed even more when the Brazlian National Anthem was played. Lewis Hamilton had beaten Felipe Massa by 1 point to be victorious in the 2008 FIA Formula 1 World Championship! Fortunately for Massa's team, Ferrari took home the Consrtuctors Championship so at least they had something to smile about.

This book was written by Martin Smith

I give this book a 9.4/10