Monaco: Inside F1's Greatest Race
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Celebrating the romance of F1 and motor racing, this definitive book about the Monaco Grand Prix tells the story of the world' most famous race through the people who know it best - the drivers. Featuring some of F1's biggest stars, including Bernie Ecclestone, Nico Rosberg, Damon Hill, Ross Brawn (Schumacher's old team boss who won the race with him), David Coulthard, as well as members of McLaren and Ferrari, Folley's book captures Monaco's, present and past, with a special focus on its most extraordinary race in 1996, when only three cars finished. An astonishing afternoon of high drama, in wet conditions, saw multiple accidents and mechanical failures eliminated favourites such as Michael Schumacher, Damon Hill, Jacques Villeneuve, Jean Alesi and Eddie Irvine. No Formula One race before, or since, has had fewer cars complete a grand prix and this in an era when 22 cars started. A plucky Frenchman, Olivier Panis won, and British drivers David Coulthard and Johnny Herbert finished behind him.
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Knjigo sem dobil kot darilo. Več ali manj premišljeno, vsekakor pa na temo, ki mi je ljuba. Nekaj let je stala na polici v družbi drugih knjig, ki čakajo na svojo vrsto in preskakovale so jo druge knjige na isto temo, ki so mi prišle pod roke.
Ni me dovolj zamikala, da bi jo prijel v roke, ker sem nekoliko jezen na Monaco, kot marsikateri drug navdušenec na F1, ker Monaco navadno ne prinaša zanimivih dirk. Res, tu in tam se zgodi kakšna nenavadna stvar, pogosto se kdo zapiči v ograje, ki ne odpuščajo, ampak v primerjavi z drugimi dirkami na koledarju so dirke v kneževini DOLGOČASNE. Menda so nepozabne - če si na prizorišču. Ampak o tem scenariju povprečni navijači niti razmišljati ne upamo.
Knjigo je napisal, kot je v navadi v (tem) športu, novinar. Navadno to pomeni precej dolgočasno mešanico povzetkov zgodovine in razmetanih intervjujev. V Monacu pa je Malcolm uspel preseči ta stereotip in je spletel zanimivo in koherentno zgodbo, ki v več plasteh razkriva zakaj Monaco enostavno MORA OSTATI na sporedu dirk najhitrejšega športa na svetu.
Ko prebiraš zgodovino in ti dober pisec pričara romantiko nekih drugih, bolj nevarnih in razuzdanih časov, potem lahko ceniš kakšen izziv pomeni Monaco (bolje, kakšen izziv je tisti en dober kvalifikacijski krog) za dirkače, ekipe, sponzorje, TV ekipe in nazadnje za novinarje in zgodovinarje.
