GRAND PRIX'S WINNING COLOURS

A visual history of 70 years of the Formula 1 World Championship, Mick Hill's colourful book is packed with his signature artwork, and skilfully showcases the cars, drivers and designers that have contributed to the history of Formula 1. Beginning with the flags for hosting countries, it shows every winning car with details of races won plus drivers' helmets, from historic leather caps to modern carbon fibre. Add to this the world championship stickers from teams and sponsors, a memento for fans of the race meetings they attended. During his career, Mick Hill has been involved in technical illustration for Ford Motor Company, Honda, Mazda and Toyota and worked with F1 teams such as McLaren, Lotus, Williams, Jordan and Midland F1, producing a wide variety of illustrations from cutaways to exploded views that have appeared in many motoring publications worldwide. Here are page after page of glorious colour images on glossy white paper organised chronologically from a stunning bright red 1950 Alfa Romeo 158 designed by Giuseppe Farina which firmly put F1 on the map of great sports. Here is an era of bravery, sportsmanship and immense skill with drivers battling it out wheel to wheel in front-engined cars with no seatbelts or roll bars. They drove inches from death on tracks with no safety barriers. Super charts show for example the 1950-59 seasons race by race and how each country performed, and a magnificent gallery continues with the best of the best with drivers like Britain's Jim Clark in his 1964 Lotus 25, Graham Hill in the 1968 Lotus 49 Goldleaf, René Arnoux in his 1983 Ferrari 126C3 right through to Max Verstappen in the 2019 Red Bull RB15 and hundreds more up to 2020. Beautifully designed, a one-of-a-kind book. 192 pages, 21 x 26.5cm and one for every fan.