Too fast a life
Shepherd, Martin2015
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Mike Hawthorn, Britain's first world motor racing champion, was internationally famous by the time of his death. The dashing young Englishman had just won an epic battle for the title against Stirling Moss in a classic last race duel. However, back in the 1950s, Formula 1 was a quasi-amateur sport, in which prizes were modest, the risk of death unimaginably high and where there was scant reporting of the drivers' off-track activities. Mike's penchant for fast driving was matched by an appetite for pretty girls, beer, aeroplanes and practical jokes - all of which got him into many scrapes. What usually got him out was his charm. This re-telling of Mike's story paints an unbiased picture of a troubled young man, focusing more on feelings than feeler-gauges, and questions whether his life could have ended differently.
Main title:
Too fast a life / Martin Shepherd.
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Imprint:
Bristol : SilverWood Books, 2015.Bristol : SilverWood Books, 2015.
Collation:
360 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781781323199 (pbk)
Dewey class:
920 HAW
Language:
English
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BRN:
1541084