(Part 2) Top products from r/formula1

Here's a link to the official F1 store Red Bull section: click

Go there and get into the Red Bull section to find all kinds of things. Most are high priced but there's something like a Mark Webber hat that costs under your price range.

Also check if he has the F1 2010 official video game that came out this past September. If he doesn't then find out what game system he has and get him F1 2010. It's made for all systems save for the Wii.
Here's a link to the Amazon page which is selling the console versions for only $40 US: click



Here's a good one we're all waiting for: click

It's the official season review for 2010 that ended just weeks ago. I would love to be surprised by something like this. It's coming out December 14th so it'll be out in time for Christmas.

Awesome shirt

And last but not least, my personal wish.
I'd love a subscription to F1 racing magazine. I'm in the US and it gets pricey and inconvenient to have to go to the bookstore to pick up the import priced copy every month, which comes in weeks later by the way.
It's hard to go wrong with this one. It's seen by most as the best, most interesting and worthy F1 editorial out there. I used to just buy it for the amazing photography, but now regularly enjoy reading through hall the stats and articles.
Click here for their page to get a subscription

Hope you can decide on something awesome for the person in question. Nice of you to ask around for them.

FIA stands for Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. Its basically an international association of automobile clubs, this includes organisations that organise and hold motorsport events.

Back in the 90s the EU ruled that the FIA could not hold the governing and commercial rights, so they sold the commercial rights to FOM. This is the set up that remains to this day. the FIA are responsible for holding the rule book and governance of those rules. FOM deal with the commercial side - they sell coverage to TV companies, give journalists access to the paddock etc. FOM also sign deals with promoters who wish to hold grand prix. FOM also have agreements with every team in F1 (called the Concorde agreement). The Concorde agreement covers the teams obligations (must compete in every race, must run 2 cars and so on) and the money that they receive from FOM for participating.

The Concorde agreement is secret - there is an awful lot of speculation about who gets what money, but few people actually know and are bound to secrecy. We do know that some teams receive extra money "just because". We also know the payment structure is based on the previous year's WCC standings and it is somewhat unbalanced - so if you win the WCC you get a whole bunch more money than the 10th placed team.

Bernie ? There has been much written about him. In short he's a maverick. Many years ago he owned the Brabham team, back then the commercial side of F1 didn't really exist - cars had sponsor stickers all over them but it wasn't really exploited. More than that, the whole commercial side was disorganised - teams would do deals to run in races directly with promoters. When there were flyaway races teams would book their shipping (of cars/equipment) individually. Bernie saw an opportunity, he started representing the teams - initially getting a bulk deal on transport to lower costs, then he began to represent the teams to negotiate deals. For the most part the teams were happy with this, at least initially - they were naive and far more interested in putting next year's car together than dealing with business people. When TV money started coming along they understood ! Which led to Ken Tyrrell rather angrily declaring that Bernie had stolen F1 from the teams. FOCA (the company that Bernie set up to represent the teams) became FOM. Bernie then eventually sells FOM to a number of investors - most notably CVC Capital Partners.

It should be noted that over the years Bernie has made the sport what it is today (good and bad). The commercialisation has bought huge amounts of money to the sort - F1 drivers are household names all over the world. Bernie made the sport more professional - previously teams would run in F1 for the odd race or two when they could afford it using old cars, sometimes with only one car.
Probably the biggest thing that Bernie did was improve safety and medical care. He employed Sid Watkins as the official F1 doctor. When promoters refused to let Sid inspect medical facilities Bernie threatened to cancel races if Sid wasn't allowed to inspect facilities or found things were not up to the required standard.
Sid was a wonderful chap and is very much missed, his book is worth a read - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Limit-Triumph-Tragedy-Formula/dp/0330351397/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=2KS044VRWQHPN89Z40TY and the follow up https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Limit-Sid-Watkins/dp/0330481967

Anyway, back to the money - CVC are capitalists. They buy something and later sell it to make money. In the case of FOM I believe the profit generated paid back about 50% of their purchase price of the years - then of course they sold it to Liberty Media. They've done pretty well out of it.
CVC's strategy was to leave Bernie in place - he knows everyone, he knows the business and his eye for a deal was (is?) pretty impressive. Basically as an employee of CVC his job was to make them as much money as possible - and thats what he did. This has attracted a lot of negative press for Bernie over the years. To some extent he & CVC were "chasing the money" -hence races in India, Korea and many other far flung destinations. You have to remember Bernie is 86 and basically, doesn't understand the internet, social media and all that stuff - this has also caused negative press.

When LM bought FOM and quietly moved Bernie aside many rejoiced because they saw Bernie as all F1's problem personified. Ultimately LM have purchased F1 to make money, so in some respects the rejoicing was maybe a little premature. Having said that, LM clearly have their own ideas on how to monetise F1 - its still early days, lets see what happens.

This question has been asked a bunch of times, but the one post I've found the most helpful was /u/that_video_art_guy's response in this post. For quick reference, here's the copy/paste:



I've read many of these books, I'm partial to the mechanics and team member books but find all of them to be very enjoyable.


The Super Collective Super list of Super Good F1 Books:

Mechanics/Team Members


[Life in the Pit Lane: Mechanic's Story of the Benetton Grand Prix Year](
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Pit-Lane-Mechanics-Benetton/dp/0760300267/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1356716346&sr=1-5&keywords=steve+matchett) - Steve Matchett

[The Mechanic's Tale: Life in the Pit-Lanes of Formula One](
http://www.amazon.com/Mechanics-Tale-Life-Pit-Lanes-Formula/dp/0752827839/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1356716346&sr=1-1&keywords=steve+matchett) - Steve Matchett

The Chariot Makers: Assembling the Perfect Formula 1 Car - Steve Matchett

Team Lotus: My View From the Pitwall - Peter Warr

Jo Ramirez: Memoirs of a Racing Man - Jo Ramirez

Art of War - Five Years in Formula One - Max Mosley, Adam Parr, Paul Tinker

Tales from the Toolbox: A Collection of Behind-the-Scenes Tales from Grand Prix Mechanics - Michael Oliver, Jackie Stewart


Technical Books

Red Bull Racing F1 Car: Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual

McLaren M23: 1973 Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual

Lotus 72: 1970 Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual

Tune to Win: The art and science of race car development and tuning - Carroll Smith

Engineer to Win - Carroll Smith

Nuts, Bolts, Fasteners and Plumbing Handbook AKA: Screw to Win - Carroll Smith

Race Car Vehicle Dynamics: Problems, Answers and Experiments - Doug Milliken

Chassis Design: Principles and Analysis - William F. Milliken, Douglas L. Milliken, Maurice Olley

The Racing & High-Performance Tire: Using Tires to Tune for Grip & Balance - Paul Haney


Technical Driving

Ultimate Speed Secrets: The Complete Guide to High-Performance and Race Driving - Ross Bentley

Going Faster! Mastering the Art of Race Driving - Carl Lopez

Working the Wheel - Martin Brundle


Drivers and Rivalry's

Senna Versus Prost: The Story of the Most Deadly Rivalry in Formula One - Malcolm Folley

The Limit: Life and Death on the 1961 Grand Prix Circuit - Michael Cannell

Winning Is Not Enough: The Autobiography - Sir Jackie Stewart

Shunt: The Story of James Hunt - Tom Rubython

Alex Zanardi: My Sweetest Victory: A Memoir of Racing Success, Adversity, and Courage - Alex Zanardi, Gianluca Gasparini, Mario Andretti.

It Is What It Is: The Autobiography - David Coulthard

Flat Out, Flat Broke: Formula 1 the Hard Way! - Perry McCarthy The Black Stig, Damon Hill

F1 Through the Eyes of Damon Hill: Inside the World of Formula 1 - Damon Hill, Photography: Sutton Images


People Of F1

Life at the Limit: Triumph and Tragedy in Formula One - Professor Sid Watkins

Beyond the Limit - Professor Sid Watkins

I Just Made The Tea: Tales from 30 years inside Formula 1 - Di Spires

Bernie: The Biography of Bernie Ecclestone - Susan Watkins


Picture Books

McLaren The Cars: Updated 2011 Edition

Art of the Formula 1 Race Car - Stuart Codling, James Mann, Peter Windsor, Gordon Murray

I really enjoy reading up on the experiences people had with Sid. I've been reading his book, 'Life on the Limit' and it's really brilliant if you would like a behind the scenes look at how Formula 1 operated during his tenure. There are some brilliant stories about some of the more prominent figures in Formula 1 including Bernie and Balestre. This sport has certainly had its fair share of characters that's for sure.

Anybody who likes Jenks should read his book "The Racing Driver". You could go all hardcore and try to look for a older print version, but the charm about it, as Jenks himself writes in the preface of this "current" edition is that "none of the basic concepts would change. They had not changed in the first 50 years of motor racing, so why should they have changed in the second 50 years".

In Amazon you'll see they recommend buying this book with "The technique of motor racing" by Taruffi, and that recommendation is spot on; Racing driver is anecdotal, the technique is the scientific approach by a man who was a engineer before he was a winning race car driver.

Slightly OT but personally, I also wanted the book by Taruffi because apparently his winning one of the original editions of the Carrera Panamericana was a huge deal in Mexico. My Grandmother, the wife of a coal mine worker in a poor town in Mexico with little interest in cars would chastise fast drivers by saying "Who does he think he is, Taruffi?".

http://orig01.deviantart.net/8867/f/2013/065/6/f/williams_fw16__san_marino_1994__by_f1_history-d5gs0e8.jpg

I think you're right about the seatbelt, it makes sense that by the time the car has been loaded the belts have been pushed backwards.

I think the elevated head position even when slumped paired with the race suit would have reduced bleeding until, as you say, he was placed on the ground while Sid did his best. It's some comfort to know that at least the bleeding wound from the suspension debris occurred after the base skull fracture so he wouldn't had suffered from the wound.

I highly recommend Sid Watkins book(s), it's a real eye opener into the sorts neurological injuries which were (and still are though less frequently thanks to Sid and others) commonplace in motorsport. Insights into drivers and the business of the sport too.

Edit; This one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00BQF6RBO/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481926025&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=sid+watkins

Try and get your hands on the 2010 and 2012 season reviews. Both amazing and thrilling seasons for which the drivers championship went down to the last race. And stick around this subreddit, you'll quickly pick up who's who and what's what.

Http://strassenversion.net . thats me! haha thanks very much. ill just jump in here and also give a shout out to pJ Tierney who re released his F1 posters.
http://pjtierney.net/#2323544/Formula-1-Print-Series


also I own a bunch of F1 books this one being my favorite: http://www.amazon.com/Formula-Camera-1980-89-Quentin-Spurring/dp/1844251098/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&qid=1322597995&sr=8-20


another book i am going to either get for myself or ask for is this concept work from Dan Simon http://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Motors-Spaceships-Another-English/dp/1933492279/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322598044&sr=1-1



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i have some new stuff coming out in a week or so if you want to wait to check that out. its going to be different from other stuff that i offer

I Just Made the Tea is a good non-technical book with many great behind-the-scenes anecdotes.

People should definitely give this book a read.

It has an amazing amount of insight to the design and even current day upkeep of the Lotus 72.

Yeah that's a tough one. Probably the only real resource that would be useful is Paul Haney's The Racing and High Performance Tire. https://www.amazon.com/Racing-High-Performance-Tire-Using-Balance/dp/0768012414

Most other resources only have tires as a small subsection of the book or are going to be way over your head and focus on mathematical modeling. There is also one other interesting source of info that Michelin produced. http://www.dimnp.unipi.it/guiggiani-m/Michelin_Tire_Grip.pdf

Grover-Williams wasn't the only multi-GP winning driver to be hunted down and killed by the Nazis. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Benoist

Joe Saward has a great book on the subject called The Grand Prix Saboteurs:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Grand-Prix-Saboteurs-Saward/dp/0955486807

Always a good opportunity to plug this incredible book which really goes into Surtees

https://smile.amazon.com/Go-Like-Hell-Ferrari-Battle/dp/0547336055

Huge question to answer. I suggest reading Total Competition: Lessons in Strategy from Formula One by Ross Brawn and Adam Parr. Funnily enough I ordered it a few hours ago.

Link

Why is this book so obscure and expensive? Why wasn't it republished? You can find only 3 copies on Amazon, starting from $230. (edit: since I wrote that, two more popped up, reaching from $70 to $1153)

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I guess it has to do with the Senna family. They were allegedly very strict in providing home videos for the Senna documentary, requiring that Ayrton be presented in a favorable way, which is one reason why the movie ended up being biased and one-sided.

To anyone interested in racing, the story of Ernst Degner's defection from the MZ moto GP team is probably the best motor racing story ever. It's got everything, friendship, betrayal, the cold war, international espionage. It's awesome. A book was written about it called Stealing Speed.

Classics like:

• Total Competition (Ross Brawns time at Ferrari working with Schumacher and his own team
  
• The Mechanic (Perpective from Mechanics life in F1, by mark presley)
  
• Aussie Grit (Mark Webbahs life in F1)
  
• How to Build a car (by a certain Adrian Newey)

He's written three books. If you liked whichever one it was that you've read, then I suggest you get the other two.

EDIT:

Brundle, EJ, and DC have all written books too.

Do you think that something like the F1 Technical Analysis or the Hayne's RB6-Rb10 Manual will have any of this stuff?

I just finished Stealing Speed all about his story, good light read if anyone is looking

One of the perks of using standard currency is having access to books like these

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lotus-1978-Onwards-Models-Ground-Effect/dp/1785210793/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=haynes+lotus+79&qid=1562945690&s=gateway&sr=8-1

Every racing fan should read his book.

You haven't really looked at all have you?

Art of the Formula 1 Race Car
http://amzn.com/0760337314

McLaren M23: 1973 onwards (all marks) (Owners' Workshop Manual)
http://amzn.com/0857333127

Lotus 72 Manual: An Insight Into Owning, Racing and Maintaining Lotus's Legendary Formula 1 Car (Owners' Workshop Manual)
http://amzn.com/0857331272

Red Bull Racing F 1 Car: An Insight into the Technology, Engineering, Maintenance and Operation of the World Championship-winning Red Bull Racing RB6 (Owners' Workshop Manual)
http://amzn.com/0857330993

The Golden Age of Formula 1
http://amzn.com/3832794360

Formula 1 in Camera 1950-59
http://amzn.com/1844255530

Formula 1 in Camera 1960-69
http://amzn.com/1844252183

Formula 1: The Roaring 70s (English, German, French, Spanish and Italian Edition)
http://amzn.com/3832795375

Formula 1 in Camera 1970-79
http://amzn.com/1859609600

Formula 1 in Camera 1970-79: Volume Two
http://amzn.com/0857330748

Formula 1 in Camera 1980-89
http://amzn.com/1844251098

Sid Wakins' Beyond The Limit is the only F1 book you need.

Haven't read it yet, but it's on my list: https://www.amazon.com/Go-Like-Hell-Ferrari-Battle/dp/0547336055

About Ford and Ferrari at Le Mans

The Racing Driver: The Theory and Practice of Fast Driving

https://www.amazon.com/Racing-Driver-Theory-Practice-Driving/dp/0837602017/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

To add to that, Grand Prix Saboteurs tells the story of Robert Benoist and a few of the other GP stars of the 20s/30s

Ayrton Senna's Principles of Race Driving

Here. Not at $10 anymore though. Theres also a few for other F1 cars for about $20-$40

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Lotus-1978-Onwards-Models-Ground-Effect/dp/1785210793/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=haynes+lotus+79&qid=1562945690&s=gateway&sr=8-1

As /u/retify posted above

You should check out Watching the Wheels, Damon Hill's autobiography.

And also Mark Webber's - Aussie Grit: My Formula One Journey

Martin Brundle - Working the Wheel.

I hate to link to amazon but here.

Everything from Spa to Monaco, Winning Le Mans, nearly beating Senna in F3, his huge crash in Melbourne 1996, commentating with Murray Walker, team-mates with Schumacher - Go buy it!

Short answer, no. You can't buy exactly what you are looking for.

It doesn't exist because Bernie is a dinosaur. He was against the introduction of HD for a while and he'd be against this. Your best bet is the season review DVD from FOM.

I think they have around 5 hours footage form the races but i could be wrong on that.

I bought this book, then moved across the planet and left it in storage :(

http://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Motors-Spaceships-Another-English/dp/1933492279

edit: added sad face