Lights Out, Full Throttle
Autor Damon Hill, Johnny Herberten Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 apr 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1529040035
Pagini: 338
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: PAN
Descriere
Lights Out, Full Throttle is the hilarious account of life in the F1 pit lane from two legends of the sport, Damon Hill and Johnny Herbert.Damon and Johnny here. Motorsport's answer to Ant and Dec, just a lot more comprehensible and, all in all, a wee bit taller. Between us we have about 100 years' experience of driving cars quickly and have competed in 261 Grand Prix spawning 25 wins, 49 podiums, one World Championship and 458 championship points. We even have a win at Le Mans to our names, as well as two smashed ankles, a broken arm, a broken wrist, a broken leg, about sixty broken ribs, a pierced upper thigh that missed Johnny's twig and berries by millimetres, and a bruised ego or three.Basically, we're two middle-aged men who are both what you might call physically compromised. That said, contrary to popular belief, we still have a modicum of bladder control and can talk Formula 1 with the best of them. Which brings us to our book. Despite its immense popularity, when it comes to things like humour and absurdity, Formula 1 is not exactly a ride on the big dipper and in that respect it hasn't buttered our parsnips for decades. Well, nil desperandum boys and girls because we, Damon Graham Devereux Hill, OBE, and John Paul Herbert, No BE, are here to put the F back into Formula 1 by ditching aerodynamics, clean air and tyre degradation in favour of honest, forthright opinions and apocryphal stories involving automotive derring-do. And, derring-don't
Notă biografică
Damon Hill is a former Formula One World Champion who raced against some of the legends of the sport, from Ayrton Senna to Michael Schumacher. The son of racing legend Graham Hill, Damon entered Formula One in 1992, racing for Brabham and then Williams, and took over as team leader when Senna died in 1994. Having lost the 1994 World Championship to Schumacher by a single point, Hill was crowned World Champion in 1996. His autobiography Watching the Wheels was a Sunday Times number one bestseller.
Johnny Herbert is one of a small number of British drivers to have won a Grand Prix since the 1970s, tasting success with Benetton at Silverstone and Monza in 1995, then delivering a one-and-only top podium place for Jackie Stewart's team at the 1999 European Grand Prix at the Nürburgring. He also became the first active Formula One driver to win the endurance classic 24 Hours of Le Mans, with Bertrand Gachot and Volker Weidler in 1991, and has been a champion at karting, the Formula Ford Festival, Formula Three, the European Le Mans and the Speedcar Series in his long and varied career. His autobiography What Doesn't Kill You . . .was published to acclaim in 2016.
Herbert and Hill work together as pundits on Sky Sports' award-winning coverage of Formula One.