The beginning of the decade saw New Zealander Bill Gavin arrive in Europe from his home country to try to scratch a living as a race reporter, starting with the 1960 Monaco Grand Prix, and by the end of the decade he was manager of Ferrari's CanAm team in North America. Along the way there was Love, Life & Death, all colorfully told by a fine writer who knew the leading drivers very well indeed and has many stories to tell. This is a memoir from a golden age of motor racing - the 1960s - by a Bill Gavin whose anecdotes and reminiscences have never been told.

A glittering account of Formula One's most thrilling and fatal era, culminating in the explosive championship battle of the 1961 Grand Prix.

10 September 1961: at the boomerang-shaped racetrack at Monza, in northern Italy, half a dozen teams are preparing for the Italian Grand Prix. It is the biggest race anyone can remember.

In The Limit, Michael Cannell tells the enthralling story of Phil Hill-a lowly California mechanic who would become the first American-born driver to win the Grand Prix-and, on the fiftieth anniversary of his triumph, brings to life a vanished world of glamour, valor, and daring. With the pacing and vivid description of a novel, The Limit charts the journey that brought Hill from dusty California lots racing midget cars into the ranks of a singular breed of men, competing with daredevils for glory on Grand Prix tracks across Europe. Facing death at every turn, these men rounded circuits at well over 150 mph in an era before seat belts or roll bars-an era when drivers were "crushed, burned, and beheaded with unnerving regularity." From the stink of grease-smothered pits to the long anxious nights in lonely European hotels, from the tense camaraderie of teammates to the trembling suspense of photo finishes, The Limit captures the 1961 season that would mark the high point of Hill's career. It brings readers up close to the remarkable men who surrounded Hill on the circuit-men like Hill's teammate and rival, the soigné and cool-headed German count Wolfgang Von Trips (nicknamed "Count Von Crash"), and Enzo Ferrari, the reclusive and monomaniacal padrone of the Ferrari racing empire. Race by race, The Limit carries readers to its riveting and startling climax-the final contest that would decide it all, one of the deadliest in Grand Prix history.

We're best friends. The original forbidden fruit. We have to stop this before it wrecks us both. Jo I moved away from my best friend when I was fifteen. It nearly killed me. A decade later, he disappeared after a devastating Formula 1 crash left him a shattered, broken, husk of a man. I had no choice. His demons control him. My wagon has always been hitched to Logan Kendrick, Australia's sexy hero F1 driver, my boss, and best friend since we were kids. Whether he chooses to drag me up into heaven, or down into darkness, is entirely irrelevant, because that's where you'll find me. Like a pathetic fangirl, I've been hopelessly in love with my best friend since I was six years old, and he will never know it. Logan I'm the rookie son of a legend, a three-time world driver champion. I get by on a charming smile and sarcastic Aussie wit, but I will never measure up. We all know it. I'm a murderer. Nothing I do changes the fact that I killed a man. Doesn't matter if it was an accident. I deserve the nightmares, the guilt. Forgive me, mate, if I go off the rails from time to time. I've been in love with my sports physiologist, my best friend, Jo, for as long as I can remember. Regardless of how my body reacts as she slathers me in massage oil every day, how inappropriate it is, I can't live without her. And she will never know it. I have no choice. Her future isn't with me. I have to let her go. And it's going to be the death of me. ★★★★★ Author Kat Ransom brings you her next bestselling F1 Sports Romance series! Book 2 in the Donington Racing Series, Wrecked can be read as a standalone. This smoking hot, steamy romance has heartbreak, a mess of angst, and a whole lot of bad boys in fast cars! You're getting a full-length novel with a guaranteed HEA, but no lame cheating or pesky cliffhangers.

It is the story of an existence immersed in the heroic world of Formula One. The essay dissects the dramatic play. At first, one keeps silent to remember. One meditates, one reacts. Words are there, chiseled, exemplary. Thez say the vertigo of besieged time in space where past and future collide in anguish to form a strange mosaic, Formula One is condemned to death. Analysis is useful to meditate on the effects of our actions because we have a good excuse, that of letting it happen. Beyond the narrative, one day the truth arises for everyone: am I blind or guilty?

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 This is my life, not the stuff you've seen, but the things you haven't. This is my childhood growing up in the West Country, my struggles, my doubts and my hopes. It's the people I've met in my seventeen years in Formula One, many of whom I've loved, some of whom I definitely haven't. It's the laughs I've shared, the battles I've fought, some on the track with rivals and friends like Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. It's the pressure I struggled with as I closed in on my World Championship in 2009, it's the calm I felt every time I settled into the cockpit. It's my dad - the many times he saved me, the one moment he doubted me, the hole in my life he left me. It's everything in one go, the good days as well as the bad. A life lived not just as a racing driver but, ultimately, as a human being.