Formula One: The Pinnacle: The pivotal events that made Formula 1 motorsport's greatest series (Volume 3) (Formula One, 3)

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This review is for the book Formula One: The Pinnacle: The pivotal events that made F1 the greatest motorsport series (Volume 3). It is 240 pages long and was published in July of 2022 by Ivy Press. I have received the hardcover version and it is very nice looking on a shelf.The photos inside the book are amazing and may be the best part of the entire thing. They really capture the action and intensity that F1 can have at times. There is pretty much at least one photo per page in this book so there are a ton to look at. They are high quality and very interesting. This might just be the best part of this book.This is more of a high level overview of F1 racing through the years and how it got to where it is today. They do not get into many of the details and it is more of a summary of major things than anything else. The cover and title calls this out, "The pivotal events that made Formula 1 motorsports greatest series", so you can know exactly what you are getting here.Chapters. This book is broken up into what I would call sections more than chapters but that's okay. The first part is dedicated to the sport itself and how it came to be, including grid setup and other details such as this. The second chapter is dedicated to the circuit tracks that are mainly used but it really only details 6 of them here plus talking about night racing. Chapter 3 is the technical chapter where they discuss everything from the engines to aerodynamics. Chapter 4 speaks about controversies in the sport and is probably the most fun read of the book for me. Number 5 is about safety and how this has evolved over the years and was a really interesting part of the book.In part 6 of this book they discuss personalities in F1 racing and I feel like this is a missed opportunity. There are only a handful of drivers discussed here. I understand this is meant as a broad overview of F1 but it feels like they could have talked about a lot more people than this that made a difference in the sport. The rest of the book discusses the commercial aspects of the sport.Overall this is a solid book and would make someone happy who is an F1 fan. However they will need to find the rest of the series of books because this only covers a portion of F1 history and you really need the others to fill in more gaps.

In this review of “Formula 1: The Pinnacle,” I won’t exhaustively list and describe the subjects that authors Simon Arron and Tony Dodges cover in their stunning coffee-table volume. You can easily discern the breadth and depth of the material yourself using the Look Inside feature of the Product Description, which gives a limited but accurate indication of the book’s contents.Rather, I’ll just enthusiastically report that this book is a work of art that should captivate even the most casual fans of Formula 1 or, indeed, any other motorsport. With its topics structured in the form of two-to-four-page vignettes with easy-to-read, relevant text, and amazing, full-color, well-captioned photos, many of them full- or two-page spreads, “Formula 1” gives the reader the historical, technical, personal and commercial story of the sport in bite-sized pieces that, in toto, amount to as good an overall treatment of the subject as I’ve seen. True, it concentrates mainly on the later years of the sport, but most of the innovations that made Formula 1 what it is today took place in the last 50 years, so the authors’ focus is appropriate.The production values of “Formula 1” are as exemplary as its subject matter and artistic merit. Heavy for its size, tightly bound, attractively dustjacketed and with its 240 glossy pages filled with crisp, stunningly sharp photos and right-sized text, the volume exudes quality, even to that wonderful “new book” smell.To say that I’m pleased with this book is an understatement. I love it!. While most of the material that it presents is just a few keystrokes away for those so inclined, this fine volume embodies a traditional presentation that truly does the subject proud. I’m delighted to add “Formula 1: The Pinnacle” to my library of real physical books.

I think this book is fantastic for anyone remotely interested in F1, whether you’ve been a fan forever or maybe just recently got into the sport like myself. I have been around the Motorsports industry for a long time but circle track, and just started getting more into F1 when the Netflix show came out (bandwagon fan, I know). This book is perfect to teach others a little about the sport even if they are just picking it up from my table and browsing through.The photos are amazing quality and there’s at least one on every page. The book starts out with a foreword from Guenther Steiner himself, the Haas team principle. It’s broken up into chapters. The chapters start with a synopsis of the sport, then the circuits, the technical aspects, controversies, safety, the hall of famers in the sport, and lastly the commercial side. I would say the author does a good job at making each chapter informative without being boring. It gives a good synopsis of the sport as a whole, which always makes for a good coffee table book.I was personally impressed with the book and it’s one of the first books friends will grab when looking through my stack! Great job to the authors, I hope you continue making more books on the subject as history goes on.