Personalised History of Formula 1 Book

Formula One motor racing is a big international business these days with a worldwide audience. But it wasn’t always that way.

Revisit the greatest Grand Prix races in history through newspaper clippings in this personalised Formula One book, now updated with Lewis Hamilton’s 2018 Championship at Grand Prix in Mexico. With coverage beginning in 1958, the year Mike Hawthorn became the first ever World Drivers’ Champion, this timeless F1 gift takes you through decades of Formula One history, revisiting all the key moments from Monza, Montreal, Monte Carlo and more, right up until 2018.

Beginning in 1950, the early years of Formula One belonged to drivers from Italy and Argentina in the Italian vehicles of Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Ferrari. That was until Mike Hawthorn’s 1958 championship ushered in a period of British and Australian dominance, with Jack Brabham, Jim Clark and Graham Hill all winning multiple titles during the next decade. The 1970s brought Jackie Stewart and the Austrian Niki Lauda, who won three championships apiece, before a spell of French and Brazilian success, courtesy of Alain Prost, Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna, who won ten championships between them from 1981 to 1993, before the latter tragically lost his life in a crash at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. Around the turn of the century, Michael Schumacher became the most successful driver of all time by winning seven Driver’s Championships, including five-in-a-row from 2000 to 2004 while racing for Ferrari. His fellow countryman Sebastian Vettel almost matched the feat a few years later, capturing four straight, but was denied a fifth by Lewis Hamilton,

What puts this F1 history book in the pole position is the fact that it is personalised every time. Add an embossed name to the front of this impressive book and a message to the recipient inside to clinch the title for the best gift ever.