Lewis Hamilton: The Full Story

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Editorial reviews

Daily Telegraph
"The best for knowledgeable fans is The Full Story by Mark Hughes (Icon,
£16.99), which - odd though it may seem - provides more detail, particularly
on the earliest days of his racing career, than Hamilton's own version.
Hughes is an accomplished Formula One journalist with a particularly
accurate eye for the driving styles of individual drivers. Most of these
authors have no trouble in persuading you that Hamilton is good. Hughes can
tell you better than the rest why he is good: this is the volume for the
petrolhead in your life."

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Synopsis
Published to coincide with start of the hotly-anticipated 2008 season, this book is a widely acclaimed and hugely successful hardback published at the climax of the 2007 World Championship. It has considerable brand new material added to the paperback edition. Veteran F1 journalist Mark Hughes unearths the true foundations that have enabled a personable and down-to-earth 22-year-old from a sleepy village in Hertfordshire to achieve the most successful start to a career the sport has ever seen.This book helps you discover how it all began, from the day Hamilton's father bought a hyperactive six-year-old a go-kart, to the British, European and World karting titles that followed. You can learn how at a motorsport awards ceremony in 1995, a plucky 10-year-old Hamilton asked Ron Dennis (the principal of McLaren F1 Racing) of the opportunity to race for his team in the future and how in 1998, at 13-years-old, McLaren duly signed him in a long-term agreement that made him the youngest driver in history with an F1 contract.Hughes takes us through the intervening years, right up to the explosive 2007 Formula one season when he became not only the first black driver ever to race an F1 car, but the first driver of any colour to stand on the podium at the end of their first nine races.

As Sir Jackie Stewart said, 'Lewis is a man of the people and the people will love him for it.' Brand new material in this paperback edition includes: interviews with former F1 drivers who proffer their opinion on his qualities, where he needs to make improvements, where he stacks-up against the greats, and what his ultimate potential is; an insider view of testing during close season; and, a preview of the 2008 season and a detailed run-down of his prospects against the new team line-ups, including his new team-mate at McLaren.

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Customer reviews

review by: WilliT63 date: 2008-01-20 rating:
Full Story?
I ask you how this can possibly be the "full story" when Hamilton has only started what promises to be a long and successful Formula 1 career. As well written and informative as this book may be, the title is absurd and amounts to an insult to sound thinking.


review by: date: 2007-11-20 rating:
A different league ...
I was reading the F1 Fanatic website the other day and came across a cracking review of this book that signed-off with this: 'If you are thinking of getting a Hamilton book, please don't be duped into thinking the official book will automatically be the best option. "The Full Story" is a far better choice.'
Having now read both of them, I can categorically say that F1 Fanatic and The Telegraph (from the review I can see above) are unquestionably correct. Mark Hughes' book is excellent and blows Hamilton's ghostwritten offering out of the water.

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