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Inside the Mind of the Grand Prix Driver: The Psychology of the Fastest Men on Earth - Sex, Danger and Everything Else (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: J H Haynes & Co Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition (16 Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844250172
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844250172
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Reformatted in paperback with new interviews and information, this book gets behind the PR-speak to explore what Grand Prix drivers really think and feel. They talk with rare frankness on their hopes and fears, how they began racing and what forces them to continue, their crashes, emotions, survival techniques - and how racing compares with sex. In this book: Michael Schumacher outlines his philosophy and Eddie Irvine explores being alive; Kimi Raikkonen explains why he doesn't like being told what to do; Karl Wendlinger opens his heart over the 1994 Imola weekend; Johnny Herbert confesses to a fear of pushbikes; Mark Blundell talks about sensitivity; and Perry McCarthy explains why only other drivers can understand racing. It also contains insights about the drivers' mindset from motor racing coach John Stevens, sports psychologist Andrew Walton and the manager of Benetton's Human Performance Centre, Bernie Shrosbree.


About the Author

Christopher Hilton, author of Murray Walker: The last word, has written a number of acclaimed Formula 1 biographies including Michael Schumacher: The greatest of all? and Ayrton Senna: As time goes by. He lives at Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Fascinating Insight Into The World of F1 Drivers' Thinking, 4 Nov 2001
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Chris Hilton's penetrating interviews combined with internationally renowned Sport Psychologist Andrew Walton's interpretations offer up a rare and fascinating insight into the normally closed world of the private views and cognitive profiles of the elite Grand Prix drivers. If you are keen to discover more about how these men (and could women ever aspire to join them?) tick differently from the rest of us, put it on your Christmas book list!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, but doesn't quite live up to its billing, 27 Aug 2006
This is a book which promises more than it delivers. Aside from a little wooliness in places, it is a well written and intelligently-advanced set of theories as what success in motorsport actually looks like. However, for a book that promises to lift the lid on the 'fastest men on earth,' there just simply aren't enough of them - whilst there is an interesting encounter with Michael Schumacher and numerous anecdotes about Ayrton Senna (there should be, Hilton has written enough books about him...), the other subjects are the likes of Mark Blundell, Julian Bailey, Eddie Irvine and Perry McCarthy (who actually never made it in F1) and so on, I mean, really.....competent drivers, but ultimately failures, a long way from the elite and most defineltly not the fastest men on earth. Hilton surely would have produced a much more credible account by having a detailed look at such as Alain Prost (who was as quick as anyone, but only when he NEEDED to be)and Nigel Mansell only really gets mentioned in passing, same with Mika Hakkinen. Hilton could also have pieced together the sadly short career of Stefan Bellof (a young driver whose amazing speed was to cost him everything) - it wouldn't have been too difficult, there are plenty of people around who knew him.

In terms of the focus, talent and sacrifice required to be amongst the absolute best of the best, there is a world of difference between between some of the also-rans who fill Hilton's pages and the real greats such as Senna, Scumacher, Prost, Hakkinen, etc. It just doesn't go far enough.

I certainly wouldn't deny this book is a good read, but for me at least, it is fundamentally flawed.
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