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Forza Amon!: A Biography of Chris Amon [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Eoin Young (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 239 pages
  • Publisher: J H Haynes & Co Ltd; illustrated edition edition (27 Aug 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844250164
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844250165
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 468,117 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'This won't disappoint' Motor Sport 'affectionate and readable' Formula 1 Magazine 'long overdue' Motorsport News 'Worth a read' Classic & Sports Car

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Chris Amon, a New Zealand sheep farmer's son who led the Ferrari team for two seasons in the late 1960s, is remembered in Formula 1 as the best driver never to win a Grand Prix. Yet his contemporary Jackie Stewart rated him as one of the world's foremost drivers and Jochen Rindt considered him a true rival. Eoin Young chronicles the life of this extraordinary racer who was driving at the age of six, had a pilot's licence at 16 and competed a 1954 250F Grand Prix Maserati a year later.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Great subject, poor effort, 6 Oct 2003
By aglaess (Littleton, CO) - See all my reviews
A biography about Chris Amon is long overdue, so I was looking forward to this book with great anticipation. I neeedn't have bothered.
Forza Amon is more like an outline of a biography than anything else. Taking a page from the Christopher Hilton school of book writing, Eoin Young gives us a very quicky account of a great driver and fascinating character. The most annoying thing is that much of it Young didn't even write--for too much of this book is text taken from other sources, books magazines and correspondence.
Where are the interviews of Amon's peers? There are a few snippets, but nothing like a good biography requires. Mr. Young is a Motorsports book dealer on the side, and I wish he would go read some of Gerald Donaldson's, James Hunt, or Adam Cooper's, Piers Courage, before attempting his next work.
Save your money.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good but rather too short, 20 Jan 2005
By Peter Fenelon - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forza Amon!: A Biography of Chris Amon (Hardcover)
Chris Amon has entered racing legend as "the man who never won a Grand Prix" - largely through bad luck. He could and indeed should have won many, and could so easily have taken a couple of championships.

Eoin Young's biography concentrates squarely on Amon the driver - from a teenager racing an obsolete Maserati 250F in New Zealand races against the established aces in their rear-engined Coopers to the man recognised as one of the quickest and best drivers of the late 60s and early 70s - there is much insight into how McLaren, Ferrari and Matra went racing.

The style is brisk and rather rushed, skipping over deeper personal insight in preference for analysis of Chris' racing career in single seaters and sports cars.

Some of the "Ditton Road Flyers" social scene is described, as are some of Chris' occasionally catastrophic business ventures, but the emphasis is firmly on racing - the personal side is somewhat neglected and at one point I'm sure Chris is described as getting divorced from someone who we haven't even been told he'd married!

The descriptions of the chaos Chris found at Tecno and the tribulations of the Amon F1 car (and the offers Chris threw away out of loyalty to his staff and backers), and Chris' twilight career at Ensign stand as a rather frightening footnote to a career that promised so much and yet despite success in so many other areas of motorsport failed to give Chris the Grand Prix wins and Championships he so richly deserved.

There is some interesting material about Chris' life after racing, bringing the story pretty much up to date.

A good book, but I was left with the definite impression that something twice its length still wouldn't be sufficient to cover all the detail I wanted to see.

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1.0 out of 5 stars A Real Disappointment, 9 Jan 2005
By L. N. Nixon "nlnxn" (uk) - See all my reviews
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I have to agree with the other review posted here. Amon is one of the most engaging and enigmatic characters of his era and his career that promised so much demands a really good biography. Those who followed him at the time will know the basic facts, the real questions - to what extent he brought about his own bad luck, how it impacted on him, how he views his life almost thirty years into retirement from F1 - are largely unanswered beyond superficial linkings of the facts. Amon would make a great movie or television documentary and many F1 fans today would doubtless be amazed at his story, from the early promise to the feats of gaining points with almost undrivable cars like the Tecno and Ensign in the later days. Sadly, this book is unlikely to inspire any re-evaluation of such a compelling figure.
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