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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 [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: J H Haynes & Co Ltd; illustrated edition edition (4 Oct 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1859608337
ISBN-13: 978-1859608333
Product Dimensions: 28.7 x 15.1 x 2.6 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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In a series of probing interviews with top Formula 1 drivers, past and present, Christopher Hilton gets deep behind the image to find what really makes them tick. With unprecedented candour they discuss their strengths and weaknesses, how they cope with incessant danger, and the compulsive drive for which they risk life. Analysis by a top sports psychologist adds a unique depth to this revealing study.

About the Author
Christopher Hilton has written a number of well-received books on Formula 1, including an in-depth biography of Ayrton Senna that has been translated into ten languages. His recent Hitler's Grands Prix in England is a meticulous piece of research recreating the Donington races of 1937 and 1938. 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

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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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