Formula 1 in camera 19t0-t9 vol 2

PAUL PARKER, Behemoth Publishing, £40, ISBn 978 0 9928769 2 0

WE HAVE BEEn great admirers of Parker’s previous photo histories and have reproduced extracts in Octane before now. This is arguably his best effort yet. You know what to expect: a decade’s worth of Formula 1 imagery with extended – and well-researched – accompanying captions. And the images really are hugely evocative. It helps that this was a decade that witnessed seismic shifts in car design, not to mention the arrival of corporate sponsorship and colourful drivers from a time when wheelmen weren’t media-trained to within an inch of their lives. But while the inevitable superstars are here – Clark, Stewart, Surtees and so on – what really appeals are the never-before-published images of, say, privateer John Taylor steering his Brabham BT11 to sixth place in the 1966 French Grand Prix, or…

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Octane (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2015

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