Buy this book on-line CANNELL,MICHAEL: : THE LIMIT: Life and Death in Formula One's Most Dangerous EraLONDON.ATLANTIC BOOKS LTD.,2011. ISBN 9781848872226.
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10 September 1961: at the boomerang-shaped racetrack at Monza,in northern Italy,half a dozen teams are preparing for the Italian Grand Prix.It is the biggest race anyone can remember.Phil Hill - the firt American to break into the top ranks of European racing - and his Ferrari teammate,Count Wolfgang von Trips - a German nobleman with a movie-star manner - face one another in a race that will decide the winner of the Formula One drivers' championship.By the day's end,one man will clinch that prize. The other will perish face down on the track.
In 'The Limit',Michael Cannell tells the thrilling story of two parallel lives that came together in tragedy on that late- summer afternoon.He charts the careers of Hill and von Trips from childhood and adolescence lived in the shadow of the Second World War; through their gruelling experiences in such deadly road races aas the Mille Miglia and the 24 Hours of Le Mans; to their coming of age in the hothouse atmosphere of Enzo Ferrari's Formula ne team of the late 1950s.The quiet and self-contained Hill was a pathological worrier who vomited before races and enjoyed Bartok and Shotakovich - rather than Campari and debauchery - after them; the dashing von Trips lived life as fast as he drove his 'sharknose' Ferrari,and yearned to inspire a nation fractured and traumatized by war.Both men strove to attain the perfect balance of speed and control that drivers called 'the limit': to drive under that limit was to run the risk of failure; to go beyond it was to dice with disaster.
'The Limit' is a vivid and atmospheric recreation of a lost world of seductive glamour and ever-present danger.Michael Cannell tells a moving and unforgettable tale of high speed and burning rivalry - and of young lives lived in the shadow of death.
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