The Piranha Club: Power and Influence in Formula One

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Virgin, 2004 - Sports & Recreation - 328 pages

Now fully revised and updated, The Piranha Club is the first serious study of Formula One's most fascinating and influential figures - the men who wield the real power.
Author Timothy Collings has written a riveting analysis of the Formula One paddock, explaining how it works, who runs it, how it makes money and what sort of people exist there.

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Contents

HOW IT WAS IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS
63
JOHN COOPER COLIN CHAPMAN
81
BERNIE
125
Copyright

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About the author (2004)

Timothy Collings is an author and sportswriter with his own sports new agency, Collings Sport. He has reported on Formula One since 1986 and has previously written books on Michael Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve and assisted Damon Hill with his recollections of his championship-winning season in 1996. As well as The Piranha Club he has written Eddie Jordan: The Biography and is co-author of Jackie Stewart: A Restless Life.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Piranha Club: Power and Influence in Formula One
AuthorTimothy Collings
Edition2, illustrated, revised
PublisherVirgin, 2004
ISBN0753509652, 9780753509654
Length328 pages
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