{"id":12430,"date":"2020-03-10T19:53:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T02:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=12430"},"modified":"2020-03-10T20:01:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T03:01:59","slug":"celebrating-70-years-of-f1-with-the-sports-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=12430","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 70 years of F1 with the sport\u2019s Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/F1-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/>In <em>Formula One: The Champions\u201470 Years of Legendary F1 Drivers <\/em>author Maurice Hamilton and award-winning photographers Bernard and son Paul-Henri Cahier have produced a 240-page hard cover book that pays tribute to the great F1 champions of the modern era.<\/p>\n<p>To attain the title of F1 World Driver\u2019s Champion is considered the pinnacle achievement in motorsport and beyond the wonderful photography, the book includes the in-depth story of the 33 legends who achieved this accolade.<\/p>\n<p>From the first: Dr. Giuseppe \u2018Nino\u2019 Farina in 1950, to the current: Lewis Hamilton, who won his sixth title in 2019, \u201cSome were better than others at, say, getting the whole team around them, or being technically brilliant, or even being super quick drivers. But they were united by being very competitive and extremely astute,\u201d said Bernie Ecclestone in the book\u2019s foreword.<\/p>\n<p>In all, some of the 33 champions met their demise in cars\u2014both on the road and track. Nineteen are still living, leaving 14 that have died in the last 70 years. Four died of old age, one in a plane crash, one died of a heart attack while racing at an advanced age, another from a lifetime of substance abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The book includes exclusive quotes from the likes of Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton and the author\u2019s interviews with many of F1\u2019s now-departed heroes, such as Ayrton Senna and James Hunt.<\/p>\n<p>The highest class of single-seater auto racing and its incredible drivers are brought to vivid life in this book and is a worthy addition to any F1 enthusiast\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Formula One: The Champions: 70 years of legendary F1 drivers<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Maurice Hamilton (author), Bernard Cahier (photographer), Paul-Henri Cahier (photographer)<br \/>\nWhite Lion Publishing 2020<br \/>\nISBN 978-1781319468<\/p>\n<p>Hard cover, 240 pages<\/p>\n<p>Cost: $50 CDN<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Formula One: The Champions\u201470 Years of Legendary F1 Drivers author Maurice Hamilton and award-winning photographers Bernard and son Paul-Henri Cahier have produced a 240-page hard cover book that pays tribute to the great F1 champions of the modern era. To attain the title of F1 World Driver\u2019s Champion is considered the pinnacle achievement in<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=12430\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-12430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12436,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12430\/revisions\/12436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}