The Ultimate Motorsport Guide (Autosport)

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Product:	Autosport
Date:	26/09/00 (34 review reads)
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Advantages: Great writing, comprehensive reviews

Disadvantages: None

If you are a self-confessed petrol-head, then the weekly Autosport magazine is the one for you. I have been reading it for nearly ten years, and wouldn’t even consider anything else.

It has the whole package; latest news and gossip, in-depth interviews, special features, and race reports from around the globe. In fact, they cover all aspects of racing, from Formula 1 to club rallying, American stock cars to European Drag racing, and at tracks from Indianapolis to Castle Combe. You would be very hard pressed to find a discipline that isn’t covered.

With a vastly experienced writing team, the features are always interesting, and interviews are not always with the top stars, but with team members, new drivers etc. The gossip and news pages (Pit and Paddock), is a good read, although some of the stories are sensationalised somewhat (but then this is a news magazine!). They do, however, have some excellent contacts, and you can usually find a good news article here first, with the daily newspapers following in the next few days as they read Autosport, and pinch the story. Witness the story that Damon Hill would be sacked by Williams in 1996, which was published months before in was confirmed. Damon didn’t believe the story, and banished the journalist from his motor home. He only spoke to him again when the truth was revealed, and the journalist proven correct. This is just one of Autosport’s triumphs, as no-one had any idea of this until Autosport released it.

After recently celebrating 50 years as motorsport’s unofficial Bible it is still as good as ever (you quite often see pictures of some of the best drivers in the world catching up on the news in the latest Autosport), and is great value for the discerning motoring anorak.

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