Exceptional Value (Formula 1 Magazine)

Name: stugillespie

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Product:	Formula 1 Magazine
Date:	06/01/02 (121 review reads)
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Advantages: Photography, Most Articles, News coverage

Disadvantages: Senna articles, Letters page is poor

At £3.50 an issue, you might not think this magazine is good value, but you'd be wrong. The smaller F1 Racing is priced at at least £3, and F1 News, which is much smaller than this magazine, is gradually getting more expensive. The Autosport Review of the year, the same size as the last issue of F1 Magazine, was £5.99! This magazine is definitely good value.

Out once a month, it's edited by Nigel Mansell. There are also columns from some bloked called Tom Rubython or something, plus one from Eddie Irvine which is usually very interesting. The news coverage this magazine is fantastic, as their coverage of the Adrian Newey affair proved. They also covered the Alesi and Frentzen thing very well.

The magazine has several regular features, such as a road car test by John Watson, an article on a celebrity fan and an article on a drivers wife. One thing that really annoys me, however, is the need to have an article on Ayrton Senna in every issue. I know he was a great driver, but so were Prost, Mansell and Piquet and they haven't even had one article yet! The December one took the biscuit, with the cover dedicated to the article about Senna's last love affair. Let's hope its the last article as well.

The photography in the magazine is superb. Add this to in depth race reports and previews, and technical features and you have a good magazine. My only other complaint is the letters page, as their is never any response from the people working at the magazine to the readers comments.

Overall, this magazine is fantastic. It only started in 2001 and it is set to last a long, long time.

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