Monaco: Inside F1's Greatest Race [Paperback]

Celebrating the romance of F1 and motor racing, this definitive book about the Monaco Grand Prix tells the story of the world' most famous race through the people who know it best - the drivers.

Featuring some of F1's biggest stars, including Bernie Ecclestone, Nico Rosberg, Damon Hill, Ross Brawn (Schumacher's old team boss who won the race with him), David Coulthard, as well as members of McLaren and Ferrari, Folley's book captures Monaco's, present and  past, with a special focus on its most extraordinary race in 1996, when only three cars finished.

An astonishing afternoon of high drama, in wet conditions, saw multiple accidents and mechanical failures eliminated favourites such as Michael Schumacher, Damon Hill, Jacques Villeneuve, Jean Alesi and Eddie Irvine. No Formula One race before, or since, has had fewer cars complete a grand prix and this in an era when 22 cars started. A plucky Frenchman, Olivier Panis won, and British drivers David Coulthard and Johnny Herbert finished behind him.MALCOLM FOLLEYis an award-winning sports writer who has been Chief Sports Reporter for theMailon Sunday since 1992. With thirty-three years' experience as a staff writer on national newspapers, he has travelled the world reporting on tennis, football, Formula One, rugby, boxing, and has covered ten Olympic Games, summer and winter. He has written five books, includingBorg versus McEnroe,a chronicle of the greatest rivalry in tennis history.

He collaborated with England world cup winner Jason Robinson on his bestselling autobiography,Finding My Feet.He has also written the authorised biography of Olympic champion Jonathan Edwards,A Time to Jump, and was co-author of the autobiography of Grand National legend Ginger McCain,From Red to Amber,and the life story of tennis champion Hana Mandlikova.

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