The Red Helmet

"There are only three sports: bullfighting, mountain climbing and motor racing; all the rest are merely games."- Ernest Hemingway "Grand Prix racing is primarily a mental contest... it's a battle of strength of wills by the combatants and a magnificent contest, the arena to display and share unique gifts and talents. Perhaps in this F1 is a metaphor for life itself"- craig "I don't want to live a balanced life. Racing is all I want to do."- Mario Andretti (World Drivers Champion in...
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"There are only three sports: bullfighting, mountain climbing and motor racing; all the rest are merely games."- Ernest Hemingway "Grand Prix racing is primarily a mental contest... it's a battle of strength of wills by the combatants and a magnificent contest, the arena to display and share unique gifts and talents. Perhaps in this F1 is a metaphor for life itself"- craig "I don't want to live a balanced life. Racing is all I want to do."- Mario Andretti (World Drivers Champion in 1978) *THE MIND, THE "TOP TWO INCHES" OF THE GREAT GRAND PRIX DRIVERS"The driver is expected to explore the inner places of his desire by taking everything to this limit...to translate it into a sublime peak only he can reach; but the trouble is they're all doing it.... on a narrow ribbon of track, together."- fine writing by Christopher Hilton in his fascinating book Inside the Mind of a Grand Prix Driver,Haynes Publishing 2003 (first published as a hardcover in 2001)Web site http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Mind-Grand-Prix-Driver/dp/1844250172"All drivers are united by a passion for what they do. They express it in different ways, as you would expect, because they are fiercely independent and ambitious men drawn from every continent and every background. But the message transcends everything." Submitter's NoteThis "work, this true labour of passion and love" follows on my other Amazon e-books on motor racing and specifically Formula One (they are ' The Mind of a Grand Prix Driver, Stirling, The Prize, The Grand Prize, The Formula One Mind, God and Formula One, The Winning Way, The White Helmet and The Yellow Helmet', Obsessive or WHAT!).Here are some of my notes from research into many books about the very best Grand Prix drivers (of all time). Other (many and varied) sources are from racing magazines, newspaper cuttings with quotes from drivers, many unknown . Enjoy my shared "true labours of passion and love". "We share what we know, so that we all may grow" craig"The racing driver exists through the medium of speed."