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This is a great book.
Driving Ambition "The Official Story of The McLaren F1" is a great book because it explains many things about the McLaren F1, from the thought of the car to the winning of the famous LeMans race. The book is 272 pages long, it has over 600 photographes and illustrations (the pictures in the book are great), it is hard covered and jacketed, and the book comes with a McLaren poster. Buy the book if you like McLarens, besides all you have to do is get a credit card type some numbers and wait a little while. Its worth it.
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An engineer's delight!
"Driving Ambition: The Official Inside Story of the McLaren F1" is an absolutely delightful book, especially from an engineer's perspective. It thoroughly and entertainingly tells the story of how an engineer and his team can achieve their creative dreams if allowed maximum latitude.The overall quality of the text, diagrams and photographs is excellent. And it won't disappoint motorsport fans, either! This book would be well worth twice the asking price.
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Good, but room for improvement
This book is very impressive in that it uses high quality materials, and is expertly put together. I was disappointed in the writing of the book. It spends a great deal of time talking about how they were planning on making this car, how they went about obtaining production space, how they hired certain people, and myriad, pre-production facts. Then there is a very short space on the actual technical facts of what the car has in it, and what it feels like to drive it. Then there is a very lenghty history of the car being used as a racer (Le Mans, etc.). I wish the book had more detail about the physical components in the car, and descriptions of the visceral experience of driving it. It's like, let's keep them in suspense with a build-up, and then wrap it up in a hurry with no real meat of the story. If racing interests you, this book is your calling. If road cars are what you like, it falls short.
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