BOOK REVIEW - A MOST ENJOYABLE DENTAL APPOINTMENT

Even before I opened this book, I was excited. I’d noted the multi-shot cover which included photos of David Purley in the Token, Henri Pescarolo in a BRM P201 and Tom Pryce in a Shadow DN3, so the right boxes were immediately ticked, and I already had a pretty good idea what to expect inside. But with the first page of the first chapter I mentally yelped ‘Surtees TS5A, in Castrol colours!’ (though I’m damned if I can remember where it raced in the UK in that livery). ‘Lola T300!’ ‘McLaren M18!’ I was always a huge fan of Formula 5000, and those images whetted the appetite for what was to follow