Shunt: The Story of James Hunt

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Stock Code: B14972B Publisher Code: 978095656500 ISBN 13: 978095656500 Published: 2010 Pages: 602 Dimensions: 160x240mm Illustrations: Hard Cover, Colour ill Click to enlarge Description James Hunt is remembered more for his girlfriends and wild personal exploits than for his skills in a race car. But the excesses of his glamorous life cannot hide the fact that he was, in many people's opinion, the fastest driver on the Formula One circuits in the 1970s. In an era dominated by the likes of Emerson Fittipaldi, Niki Lauda and Ronnie Peterson, Hunt stood out in terms of raw speed and his seemingly effortless ability to plant a Formula One car on pole position. In this first full and comprehensive account of the life of James Hunt, the author and his researchers have examined every detail of the driver's life - from his very earliest days to the last hours of his existence - as well as the lives of the people he left behind. It is a story many have tried to tell - but never in such a complete way.This is that story. An icon of the 1970s ...the story of a life Chapter 1 Death: the unexpected -1993 Chapter 2. Early Life – 1947-1965 Chapter 3 Metamorphis: doctor to driver –1965-1967 Chapter 4 Mini Racer –1967 Chapter 5 Into Formula Ford –1968-1969 Chapter 6 The first big accident –1968 Chapter 7 The Vallelunga Incident Chapter 8 Fateful meeting with John Hogan – 1970 Chapter 9 The Formula 3 years – 1969-1972 Chapter 10 Flattening Dave Morgan and the shunts Chapter 11 Character building and the lack of a 'Plan B' Chapter 12 The Turning Point: meeting Bubbles and Alexander – 1971 Chapter 13 Formula 2 proves the springboard to Fl –1972-1973 Chapter 14 Formula One finally beckons – 1973 Chapter 15 Established in Formula One -1974 Chapter 16 Spain and tax exile – 1974 Chapter 17 Marriage to Suzy and Richard Burton to the rescue Chapter 18 The First Win – 1975 Chapter 19 Nearly down and out of Formula One – 1975 Chapter 20 The Championship Year – 1976 Chapter 21 Fiasco at Brands Hatch – 1976 Chapter 22 Near-Death Experience: Niki Lauda Chapter 23 Showdown in Japan Chapter 24 Reigning World Champion –1976- 1977 Chapter 25 Girls, Girls, Girls then Jane – 1975-1977 Chapter 26 A desperately disappointing title defence –1977 Chapter 27 A fear of death hold Chapter 28 The end of the road with McLaren – 1978 Chapter 29 The death of Ronnie Peterson –1978 Chapter 30 --Sudden retirement and gone –1979 Chapter 31 The return to Britain – 1980 Chapter 32 Disaster on the ski slopes – 982 Chapter 33 Fleetwood Mac, the BBC and all that –1980 Chapter 34 Meeting Sarah and wedding number two – 1982 Chapter 35 Family Life: Freddie and Tom and . . . the budgerigars Chapter 36 Black dog and his lost decade Chapter 37 Separation from Sarah and financial disaster Chapter 38 Helen's arrival sparks a personal revival – 1990-1993 Chapter 39 Premature goodbye to a great champion –1994 Chapter 40 Life after James