Eddie Irvine: Life In The Fast Lane: The Inside Story of the Ferrari Years - Hardcover

Eddie Irvine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091874602 ISBN 13: 9780091874605

Publisher: Ebury Press, 1999

Synopsis

Eddie Irvine is the most colourful, controversial and popular figure in Formula One motor racing and this season has been his finest as he battles with Hakkinen for the 1999 World Championships. This was the season, however, when Schumacher was expected to recapture the trophy for Ferrari, the most glamorous team in Formula One, but instead, it is the cavalier Irvine who has bought glory to the stable of the Prancing Horse. This book will tell the full, inside story on Eddie's years with Ferrari and his part in the resurgence of a team that inspires incredible passion throughout the world. Eddie will write openly of his relationship with Schumacher, an infamous rivalry between two very different characters, and give a fascinating, revealing insight into the inner sancturm of the most enigmatic team in Formula One and characters such as Jean Todt and Jean Bernard. Eddie will also talk frankly of his colleagues and friends like Hakkinen, Coulthard and Damon Hill, of the Formula One lifestyle and the driver's regime. Eddie has reached hero status through his talent and bravery but also because of his playboy lifestyle.

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On occasions I felt some people were reluctant to contradict Michael as they seemed scared of upsetting him and of him leaving the team. I have to say that taking life by the balls is not a great strength of all Europeans. When balls where given out in Ireland and England, they seem to have run out further south in Europe.

International playboy, unreconstructed womaniser, a party animal prowling the champagne circuit of the Formula 1 year, Eddie Irvine has brought much-needed thunder and flash to a sport which has struggled under the yoke of dour, monochrome characters like Nigel Mansell and Michael Schumacher for so long.

>From obscurity to within a whisker of the Drivers Championship in four years at Ferrari, the world's most glamorous and enigmatic team, Irvine's rise to stardom has been meteoric, and when the Northern Irish maverick joins Jaguar on January 1, 2000, the Millennium will be ushering in the most exciting Grand Prix season in living memory.

In his own words, and in interviews with his friends, family and teammates, Irvine and writer Jane Nottage reveal the man behind the myth, treating us to the exclusive inside line on the 1999 season, Ferrari, Schumacher and the glitterdust that trails in the wake of one of the most glamorous sports in the world.

Always outspoken, often outrageous, Irvine is a cavalier in a sport where team politics and sponsor duties have made mumbling Roundheads of so many of his fellow drivers--this is seat of the pants ride through a life lived in the fast lane. --Alex Hankin

Book Description

the full story of Eddie Irvine's years with Ferrari.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0091874602
• ISBN 13: 9780091874605
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232