Review: "Formula 1 in Camera 1970-79, Vol. 2"

Arguably, the '70s were the last years of the "traditional" F1, when sportsmen and privateers could still compete, when non-championship races filled in the schedule, and, unfortunately, when death was still lurking constantly. The large grids that resulted made for a very colorful scene, and this book shows more of that aspect of F1 than the first '70s volume in the series. You'll see drivers, cars and teams that you either have never heard of or have long forgotten.

Even the major teams surprised with unique color schemes; I remembered the Lowenbrau McLarens, but I never saw a Lotus team car in Imperial International colors! There are many such gems in this book, and if you have volume 1, you definitely need this volume as well.

My only criticism is common to the series: the captions for each two-page spread are often not quite in logical order, and the arrows that point to each photo are rather small. But that's not a big point, and the captions are, in fact, quite informative, almost to excess. (You frequently have to read to the end of a long caption just to find out the identity of the car and driver in the photo.)

I don't know if Mr. Parker has enough material to do second volumes of the other decades in this series, but if he does, those books might be equally delightful!