Take Risk!Overview This is a very different book from the traditional speed merchant genre. Richard Noble has had the ambition all his adult life to see Britain excel in engineering on the world stage and throw off the countrys dismal culture of safety first and risk aversion. His achievements in the highly insecure world of record breaking emphatically demonstrate his commitment to his cause: he brought the Land Speed Record back to Britain in 1983 when he

“This book is a pleasure… most enjoyable

it explains how quattros collected four world rally championships

More speed records in numerous classes with Goldie Gardner’s Railton-revised MG EX

Porsche 908s and 917s

Illustration: 60 photographs

from 1980 to 2004

weight-saving measures

to an absolute must-buy for any serious fan of F1

he immediately proved himself a winner in touring cars and single-seaters

which took Nelson Piquet to two drivers’ titles (1981 and 1983)

He wrote this book in collaboration with Lars Krone

’ In a remarkable first book