The Formula One World Championship is the most exciting and glamorous competition in the world today. The racers and their teams reel from venue to venue leaving a trail of high-octane fuel around the circuits and spilt champagne over the rostrums. Over eight months and 17 Grand Prix races some of the fastest and most exciting of the world's drivers risk life and limb in their pursuit of the Ultimate automotive trophy: the Formula One Championship. This exciting and enthralling book, copiously illustrated with the faces, places and events of F1, gives a circuit-by-circuit guide to each race, with details of last year's race for comparison. Profiles of the great drivers past and present are included, along with the personalities who the driving forces behind the sport, to make this the essential companion to Formula One.