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By Edward Lenahan<\/p>\n

Among the many reasons to read Michael Cannell\u2019s newest novel \u201cThe Limit,\u201d which accurately reanimates the 1961 Formula One world championship with sharp writing and fastidious research, none is so important or rare as the book\u2019s honest portrayal of frailty in those too often romanticized as superhuman.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no secret that books and movies about auto racing have long suffered from a glut of drivers so ludicrously masculine they could blush the cheeks of Silvio Berlusconi.\u00a0 Off track the fictional aces are a montage of grizzled coveralls, cigarettes and leggy companions.\u00a0 On track they\u2019re shrewd grimaces squinting from helmets and rearview mirrors. Great for the action movie crowd, this hyper-masculinity, but ask a racing fan and they\u2019re liable to choose lawn mowing over watching the quarter collecting skills of Joe Tanto<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, \u201cThe Limit\u201d is a different sort of narrative.<\/p>\n

In a quick-reading 318 pages of novelistic non-fiction, \u201cThe Limit\u201d portrays the lives of three men:\u00a0 Phil Hill, the taciturn, calculating American trying to leave behind a troubled childhood; Wolfgang von Trips, the easy-going risk-it-all German Count in love with life; and Enzo Ferrari, the Machiavellian manufacturer given the title \u201cil Commendatore\u201d by none other than Benito Mussolini.<\/p>\n

The book opens with Phil Hill and shows a young man escaping the unsettled relationship of alcoholic parents by wrenching in garages across Southern California and Europe.\u00a0 Directionless and seemingly talentless he drops out of college and wanders.\u00a0 Then he buys a sports car.<\/p>\n

This, incidentally, is right about where characterization stops in conventional racing narratives. \u00a0Not so, here.<\/p>\n

Cannell shows the reader that, despite numerous early victories, Hill never finds the easy confidence successful drivers are assumed to have in spades.\u00a0 Instead, Hill\u2019s internal struggles with the dangers of racing and his self-perceived inferiority appear each pre-race in the form of vomiting, hand-wringing and meaningless quarrels with mechanics.<\/p>\n

Wolfgang von Trips, meanwhile, seems a kind of foil for Hill.\u00a0 The laid-back only-child of an aristocratic father and a commoner mother, Trips\u2019 only outward concern appears to be how best to manage the family\u2019s moated, forty five room estate and the significant surrounding farmlands.\u00a0 He studies agriculture and hides his dangerous racing exploits from his family. \u00a0Then he starts to win.<\/p>\n

What follows is a fantastic portrayal of two brilliant sports car racing careers during the sport\u2019s most deadly era, and engaging glimpses of the Nurburgring, Mille Miglia, Targa Florio, Carrera Pan Americana, and LeMans.\u00a0 For Cannell, this is groundwork; a context by which the reader might understand the sport and these men as they make the tremendous leap from sports cars Formula One.\u00a0 For readers, these pages are unadulterated bliss.\u00a0 \u00a0Here we not only see racing legends Moss, Fangio, Hawthorne, Collins and others, we hear them through the countless quotes the author has painstakingly researched.\u00a0 We live the friendships, feuds, strengths and weaknesses that fueled racing\u2019s greatest generation.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So good is the story at this point, it\u2019s hard to imagine the tremendous pace can be sustained.\u00a0 Then Enzo Ferrari comes calling and, through a chain of events both fortunate and tragic, Hill and von Trips find themselves teammates piloting a pair of Ferrari\u2019s Type 156 \u2018Sharknose\u2019 racecars for the 1961 Formula One season.\u00a0 The beautiful and dominant cars will give both drivers their best chance to become World Champion, but they won\u2019t ease the tremendous personal questions facing each man, and they won\u2019t make the limit\u2014that intangible line where a speeding racecar slips from control to chaos\u2014any safer to balance upon.\u00a0 The season of speed and death that follows is a must read for anyone, regardless of their knowledge of the 1961 Formula One Championship.<\/p>\n

To its considerable credit, Cannell\u2019s book finely balances on another important limit by portraying the tremendous action of post-war auto racing without overreaching into hyperbole or allegory.\u00a0 The accidents which were both numerous and horrific during the 1950s and 60s are relayed here with a reporter\u2019s matter-of-fact sensibility.\u00a0 The reader feels the weight and emotion of the day not because the events are dramatized but because they are portrayed with exceeding detail.\u00a0 Characters too, are described with such startling honestly their weaknesses are incredibly\u2014 sometimes painfully\u2014clear.\u00a0 The reader will likely to anguish alongside Hill, for example, as he pursues a talent that ulcerates his stomach and von Trips as he knowingly risks ending his family tree for a World Championship.<\/p>\n

This is where \u201cThe Limit\u201d truly shines.\u00a0 For all it\u2019s daring and excitement \u201cThe Limit\u201d never lets the reader forget that auto racing is a very human sport and that these epic men were, after all, just men.<\/p>\n

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The Limit: Life and Death on the 1961 Grand Prix Circuit<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Author: Michael Cannell
\nPublisher: Twelve
\nFormat: Hardcover, 6.2″ x 9.5″, 336 pages
\nISBN-10: 0446554723 ; ISBN-13: 978-0446554725
\nPrice: $25.99<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Edward Lenahan Among the many reasons to read Michael Cannell\u2019s newest novel \u201cThe Limit,\u201d which accurately reanimates the 1961 Formula One world championship with sharp writing and fastidious research, none is so important or rare as the book\u2019s honest portrayal of frailty in those too often romanticized as superhuman. It\u2019s no secret that books and movies about auto racing have long suffered from a glut of drivers so ludicrously masculine they could blush the cheeks of Silvio Berlusconi.\u00a0 Off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":553873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,56,11339],"tags":[2942,17152,60,20226,17940,3297],"class_list":["post-369594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-ferrari","category-product","tag-car-books","tag-car-culture","tag-ferrari","tag-ferrari-featured","tag-product-reviews","tag-products"],"yoast_head":"\nFerrari, Formula One and a Season on The Limit - Book Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Book review of Michael Cannell's "The Limit," the story of Ferrari, Phil Hill and Wolfgang von Trip's race for the 1961 Formula One World Championship.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/ferrari-f1-and-a-season-on-the-limit-book-review\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ferrari, Formula One and a Season on The Limit - 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