Mon Ami Mate 2017 Reprint

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Mon Ami Mate is Chris Nixon's double-biography of two of Britain's finest racing drivers of the 1950s, Mike Hawthorn and Peter Collins, who formed a remarkable friendship during their two seasons together at Scuderia Ferrari. With the help of dozens of people who knew them, Nixon has traced the lives of the two remarkable men from childhood, through their racing careers to their untimely deaths, examining along the way their relationships with families, friends and team-mates, and also their passions for boats, planes and girls. Nixon describes in detail Mike's early success with Scuderia Ferrari; the political row caused by his failure to do National Service and his controversial role in the 1955 Le Mans disaster. He also reveals for the very first time the existence of his illegitimate son (born in France in 1954) and recounts the full, almost bizarre story of his tragic death in a roa