Book Review: “Racing Legends” by Maurice Hamilton

“Racing Legends” Series

by Maurice Hamilton 

Illustrated by Cat Sims

Oscar Piastri - ISBN 9781035057542

Lando Norris - ISBN 9781035043927

RRP - £6.99

Publisher - Macmillan Children’s Books

Reading Age - 7 to 9 years

Reviewed by Woody H.

Avid reader Woody recently got in touch with ROADSTER! to share his review of two books from the Racing Legends series of children’s books, by F1 commentator and award-winning motorsport author, Maurice Hamilton.

The Racing Legends series promises children fun facts, stats and stories about their favourite F1 racing drivers. What did Woody think?

What did you like?

I really liked all of the pictures. The were cool and realistic and looked like they were from a comic.

What ones did you like most?

The big picture of the remote control cars, the people working at the track and the actual tracks. I liked the Silverstone one because I’ve been there, but I can’t remember where I sat.

The one of how close a driver’s bum is to the track was cool, and we pretended to be racing drivers by copying how he was sat in the picture.

What did you learn from the books?

I didn’t know that drivers had to do a pit stop in each race or how the points worked. I was really surprised that the driver would lose their position in the race because they would lose 20-30 seconds in the pits. I also didn’t realise how many people work on the car in a stop.

A fact that amazed me was that there can be as many as 1000 people working for an F1 team but that only about 60 can go to the race!

I was surprised that Norris was four when he started on a quadbike and that he didn’t pass his driving test the first time.

What was your favourite section?

I liked where it talked about designing your own track. I drew a track on a big piece of cardboard and raced cars around it.

Would you recommend this book to other children?

I would recommend it because it has lots of interesting facts and teaches me things that I didn’t know before.

How would you rate the books out of five?

FIVE out of FIVE as they are perfect!