Hartmut Lebrink has covered Formula 1 racing over six decades and new many of the personalities featured personally. His succinct biographies vividly bring to life the lives, and on many occasions, the deaths of this band of daredevils who made up the Grand Prix circus.

For just over a decade, Dr Benno Muller, the Doctor from Freiburg, took himself to nearby racing circuits to capture of the faces of racing drivers of the day. The Carrs they raced held no interest tfor him. He was only concerned with expressions of the elite group of men who risked their lives every time they went onto the track.

Jörg-Thomas Födisch is a notable author who has produced numerous books on the German nobleman Count Graf Berge Wolfgang von Trips, who lost his life at the 1961 Italian Grand Prix when he was on the cusp of becoming that year's World Champion. Mr Fodisch holds the photographic archive of the late Benno Müller