WHAT THE PRESS SAY

Motor Sport,
Editor – Damien Smith, Sept 2005
‘’..Who needs yet another offering purporting to be ‘the complete and definitive illustrated book of grand prix motor racing’? But from a wasteland of grubby, badly written, poorly subbed potboilers emerge this magnificent book, its stunning images accompanying the incomparable Hughes
…The photography comes from the archives of Keith Sutton, much of which he brought in. There’s some gorgeous stuff – and there’s also some shocking stuff. The full page shot of Lorenzo Bandini’s fatal accident at Monaco in 1967 makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
This publication should keep you on a high for a while.’’

THE CITIZEN MOTORING and
DURBAN AUTO DEALER (South Africa), February 2007
"...the best F1 book this writer has ever reviewed."

 

AUTOCAR,
This Week’s Essential, 3 August 2005 (5 star review)
‘’...The writing is pithy, passionate and evocative; the photography and picture selection an astonishing mix of the poignant, amusing and downright hair-raising; the captioning at turns expert, dryly amusing and startlingly poignant – makes the whole book hang together. In short, it’s brilliant. If you only buy one book this year, make it this one.’’

ITV,
TED KRAVITZ, 23 August 2005
‘’…As a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book, Speed Addicts by Mark, would be a smart thing to have lying around any motor sport fan’s living room. Its 300 plus pages are filled with a generous quantity of photos from the Sutton Archive that bring the history of the racing world to life. …Hughes provides incisive texts that probe under the skins and into the minds of these fragile—physically and often psychologically- racing drivers. …The best thing about speed addicts is that it contains pictures that you, a keen follower of motor sport, will have never seen before.’’

 

GQ Magazine,
Paul Wilson, October 2005
‘’ ‘Racing is life,’ said French Grand Prix legend Jean Behra. ‘Everything else is just waiting.’ Fortunately for motor racing fans, the photographic contributors to Speed Addicts spent the last 50 years capturing both to produce this stunning record of the most glamorous sport on earth. This special edition of a very special book weighs in at a heavy-weight £400, but like the highly-paid drivers celebrated within its pages, it’s worth every penny.’’