The Bookworm Critique
Reviewing "The Bugatti Queen: In Search of a Motor-Racing Legend" by Miranda Seymour
Things I Love About Motorsport, Part 42: The Footnotes.
I don't know why I love footnotes so much. A lot of people I know just let them whoosh by without a moment's thought, but I have to read every single one. (It's probably a hangover from studying history at uni).
Motor racing has a deliciously complex past lives, manufacturers, races, tracks and careers weave in and out of each other like mopeds on an Italian street, and are further tangled when outside forces like politics come into the mix. It's the type of stuff that takes a lifetime to really get your head around (which is why nobody has really done it) and it's also a happy hunting ground for footnote freaks like me. There are tangents everywhere.
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