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Racing Legends: Oscar Piastri

101 Facts about Formula One
By Maurice Hamilton
Series: Racing Legends
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Race through fun facts, stats and stories about your favourite drivers with F1 expert, Maurice Hamilton. Illustrated throughout by Cat Sims. Discover how Oscar Piastri became a racing legend in this fun, illustrated, fact-filled book! Read about his wins, losses and find out about the history... Read More
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Everything you need to know about the awesome Australian racing legend - Oscar Piastri!

Everything you need to know about the awesome Australian racing legend - Oscar Piastri!

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Race through fun facts, stats and stories about your favourite drivers with F1 expert, Maurice Hamilton. Illustrated throughout by Cat Sims. Discover how Oscar Piastri became a racing legend in this fun, illustrated, fact-filled book! Read about his wins, losses and find out about the history of Formula One. Easy to read and fun to share, Racing Legends: Oscar Piastri is perfect for fast and curious minds, whatever their reading ability. Check out the rest of the Racing Legends series for more books to speed through!

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035057542

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 January 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Cat Sims
  • Illustrated by Cat Sims

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 11.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 132g

Pages: 176

Collections

Children's Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Maurice Hamilton Series: Racing Legends

About the Author

Maurice Hamilton, the award-winning author of more than thirty books about motor sports including the Racing Legends series, has attended over 500 Grands Prix around the world. He has been a commentator on F1 races for BBC Radio 5 Live for twenty years, and has written about F1 for newspapers and magazines worldwide for decades. Combining her love of comics with a passion for social equality, Cat Sims has pursued her dream career as an artist and illustrator for the past decade. She has worked on a huge range of commercial and personal projects for clients including The New Yorker, Jacobin, Adidas, BBC and many more.

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