Lights Out, Full Throttle is the hilarious account of life in the F1 pit
lane from two legends of the sport, Damon Hill and Johnny Herbert.Damon
and Johnny here. Motorsport's answer to Ant and Dec, just a lot more
comprehensible and, all in all, a wee bit taller. Between us we have
about 100 years' experience of driving cars quickly and have competed in
261 Grand Prix spawning 25 wins, 49 podiums, one World Championship and
458 championship points. We even have a win at Le Mans to our names, as
well as two smashed ankles, a broken arm, a broken wrist, a broken leg,
about sixty broken ribs, a pierced upper thigh that missed Johnny's twig
and berries by millimetres, and a bruised ego or three.Basically, we're
two middle-aged men who are both what you might call physically
compromised. That said, contrary to popular belief, we still have a
modicum of bladder control and can talk Formula 1 with the best of them.
Which brings us to our book. Despite its immense popularity, when it
comes to things like humour and absurdity, Formula 1 is not exactly a
ride on the big dipper and in that respect it hasn't buttered our
parsnips for decades. Well, nil desperandum boys and girls because we,
Damon Graham Devereux Hill, OBE, and John Paul Herbert, No BE, are here
to put the F back into Formula 1 by ditching aerodynamics, clean air and
tyre degradation in favour of honest, forthright opinions and apocryphal
stories involving automotive derring-do. And, derring-don't!
