When one of motorsport media’s most respected voices takes the time to tell your story back to you — and does it with the kind of passion and understanding that reminds you why you wrote it in the first place — you stop and pay attention.
Mark Cipolloni and the team at AutoRacing1.com published a feature on Game Changer that goes far beyond a typical book review. Cipolloni traces the arc of the 1968 season with the instincts of someone who understands that this wasn’t just a year of racing — it was a year of reckoning. His piece captures the collision of innovation and tragedy that defined the season, from the arrival of the Cosworth DFV engine to the devastating losses that left the paddock in mourning. He frames the book as the context that a sixteen-year-old boy standing in the Brands Hatch grandstands couldn’t possibly have known he was missing.
What struck me most was how Cipolloni understood that Game Changer isn’t a technical manual or a race-by-race chronology. He recognized it for what I always intended it to be — a human story about genius and grief, about courage and fear, about a sport that stared into the worst of itself and decided to keep going anyway.
The article also includes rare historical photos and the Fred Gamble letter about the true cause of Jim Clark’s fatal crash — details that matter deeply to anyone who cares about getting the history right.
I’m humbled and grateful that AutoRacing1.com saw fit to give Game Changer this kind of attention. To be featured alongside the daily coverage of Formula 1, IndyCar, and the broader motorsport world — by people who live and breathe this sport every single day — is an honor I don’t take lightly. Thank you, Mark. Thank you, AR1.
— Brian C. Mackey