There’s something different about being reviewed outside the motorsport world. When a respected literary publication evaluates your book not on how well you know the sport, but on how well you wrote about it — that’s a different test entirely. And one I wasn’t sure I’d pass.
Literary Titan, an organization of professional editors, writers, and professors, published their review of Game Changer and awarded it four out of five stars. To say I’m honored doesn’t quite cover it.
What moved me most was how carefully they read the book. The reviewer understood that Game Changer isn’t just a racing history — it’s about how different forces converged in a single season to permanently reshape a sport. They noted how the book treats sponsorship, aerodynamics, the Ford Cosworth engine, and the devastating human cost of 1968 not as separate chapters but as interconnected currents that couldn’t be understood in isolation. They recognized the personal frame — a sixteen-year-old boy at Brands Hatch, watching history unfold without knowing what he was watching — and understood why that perspective matters.
The review praised the handling of Jim Clark’s death at Hockenheim as the emotional heart of the book, and described Graham Hill’s championship as one of the most affecting threads in the narrative. They called the book’s treatment of the Gold Leaf Lotus livery change — the moment British racing green gave way to commercial sponsorship — almost like a moral weather change. That’s exactly the tension I was trying to capture.
Literary Titan concluded that Game Changer honors both the ingenuity and the cost of a transformative year, and recommended it to Formula One fans, motorsport history readers, and anyone interested in how a sport changes when money, technology, grief, and courage all arrive at the same corner at once. I couldn’t ask for a more thoughtful reading of what I tried to do.
To the team at Literary Titan — thank you for taking this book seriously as a piece of writing, not just a piece of motorsport. That recognition means more than you know.
— Brian C. Mackey