I wonder if any drivers or teams benefitted from reading this book and gained additional sponsorship? it would be nice to know and would certainly be an endorsement. A few years ago I went along to an evening with Perry McCarthy, his technique was to impersonate James Hunt on the phone to directors of large companies telling them of his young protégé and asking for a meeting to which they agreed as they though they would be meeting James Hunt, when Perry attended alone and told the director James wasn't able to attend the meeting they usually kicked him out. 10/10 for effort though.....
Many of us will have read his book, Flat out, flat broke. It's an amusing read, written by a possibly nice, but it seems to me hopelessly delusional bloke, who didn't achieve very much, and being brutally honest, never really looked as if he might have the necessary qualities in him. I wouldn't wish him any ill, but I think that he's well out of it while he still has working limbs. Perry might think differently, but there's nothing in the book that suggests that he'd have achieved much more, even with limitless funds at his disposal. When he gave up, potential sponsors everywhere probably breathed a large sigh of relief. It's obviously very hard going, but there are inspirational drivers around like Damon Hill, who reached the top without very much in the way of sponsorship, which usually amounts to wasting large sums of other peoples' money. We all know that it's a very expensive business, but drivers with real talent do get noticed, and that's often enough for them to progress. There's a lot of luck involved, knowing the right people, and being in the right place at the right time etc. Stroll's dad's money has helped him up to a point but if he keeps on underperforming, it won't help him in the longer term.
I think Lang used three different engines at one meeting.
