Ed Heuvink, author of the very interesting book about the Swiss racing team Scuderia Filipinetti, brings out his latest work about the most famous Swiss race driver ever: Jo ‘Seppi’ Siffert.

The first question I asked myself was why did no Swiss author ever write such a book? Why is it a motor enthusiast from Holland?
The introduction by the author himself says: He discovered motorsports in the mid 60s and he quickly became a fan of Jo Siffert. He met Jo Siffert several times between 1969 and 1971. He collected everything he found about Joseph Siffert. One day a friend of Ed Heuvink (Reinhard Klein) asked him whether he would write the text for one of his photo book about Jo Siffert: the book was born.

The book itself is not only based on the material Ed collected, he actively started to meet important persons with a strong relation to Joseph Siffert and his family: Philippe Siffert (son of Jo), many drivers that drove with or against him, Adriano Cimarosti (a well known journalist who covered the full history of Siffert in the 60s) and many others.

The book contains more than 300 photos and the text is always available in 3 languages. The paper quality is very nice and the book has a good size (a bit larger than A4).

For people who have some racing books at home about the Swiss motorsports history (like “Die Aussenseiter”), this is certainly a very very nice addition to their collection. You really get to know Jo Siffert from all his aspects, starting with a photo as a Communion child…