December 15, 2011

2011 Motor Press Guild Awards Announced

The Motor Press Guild announced on 12/14 its 2011 recipients of the Dean Batchelor Award. “Elva” won in the books category.

December 14, 2011

New McLaren Books from Coterie Press

Coterie Press is offering an expanded third edition of McLaren, The Cars which now goes up to 2012 and includes the 2011 MP4-26 F1 car, as well as the new MP4-12C supercar that will be in the hands of the first lucky customers in 2012. The new book is cheaper ($49.95) than the 2009 edition we reviewed here!

A companion book is McLaren, The Wins covers F1, F2, F3, F A/5000, Indycars, Can-Am, Interseries, and Le Mans from 1964 until 2011. $79.95

November 11, 2011

New & Improved Website!

Today, a new and improved SpeedReaders website is going live. It is completely redesigned and has much-enhanced functionality.

Many of our US readers will be familiar with the Public Radio concept: no cost to the public — a minimum of advertising — made possible by the support of the people who use the service.

More and more, websites with rich, original content are switching to a fee-based subscription model. We don’t want to go there—yet. (Nor do we want to engage in the dreaded but inevitable Public Radio-like fundraisers!) YOU can help keep what we do here free of cost to the user, aka you, by giving the DONATE button on the left margin a workout!

Feel the pull of its soft, orange glow . . . C’mon, do it! You know you want to! It’s the right thing!

Countless hours are spent on doing the reviews and upkeep of the website. While you sleep the sleep of the righteous, we toil over piles of books and ponder the mysteries of the universe. You come to SpeedReaders for quality content, not commerce—join us in keeping it that way, won’t you?

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November 6, 2011

Awards for Racemaker Press

Racemaker Press Wins This Year’s Cugnot and Ingersoll Awards

Finn’s Caribbean Capers and O’Keefe Winner’s Database Recognized by SAH

Racemaker Press took home two coveted awards from the Society of Automotive Historians annual banquet in Hershey this year, recognizing two of the independent firm’s 2010 published works.

Joel Finn’s Caribbean Capers: The Cuban Grand Prix Races of 1957, 1958 & 1960 , published by Racemaker Press in collaboration with Garnet Hill Publishing, won the Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot Award for Outstanding Book of 2010, and the E.P. Ingersoll Award for Excellence in Presentation of Automotive History in Nonprint media was awarded to the O’Keefe Winners Database: A Searchable Comprehensive Digital Database of Motor Racing Events 1895-2010, by James O’Keefe

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October 12, 2011