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Derek Daly: Serial Survivor

by Derek Daly

The rollercoaster life of a race driver, writer, broadcaster, racing advisor and businessman, told without flinching. That the reader will often flinch is another matter, and a mark of the authenticity of this autobiography.

Lotus Europa, Colin Chapman’s Mid-Engined Masterpiece (Reprint)

by Matthew Vale

If you thought the original Europa was produced in small numbers, consider that the “modern” one forty years later topped out at only 490 units. This book deals with the former, and for the second time—it is a reprint.

F1 Racing: Drive – The Secrets to Formula One Success

by Rachel Brookes

Written by a TV presenter and pit lane reporter this book examines the obvious question of why some win and some don’t. Drivers, team bosses, and others from all corners of the sport take a stab at answering it.

Adrian Newey: An Illustrated Biography of F1’s Greatest Designer

by Frank Hopkinson

Newey designs have won 12 Constructors’ and 14 Drivers’ titles and 223 Grands Prix between 1991 and 2024. Hence the title of this book, which is a quick overview of a busy career that is still in full flourish.

Special Brew, The Story of the Southern African Formula One and Libre Specials

by Robert Young

F1 may return to Kyalami in 2027. How many South African race drivers can you name? Or, to broaden the scope, how many drivers who raced in South Africa, Rhodesia, Portuguese Mozambique? And let’s add cars to that. Aha. You need a book.

Lando Norris: Road to World Champion

by Nate Saunders

The fingerprints on his 2025 championship trophy haven’t been polished off—and already there’s a book! Not a bio but a race-by-race recap of a nail biter of a season.

It’s… A… New Track Record!

by Rick Shaffer

That phrase was uttered so often it became the track announcer’s trademark expression, especially during the decade presented here. The era saw extraordinary advances in car, engine and tire design—and also money sloshing around the sport, which financed even more advances.

Dragster Genesis: The Formative Years of Fearsome Acceleration

by Barry John

No place to hide: two cars, side by side. Run a quarter mile. One wins. As a kid the author studied Hot Rod magazine, later he studied art at college. Youth well spent, apparently, because this book combines both interests.

Great Auclum National Speed Hill Climb 1938–1974

by Stephen R. Lovegrove

Situated on a private estate, this only 440-yard-long course was short in length but long in motorsports impact and career-making—also intensity if not all-out danger.

Wheelbase II – The Tunisian Operation

by Michael Kliebenstein

This is a work of fiction—written by a real-life car dealer/collector—involving shady deals, organized crime and, obviously, classic cars.

F1 Racing Confidential: Inside Stories from the World of Formula One

by Giles Richards

Interviews with nineteen men and women working at every level of F1 shine a light on the jobs of people you don’t normally read about but also on their usually fascinating journeys there.

F1 Racing: The Ultimate Companion

by Bruce Jones

How many books with titles like this one do you have already?? But look who wrote it! And it’s oddly inexpensive. Unusual photos too. C’mon. Take a look already.

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