Archive for Items Categorized 'Racing, Rally', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

Formula 1 75 Years: At Speed with the World’s Greatest Motorsport

by Codling, Roberts, and Mann

If you take 1950 to be the start of F1 as we know it then 2025 is the 75th anniversary, and this is a fine book to paint a pretty full picture. If you count differently, because you know better, this is still a fine book, because of the photos.

Early Funny Cars, 1964–1975

by Lou Hart

Does your car have 10,000 horses under the hood? Funny Cars are pretty serious machinery in terms of engineering parameters, and also aerodynamics.

IMSA 1990–1999: The Turbulent Years of American Sports Car Racing

by Raffauf, Raffauf, Silbermann & Ingram

Read the book prior to this one for the backstory why/how IMSA became “The World’s Greatest Sports Car Racing Series.” The decade examined here shows how much went then wrong. Gripping stuff, written by people who were there.

Drag Racing’s Rebels, How the AHRA Changed Quarter-Mile Competition

by Doug Boyce

Drag racing in all its many forms is inherently a sport that attracts people who yearn to color outside the lines. Still, a sport needs rules. Rules require agreement, compromise—or ruthless power grabs.

Forever Young: Six Lost Talents of Motor Racing

by Wagstaff, Marriott, Saltinstall & Banks

A tribute to drivers who were on their way to a promising career but died doing what they loved before seeing it fully blossom.

Drag Racing in the 1960s: The Evolution in Race Car Technology

by Doug Boyce

One of drag racing’s finest and most colorful periods because the NHRA’s fuel ban that began in 1957 and lasted until 1964 accelerated the development of supercharging. Gasser wars, cam wars, plastic fantastic—lots of words to add to your vocabulary.

Formula One The Circuits: Then and Now

by Frank Hopkinson

Some race tracks survive for long times but not usually in the exact same layout. Here, vintage images are juxtaposed with modern ones to show those changes, often enough brought about by safety concerns and the ever-rising capabilities of race cars.

My Dad Raced One of Those: The Joys of Classic Motorsport 

by Alan Anderson

The briefest of looks at fifty of the most successful classic race and rally cars on the British scene from the 1950s to the 1990s.

Ferrari in F1

by Peter Nygaard

No team has competed in F1 for longer, had more poles, earned more points, has more World Championship titles and GP victories. This book covers 1950–2024 and explains not so much the why but the what and who. But the real star are the hundreds of photos, many/most new to the published record.

Alfa Romeo Cars in Motorsport since 1945

by Peter Collins

Since 1913, Alfa Romeo has competed successfully in many types of motorsport, both as a a constructor and an engine supplier. Containing more photos than pages, this book looks at everything that happened since 1945.

Ferrari in America: Luigi Chinetti and the North American Racing Team

by Michael T. Lynch

A topic essential to the history of Ferrari in America and, given the enormity of that market, to the marque as a whole, both in regards to motorsports presence and road car brand value.

Joe of All Trades, From a Formula 5000 Championship to an Island Paradise 

by Joe Wright with Gordon Campbell

During the 1960s and 1970s it was not uncommon to find New Zealand race mechanics among all the top racing teams around the world. Wright was one of the most successful and this is his autobiography.

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