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Alwin Springer – Racing With Porsche in North America

by Alwin Springer with Wilfried Müller

From his days as journeyman mechanic to cofounding a legendary Porsche tuning company to working for Porsche directly, Springer has led Porsche to many of its most significant milestones in North America. He may be retired but he’s not done!

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.

The Formula One Record Book

by Thompson, Rabagliati, Sheldon

Published by the Formula One Register which was established in 1966 to address the issue of incomplete factual information available in English-language sources. Nothing about this was easy, but they’re still at it and in fact branched out to cover a wider range of racing.

Class of ’99: Triumph and Tragedy in the 1999 Indy Car Series

by John Oreovicz

That one year was a bleak one for fans of that series, and October especially so because one man died, a driver, who could have turned the whole thing around. Combining contemporary reporting and new interviews, this book examines multiple storylines.

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.

Driven

by Susie Wolff

British Woman Kart Racing Driver of the Year. Formula E Team Principal. Head of the F1 Academy. An MBE for services to Women in Sport. Do you need more reasons to want to read this bio??

Luca: Seeing Red

presented by Chris Harris

Is this documentary film about a key Ferrari leader a biopic or a bromance? In its own words it’s a love letter to the greatest car boss ever. Watch it anyway—there’s good archival footage. And it’s well lit. Being a film, this matters.

Lella Lombardi – The Tigress of Turin, Her Authorised Biography

by Jon Saltinstall

When tearing around town as a delivery driver for the family butcher shop wasn’t enough she took up karting and let her competitive spirit take her into pro-level racing. The arc of her career changed perceptions of women in racing.

Ferrari: The Monopostos of 1948–52

by John Starkey

Enzo Ferrari wants to go back racing but the war has scattered the workforce, materials are in short supply, and spare money even more so. But Ferrari became a dominant player, so the right things must have happened. This book shines a light on some of them.

Whitney Straight – Racing Driver, War Hero, Industrialist

by Paul Kenny

Born into a prominent family, he hated being referred to as the “Boy Millionaire Race Track Idol”—but he was all that and more, and on his own merits. He would have been more still if he hadn’t died young, at 66. And then this fine book would have had to be even longer!

Lords of Speed: The Great Drivers of Formula 1

by Roberto Gurian

The obvious expectation would be that this book is about all-conquering race winners. Some of them indeed are but they’re in this book because they’re “great” for other reasons. Forty-six bios, some will surprise, all will give you something to think about.

John, George and the HWMs: The First Racing Team to Fly the Flag for Britain

by Simon Taylor

Underdogs. One a mechanical engineer, the other almost a household name as a quite good race driver. England is picking itself up after the war so they stood up a race team—because they could and because no one else was. They did well, but ask people today about “HWM” . . .

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