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

How F1 Works: The Sport Explained

by Steve Rendle

Apparently 80 million people globally are watching each race on TV. Even if they know all about the cars and the drivers and teams, did you realize that even the size of the trophies and the color of the podium carpet are regulated? Everything is, and where would you look that up? Here.

Brooklands Belles: The Women Racers Who Took on The Men

by T.J. Hartwell

It took decades to break down the barriers barring women from competing in early motorsports on equal terms with men. Brooklands was the world’s first purpose built motor-racing circuit so if not here, where?

Formula 1’s Unsung Pioneers

The Story of the British Racing Partnership and How it Launched Motorsport into the Modern Era

by Ian Wagstaff

Best known for its association with Stirling Moss but for the worst reason, there are other factors noteworthy about BRP such as being the first fully sponsored F1 team.

20 Years of GT3 Racing, the Story of the World’s Leading GT Sportscar Category

by Gary Watkins  

The history of motorsports is rife with racing series that didn’t last because they couldn’t adapt, or had too narrow a focus, or ran out of participants and money, or were too blatantly self-serving. GT3, now over 20 years old, seems to have all the right answers.

Games Without Frontiers: Volume 1, 1966–1974

Matra – Alpine – Ligier – Simca – Renault – Alpine

by Stuart Ager

You can deduce from the cover illustration that this will be one unusual story. This book goes into a lot of behind-the-scenes material—and will require two more volumes to button it all up.

Your Mom Races Rally: Motherhood, Motorsports and the Revolution of Fun

by Kelly Conroy

This is not a hardcore car book. It’s about the memoirist’s voyage of personal discovery that leads her to unexpectedly becoming a rally driver.

Getting into Racing, A Beginner’s Guide to Circuit Racing

by Pierre Martins

A practical beginner’s guide aimed at aspiring racers, track day enthusiasts, and anyone who has ever wondered what it really takes to get involved in motorsport: cost, time, politics, logistics. And risks.

Deadliest Decade: How Speed, Money, and Technology Transformed Auto Racing

by Preston Lerner

Can you guess which decade this book will be about? 1964 to 1973. But it really reaches farther. Bad things are allowed to happen because good things are expensive and inconvenient. Then critical mass is reached. It was ever thus.

Against All the Others: Porsche’s Racing History, Volume 2 – 1969

by Randy Leffingwell

This book takes us into the era of the mighty 917. Nothing about that car was simple and given its teething problems, success was almost a surprise—leading to absolute domination, leading to more restrictive technical regs, leading to … the end. But other Porsches soldiered on.

CTX 500, Last Train to Cockfosters

by David Brodie

The cover of this memoir looks harmless enough. If the author’s name means anything to you, you know it won’t be.

Grand Prix Ford: Ford, Cosworth and the DFV

by Graham Robson

Ford bankrolled the Double Four Valve. Big money, big resources, big wins. Also big friction, and not in a technical sense. This is a reprint of a 2015 title, now at a lower price. Big win.

American Road Racing 1948–1950, The Sport Revived

by Joel E. Finn

Unshackled from the worries and restrictions of the war years, organized motorsports quickly regained its foothold in the US. In fact, it grew so quickly that racers and organizers struggled to keep up with the rapid changes, not least the transition from amateurs to professionals.

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