Archive for Items Categorized 'Racing, Rally', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Tom Pryce: Memories of a Welsh F1 Star by Those Who Knew Him
by Darren Banks and Kevin Guthrie
The Welsh Dragon was active in F1 only a few years and was thought to have the makings of a future world champion, and then a grotesquely bizarre chain of events claimed his life on the track. He was missed then, and as this book shows, is more so now.
Bonneville Salt Flats
by “Landspeed” Louise Ann Noeth
Each year between August and September, Bonneville Speedway is buzzing with activity as cars, trucks, and motorcycles go after land speed records or merely a bumpy, really fast joyride. But the surface is never the same twice, and the salt pan is getting thinner all the time.
The Dynamics of the Race Car
by Danny Nowlan
Theories, concepts, and equations explore the underpinnings of car handling and speed. The book also teaches how to analyze setup data and driver performance.
Lights Out, Full Throttle
by Johnny Herbert and Damon Hill
Reflections on pro racing by two guys who were there and who nowadays ply their trade as TV commentators. They have opinions, no surprise, and they are all over the place.
Don “The Snake” Prudhomme, My Life Beyond the 1320
by Don Prudhomme with Elana Scherr
There’s nothing funny about a Funny Car cracking 250 mph. Prudhomme was the first to do that, and a host of other things. After almost five decades in motorsports he’s got stories to tell, and not just about racing!
Chris Pook & The History of The Long Beach GP
by Gordon Kirby
The Long Beach GP is pretty much the template for modern-era professional racing on city streets. It had a 45-year run, curtailed only by Covid. This book by its promotor is as attention-holding and fast-paced a read as his life has been.
Peter Falk, 33 Years of Porsche Rennsport and Development
by Peter Falk and Wilfried Müller
As Porsche’s most successful head of motorsports, Falk made enormous contributions—that the world at large rarely heard about. “Falk talks . . . at last” is how the book begins and right out of the gate tickles the imagination and sets the breezy tone for what is to follow.
Tony Bettenhausen & Sons: An American Racing Family Album
by Gordon Kirby
In all walks of life one finds families in which several generations engage in the same activity. Over several decades and different series the Bettenhausens were almost uncommonly successful in auto racing but also paid an uncommonly heavy price in that only one of the four survived.
Gentleman Heroes
by Giles Chapman with Clare Hay
If there is such a thing as “the most recognizable Bentley,” this may be the one. It didn’t win a lot, it didn’t hold up very well, but it played a singular and important role. And its price today is in the stratosphere.
The Rise and Fall of the French Alpine Rally
by Martin Pfundner
How better to shake out cars—and impress the buying public—than by flogging them up and down hairy mountain passes. The French took their time embracing it but once they did, they stuck with it. Finally, here’s a proper book in English.
Stars & Sportcars
by Marianne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
Racing photos, sure, but a whole lot more. Here are photos by someone who knew how to “see”—and not just with the eye.
The Fred Opert Story
by Peter R. Hill
If your team’s alumni include, inter alios, Keke Rosberg, Didier Pironi, Tom Pryce, Patrick Tambay and Alan Jones, you really deserve a biography of your own. And now, thanks to Peter Hill, Fred Opert finally has one.
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