Archive for Items Categorized 'Racing, Rally', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Inside IMSA’s Legendary GTP Race Cars: The Prototype Experience
by J. Martin & M. Fuller
Taking a page out of the anything-goes Can-Am playbook, the GT Prototype racing series was inaugurated in 1981 to reinvigorate the International Motor Sports Association which itself had been founded, in 1969, as an answer to another series’ shortcomings, the SCCA.
Grand Prix Ferrari: The Years of Enzo Ferrari’s Power, 1948–1980
by Anthony Pritchard
Not to be confused with an earlier book of the same title and by the same author, this posthumously published tome is an entirely revamped take on a subject that, if anything, has become more complex since then.
Velocity: Heroes of American Auto Racing
by Pete Lyons
Twelve men that made a difference—for twelve months in which YOU will make a difference, right? Be inspired, learn something, look at pretty pictures. Go.
Turning Silver into Gold/Aus Silber wird Gold – 2014
by Hartmut Lehbrink
The silver Mercedes racers won the gold in 2014, the first time the works team won F1 top honors ever. The team won a whole bunch of other awards too so there was much to celebrate, and this is the official M-B “party book”—in more ways than one.
The Early Laps of Stock Car Racing
by Betty Boles Ellison
A rather more critical—and thus most necessary—look at what has grown into a megasport for the masses whose business dealings and philosophy continue to be dominated by basically one family.
Der Typ 650
by Peter Kirchberg
A mystery racecar, long thought to be an offspring of the fabled Silver Arrows and certainly presented as such by an unscrupulous broker working for a government keen on drumming up hard currency. Riveting stuff. If you don’t read German: fantastic photos.
Roar From the Sixties: American Championship Racing
by Dick Wallen; Michael Jordan editor
Everything changed during that decade. In the twenty years since it was first published, this book has not been bettered. Good thing it’s still in print.
The First American Grand Prix: The Savannah Auto Races, 1908–1911
by Tanya A. Bailey
Savannah, Georgia may be a hotbed for many things, but racing?
International participants declared the course America’s greatest and the author is certainly its greatest fan.
Ferrari: 2015 Official Scuderia Ferrari Calendar
The 2014 Formula 1 season from a Ferrari point of view as captured by half a dozen world-class photographers.
Francis Howe, Motor Racing Man Par Excellence
by Tim May with Adam Ferrington
The “Gentleman Racer” earned this nickname for a reason—and not just because he was an aristocrat. And Earl Howe did a lot more than race well; some of his ideas have had a lasting impact even until today.
Fabulous Fifties: American Championship Racing
by Dick Wallen et al
An important book about an important time in racing. That sort of racing has long since stopped but this 20-year-old book is still in print! Don’t miss it.
Riverside Raceway: Palace of Speed
by Dick Wallen; by Michael Jordan (editor)
For 32 years, pretty much anybody who was anybody raced pretty much anything on this relatively dangerous course. Located not too far from Hollywood means you may well have seen it on TV shows or in movies.
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