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Tyler Alexander: A Life and Times with McLaren

by Tyler Alexander

From mechanic to team boss, the author chronicles his life at a seminal team in an ever-changing sport.

Total Performers: Ford Drag Racing in the 1960s

by Charles R. Morris

If you think a Velvet Brute is an umbrella drink you’d better read this book, quick. Written by someone who drove those cars in that decade the book offers an authentic look at a very unusual era marked, not least, by a Chevy v Ford debate on full boil.

Mid-Atlantic American Sports Car Races 1953–1962

by Terry O’Neil

At long last here’s another missing piece to the puzzle that is the not undramatic and certainly not painless shift from amateur to pro racing in the US.

Sports Car Racing in the South: Texas to Florida, 1961–1962

by Willem Oosthoek with Photography by Bob Jackson

If you’re a car person you’ve heard of Stuttgart. How about Stuttgart, Arkansas? Geneva, Florida? Opa Locka? Opelousas? Even if you have, you’ve probably long forgotten who raced what where. No more!

Where the Writer Meets the Road

by Sam Posey

Among this race driver’s trophies is an Emmy for sports writing and this anthology is a good testament to Posey’s abilities behind the pen. Now in his seventies, he’s been around, literally and figuratively.

The Daily Mirror World Cup Rally 40: The World’s Toughest Rally in Retrospect

by Graham Robson

Any time you need to carry oxygen in a car you know you’re in for a trying time. Then and now the 1970 World Cup Rally is thought to be the toughest-ever rally. Six weeks, 16,000 miles, three continents, 17 torturous stages, elevations of up to 16,000 feet.

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.

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