Archive for Items Categorized 'Racing, Rally', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
100 Years of the British Automobile Racing Club
by Gareth Rogers
From formula cars to trucks, pretty much anything with wheels has been raced under BARC auspices and on BARC tracks, and not just in the UK. This book goes on a colorful whirlwind tour of all things BARC.
Brooklands
by P J Wallace
A mini history of the world’s first purpose-built banked motorsport venue and one of Britain’s first airfields.
Cunningham C-4RK
by P. Bodensteiner, photos by P. Harholdt
An American car campaigned by an American team with American drivers, showing the Europeans what’s what. It would come to pass, but not with this car.
Izod IndyCar Series 2012 Historical Record Book
by Steve Shunck and Tim Sullivan
Indy cars have a long, and therefore convoluted, history. A book that finally gathers all the records and untangles the history seems a fine thing—except that it is plagued with sins of omission and commission.
The Glory of Goodwood: The Spiritual Home of British Motor Racing
by Lawrence, Taylor, Nye
The best drivers of their day tested their mettle at this former airfield. It also ranked high on the social calendar. This book shows what made Goodwood special then, and still today.
Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France
by Daniel S. Pierce
A new—and for once worthwhile—look at the myths and reality of the links between NASCAR and bootlegging, and the expansion of Southern stock-car racing into the largest spectator sport in the US.
Blood and Smoke: A True Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and the Birth of the Indy 500
by Charles Leerhsen
As that first race at Indianapolis in 1911 unfolded, the scoring became ever more confused. A winner was declared—and awarded a tidy purse. But was he the winner?
Frank Lockhart, American Speed King
by Sarah Morgan-Wu, James O’Keefe
Had he lived longer, who knows what heights he might have reached. His racing career lasted only five short years but showed such promise that the authors re-affirm Lockhart as “the greatest racing driver of his day.”
Formula One at Watkins Glen: 20 Years of the United States Grand Prix, 1961–1980
by Michael Argetsinger
The author’s father brought F1 to The Glen and racing is the “family businesss.” This should be the book that has the best story to tell. It doesn’t.
Inside the Paddock: Racing Car Transporters at Work
by David Cross with Bjørn Kjer
Racecars don’t make good road cars. And if you think about it, except for when it actually races, a racecar is just a bunch of loose parts waiting to be put together. How does all this get from race to race? Wonder no more.
Mille Miglia: The World’s Greatest Road Race
by Anthony Pritchard
Anyone could race here, just for the fun of it, and many did. Amateur drivers next to pro racers, Isetta bubble cars next to fire-belching sports cars—all on public, everyday roads. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not.
Senna
directed by Asif Kapadia
F1 fan or not, anyone who likes a big story well told ought to watch this documentary of a supremely skilled, courageous, enigmatic, controversial race driver who paid the ultimate price for doing what he felt he was put on this Earth to do.
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