Archive for Items Categorized 'Racing, Rally', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Montlhéry, The Story of the Paris Autodrome
by William Boddy
The only English-language history of a very important historic racetrack, written by a very important motorsports writer.
Classic Formula 1 Calendar 2013
by Paul-Henri Cahier
Starting this 2013 wall calendar with December 2012 gives you a good reason to get a head start! It features photos by the famous Cahiers.
Gentleman Jack: The Official Biography of Jack Sears
by Graham Gauld
You can hardly pick up a British race report from the 1950s and ‘60s without seeing Sears’ name as a competitor, and often enough winner, in saloon, sports, and vintage cars.
A Ribbon of Road in the Moonlight
by Michael Pearson
This builds up to the 1957 Targa Florio road race in Sicily. Fast cars, pretty women, a man with a plan. You’ll be entertained—if you don’t think too much.
Poetry in Motion: An Autobiography of a Supreme Grand Prix Driver
by Tony Brooks
The title alludes to Brooks’ combination of speed and smoothness. Publicity-shy, he never sought the limelight so it took 15 years of prodding to get this autobiography out of him. Find out what made him one of Britain’s premier racing drivers of the 1950s.
Can-Am Calendar 2013
by Pete Lyons
Twelve months in a year—24 historic photos in this limited-edition calendar of the wild, wild cars of the 1966–1974 Canadian-American Challenge Cup series
Fast Lines: Memorable Moments in Motorsport
by Pete Lyons
What makes cars and men champions? Lyons explored this subject over the years and, touching on many different forms of racing, wrote books and magazine columns. Here, fifty-five of these for Vintage Racecar magazine are gathered in book form.
Jaguar XJR7
by Ted West, photos by P. Harholdt
Racing improves the breed, so it is said. The Jaguar XJRs five-year run may not have made the accursed road cars any better but they certainly had enough of a halo effect to stabilize the brand’s slipping fortunes.
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.
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