Archive for Items Categorized 'Racing, Rally', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

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.

Le Mans Panoramic

by Gavin D. Ireland 

A close-up, all-access look at two recent years of the world’s oldest sports car endurance race in sweeping double-page panorama shots that almost put you right into the scene!

Fast Car Physics

by Chuck Edmondson

So you want to drive fast. Better you first strap on your slide rule before you strap yourself into that car.

Speedway: Auto Racing’s Ghost Tracks

by SS Collins and Gavin D. Ireland

Unless you have a heart of stone, this book will stir the soul! The tooth of time gnawing away at once-famous race tracks. Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust.

Peking to Paris 2007: The Ultimate Driving Adventure

by Philip Young

If it’s exhausting just to read the book, imagine actually doing the grueling rally—and paying a $100K for the opportunity to risk life and limb, not to mention car.

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