Archive for Items Categorized 'Racing, Rally', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Can-Am Cars in Detail: Machines and Minds Racing Unrestrained
by Pete Lyons & Peter Harholdt
If you know your cars and you saw the cover photo without any text, you’d know right away you’re looking at a Can-Am car. Ain’t nothin’ like it. The subtitle says it all: Unrestrained. Unrestricted. Formula Libre. Anything goes.
Go Faster: The Graphic Design of Racing Cars
by Sven Voelker
If you are a motorsports enthusiast you already know that there must be hundreds, thousands of race cars that could be discussed. If you bought this book sight unseen on the strength of its title, you’d probably expect a visual primer on the evolution, purpose, and practical application of the use of graphics on racecars. Well . . .
Fast Ladies: Female Racing Drivers 1888 to 1970
by Jean François Bouzanquet
This is the English translation of a French book. The topic of female racing drivers has been a wildly neglected one in the literature and even this book scratches only the surface by focusing only on European drivers (with two American exceptions, McCluggage and Skelton) and on only 49 of them in detail.
Grand Prix Battlegrounds: A Comprehensive Guide to All Formula 1 Circuits Since 1950
by Christopher Hilton
This well-thought out book is another feather in Hilton’s already crowded cap. He isn’t just disgorging dates and facts and figures but paints a picture. In this book he is your tour guide, and like every good tour guide, he shows you things even the locals don’t know.
French Etceterini Miscellanea
A review of three slim specialty French books:
La 4CV Bosvin-Michel-Spéciale by Robert Bosvin
La Saga sportive de la Renault 4CV by François Rivage
Sportives tricolores, 1950–70 by Jean Paul Decker
Alfa Romeo: From 1910 to 2010
by Maurizio Tabucchi
Alfa Romeo is in the enviable position of celebrating 100 years of operations, 1910–2010. All sorts of books will laud the centenary, and Italian publisher Giorgio Nada of Milan has produced two. One is a €500, 200 page limited edition of 1998 copies by various authors and then this much more affordable tome.
Mark Donahue: His Life in Photographs
by Michael Argetsinger
This book is a companion volume to Argetsinger’s excellent bio Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed. Publisher David Bull clearly has his fingers on the pulse of what readers want—and are able to afford.
Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed
by Michael Argetsinger
This biography consists of two books, this 344-page text version with only 40 photos and a second volume consisting of several hundred photographs with relevant captions. Argetsinger has written a remarkable and fitting tribute to one of America’s greatest race drivers.
Race Car Vehicle Dynamics
by William F Milliken and Douglas L Milliken
When I received my copy of RCVD—still an SAE bestseller—I felt like the guy at the bottom of the mountain to whom Moses handed the Ten Commandments. All the knowledge contained in the Holy Grail of how vehicles handle had just become mine! Comes with a workbook.
Driving Forces: The Grand Prix Racing World Caught in the Maelstrom of the Third Reich
by Peter Stevenson
The pre–WWII German Grand Prix cars remain among the most fascinating of machines for vintage motorsports enthusiasts. This book takes a different tack and looks at the human side of the story.
Alpine and Renault: The Development of the Revolutionary Turbo F1 Car 1968 to 1979
by Roy Smith
Neither Alpine nor Renault seem likely candidates for developoing the first turbocharged Grand Prix car. Finally there is proper book to tell the story of the people and ides behind it.
Hitler’s Motor Racing Battles: The Silver Arrows under the Swastika
by Eberhard Reuss
Ever since producing a 1999 documentary on this subject for German television the author perceived a vacuum in the literature about the famous Auto Union and Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows of the pre-World War Two period.
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