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The Limit: Life and Death on the 1961 Grand Prix Circuit

by Michael Cannell 

This book explores the cost of winning. Of the two top contenders, one died and the one who won no one seemed to care about.

Competition Car Aerodynamics: A Practical Handbook

by Simon McBeath

Modern competition cars are unthinkable without downforce and drag, two key aerodynamic parameters, all explained here by a practitioner.

Formula 1 Technology

by Peter G Wright

Power, Weight, Tire Grip, Drag and Lift—understand any of these and you’re pretty smart. Understand all of them and you’ll see why a racecar at speed can cling to the roof of a tunnel upside down and not fall off.

They Started in MGs: Profiles of Sports Car Racers of the 1950s

by Carl Goodwin

Cheap, quick, easy to fix and modify, the MG TC really was the one car that can be said to have launched sports car racing in America. You’ll be surprised at who all cut their teeth on this little machine.

Ferrari: 2012 Official Scuderia Ferrari Calendar

Highlights from Ferrari’s most recent F1 season, captured in images by three of the big names in motorsports photography. There’s really not much more that needs to be said, but there is always a useful bit of background to further enlighten the viewer.

Sprint Car Salvation

by Dave Argabright 

The subtitle of this fast-moving novel by a highly respected and talented racing journalist is “A Jimmy Wilson racing adventure” and an adventure is just what it is!

The Automobile Yearbook 2011/12

by Serge Bellu (Editor)

Published since 1953, this yearbook wraps up everything automobile-related that made the news in the preceding year. Traditionally, the book covers three main aspects of the automobile: industry, motorsport and culture.

Elva: The Cars, The People, The History

by János Wimpffen

This exhaustive book is surely the last word on the subject of the little English car with the French name that willed it to go, which it did, but for only ten years.

Silver Clouds: The 1934 Grand Prix Season

by Paul Chenard

A marvelous limited-edition collection of artwork—only 50 pieces—with narrative about the 1934 racing season in Europe.

Watkins Glen, the Street Years 1948–1952

by Phillipe Defechereux

People who like round numbers will know that the year this book was published—2011—was the 50th anniversary of the first Formula 1 Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. That was 1961, by which time The Glen had been successfully hosting races for over a decade.

Sports Car Racing in the South: Texas to Florida, 1957–1958

by Willem Oosthoek

To the serious student of racing in the US, this book and its two future companions will be inevitable purchases. To the more casual reader it won’t be the hard data so much as the abundance of photos that will make this acquisition worthwhile.

Porsche: The Sports Racing Cars 1953–72

by Anthony Pritchard

This book covers Porsche’s air-cooled, rear-engined competition models from the 550 to the 917. It also includes F2 and 1 cars because of their connection to the cars in the WSC Championship and GT Prototype classes but it excludes the 911 (except for the 911R) because it is not a dedicated competition model.

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