Archive for Items Categorized 'Racing, Rally', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
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.
Silver Arrows In Camera
A Photographic History of the Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union Racing Teams 1934–39
by Anthony Pritchard
This book delivers more than its subtitle promises! If the word “photographic” were missing, no one would feel short-changed. Not only is it an excellent source of period photography, it also contains a thorough textual treatment in the form of contextual narrative.
Bluebird CN7: The Inside Story of Donald Campbell’s Last Land Speed Record Car
by Donald Stevens
This book tells the story of a pair of brothers who designed and built CN7 with a mind to break the world’s land speed record. In the hands of Donald Campbell, the greatest-ever LSR holder, this gas turbine-powered car established itself as the fastest wheel-driven vehicle on earth.
Stanguellini: Big Little Racing Cars
by Luigi Orsini and Franco Zagari
Automobili Stanguellini was a maker of small racing and road cars in Modena, Italy. Modena, of course, is known as the home of Ferrari and Maserati but did you realize that they and Stanguellini had their premises all within the same square mile? Stanguellini, in fact, is older than the other two.
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