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Chassis Design: Principles and Analysis

by William F and Douglas L Milliken

This important book has a very special place, for the vast majority of the material has been taken directly from the previously unpublished writings of Maurice Olley, often called an “ueber engineer,” and a key contributor to automotive suspensions.

Bentley “Old Number One”

by Michael Hay

Old Number One was the most famous of racing Bentleys, the personal property of chairman Woolf Barnato. It was still around in 1990, restored to 1932 Outer Circuit form—wherein lies the crux of this book.

Racing in the Rain: My Years with Brilliant Drivers, Legendary Sports Cars, and a Dedicated Team

Two books about racing in the rain—they couldn’t be more alike in one respect, yet completely different in others.

Enrico Nardi, A Fast Life

by Dino Brunori, Andrea Curami

Enrico Nardi would probably be amused at the attention he continues to receive some 43 years after his death in 1966. More at home in the shop than in social situations, money, fame, or gold watches did not impress him much.

Porsche 917: The Complete Photographic History

by Glen Smale

“I could have been a contender!” Words to that effect were surely muttered in Porsche’s boardroom in 1968 when their cars, successful as they were in other types of motorsports, simply didn’t have the legs to be competitive in endurance racing.

100 Years of Brooklands: The Birthplace of British Motorsport & Aviation

by Allan Winn and John Pulford

Commissioned by the Brooklands Museum on the occasion of the famed circuit’s centenary in 2007, this book tells its story mainly in photos divided into three main sections by type of motivation—cars, motorcycles, and aircraft

Monte Carlo Rally: The Golden Age, 1911–1980

by Graham Robson

Robson loves the Monte! Trained as an automobile engineer he caught the bug after watching his first RAC rally in 1953 and became a driver himself for various works teams, and was manager of another before moving into rally journalism.

La Carrera Panamericana: “The World’s Greatest Road Race!”

by Johnny Tipler

In 2006 and 2007 Tipler accompanied the Panam as a journalist, trading rides in the press van for the occasional hitch in a service crew vehicle, which put him about as close to the action as you can get short of participating yourself.

Races, Faces, Places: The Motor Racing Photography of Michael Cooper

by Paul Parker

This is the sort of book you pick up in an idle moment—and hours later wonder where the day has gone. Both in terms of photographic technique and storytelling there is much, much to discover here.

Porsche Moments: Photographs from Europe and Mexico 1953–1962

by Jesse Alexander

To anyone with a love of motorsport at the time we have come to think of as the sport’s golden age, names of photographers like Alexander are household names.

Porsche 718 + 804: An Adventure into Formula One During the 1.5 Litre Era

by Födisch, Neßhöver, Behrndt, Roßbach

This large and heavy book fills a gap in the panoply of literature on individual Porsche models. Maybe the reason for the previous lack of coverage is that these particular models had such an uncommonly short lifespan.

Fast Company: Six Decades of Racers, Rascals and Rods

by Speedy Bill Smith with Dave Argabright

By the time you’ve walked this earth for 80 years, you’ve seen (and maybe even learned) a thing or two. Even better (for us) is if you’ve a story to tell and the ability to do that telling.

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