Archive for Items Categorized 'Racing, Rally', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
The Maserati 300S
by Walter Bäumer
Hard to imagine that there’s a living to be made being a full-time Maserati historian but that’s just what German photographer and car enthusiast Walter Bäumer decided to do in 2003. Incidentally, he also is the editor of the German Maserati Club’s excellent magazine Der Dreizack (The Trident).
Porsche Racing Cars: 1953 to 1975
by Brian Long
This book looks at Porsche’s purpose-built competition cars of the modern era, cars the author considers motorsports and design icons “the likes of which, sadly, we will never see again.”
Alpine & Renault, The Sports Prototypes Vols 1 & 2
by Roy Smith
Following his previous book about the Alpine & Renault Turbo F1 car Smith takes a look at a very different animal by the same maker/s in this two-volume set: the Sports Prototypes from 1963–1978.
Grand Prix Showdown!
The Full Drama of Every Championship-Deciding Grand Prix Since 1950
by Christopher Hilton
A nail-biter! You do not have to be a petrol head or F1 groupie to become totally engrossed in this book! But you do have to have a sufficiently long attention span to follow the written word, not skip ahead, and take time to savor the drama the author so purposefully built into his story arc.
Legendary Race Cars
by Basem Wasef
McLaren, Lotus, Maserati, Ferrari—simply saying the names of the world’s great racecar makers is thrilling to their fans. The words sound fantastic on their own; still powerful even after all the years they’ve been household words.
Merchants of Speed: The Men Who Built America’s Performance Industry
by Paul D Smith
One of the many cultural developments that accompanied the end of WWII was the rising interest (some might say craze) for automotive performance that continues to this day. Read about the automotive visionaries that made it so.
The Bahamas Speed Weeks
by Terry O’Neil
At six years in the making, this book took almost half as long to compile as the event itself lasted—13 years, starting in 1954. It is the first and to date only book to chronicle an event whose importance on the motorsports calendar is difficult to peg.
Closing Speed
by Ted West
The author traveled to Europe as a racing reporter in 1970 and was assigned to cover the World Manufacturers Championship. This fictional account covers the racing—and a whole lot more on the sidelines.
Abarth: The Man, The Machines
by Luciano Greggio
As with several other automotive histories author Greggio has to his name, this one too ranks among the serious, reference-level literature. It is the story of Alberto Abarth whose name and accomplishments are not nearly as well known as the staggering 7300 races between 1958 and 1971 in which cars built or enhanced by him were victorious.
Motor Racing: Reflections of a Lost Era
by Anthony Carter
You may already have stacks of books on European GP motor racing in the 1950s to the 1970s—and you still wouldn’t have seen these photos.
1950s Motorsport in Colour
by Martyn Wainwright
If this book had a subtitle it would say “The Races and Hill Climbs of England and Ireland.” And it should have specified that for the sake of those readers/buyers who, in the absence of other information, make their book purchases based on title searches and might well have expected something different.
Spyders & Silhouettes: The World Manufacturers and Sports Car Championships in Photographs, 1972–1981
by János Wimpffen
A reader who went straight for the photos would be forgiven—they are the predominant feature of this and Wimpffen’s other three oversize and heavy books in this monumental series of photographic histories.
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