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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.

Art of the Formula 1 Race Car

by Stuart Codling (Author) & James Mann (Photographer)

Racecars have a purpose and that purpose is speed not beauty. But beautyis not the subject of this book, art is. Bandying these terms about sounds almost flippant but there are serious distinctions and they merit deep thought.

The Science of Formula 1 Design: Expert Analysis of the Anatomy of the Modern Grand Prix Car

by David Tremayne

This book cleverly walks the tightrope of being both a technical book and one that will appeal to the reader who wants to understand more about the technology that goes into a modern Formula 1 car.

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