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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.

Phil Hill: Yankee Champion, First American to Win the Driving Championship of the World

by William F Nolan

Originally published in 1962 and out of print long enough to be worth some serious money in the collectable-book marketplace, this is a revised, updated and enhanced edition.

Walter Röhrl Diary: Memories of a World Champion

by Röhrl, Müller, Klein

“I didn’t really know why I was so fast and it didn’t really interest me.” Not exactly the words one would expect from the 1980 and 1982 World Rally Champion, a veritable legend in his field who was voted by his peers Driver of the Millennium (2000).

Peking to Paris, 100th Anniversary Edition

by Luigi Barzini

Barzini was a newspaper reporter by profession and war correspondent, but more than that—as this book attests—he’s a terrific storyteller with a terrific story to tell. He was along on every one of the 8,000 miles on two roadless continents in 1907.

Porsche 908: The Long Distance Runner

by Födisch, Neßhöver, Roßbach, Schwarz

The 908 was the company’s first car to have an engine of the maximum size the regulations allowed at the time of its inception, 3 liters. It was an important car in its day but is often overlooked nowadays, especially as it is overshadowed by its successor.

We Were the Ramchargers: Inside Drag Racing’s Legendary Team

by Dave Rockwell

The Ramchargers were a group of like-minded young engineers who formed an after-hours racing team to transform Chrysler’s stodgy image and make it into a performance brand, in the process becoming one of the most successful drag-racing teams.

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