Archive for Items Categorized 'Racing, Rally', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

Flywheel, Memories of the Open Road

by Swallow, Pill, and the Muhlberg Motor Club

This unique book demonstrates that enthusiasm for automobiles and the printed word can survive even under the most terrible of conditions as, for instance, in a gritty German POW camp. It reprints the best of the world’s most unusual, cheapest, and lowest-circulation car mag, published in 1944–45 by half a dozen bored but talented inmates of Stalag IVb.

The Spirit of Competition

by Frederick A Simeone

Simeone’s philosophy toward collecting can be summed up by what he refers to as “The Automotive Hippocratic Oath: Do no harm to historically accurate artifacts.” His museum housing his racing sportscar collection is now open to the public and is becoming a magnet destination for enthusiasts.

Formula 1 75 Years: At Speed with the World’s Greatest Motorsport

by Codling, Roberts, and Mann

If you take 1950 to be the start of F1 as we know it then 2025 is the 75th anniversary, and this is a fine book to paint a pretty full picture. If you count differently, because you know better, this is still a fine book, because of the photos.

IMSA 1990–1999: The Turbulent Years of American Sports Car Racing

by Raffauf, Raffauf, Silbermann & Ingram

You would have to read the book prior to this one to appreciate why/how IMSA had become “The World’s Greatest Sports Car Racing Series.” The decade this book examines shows how much went wrong. Gripping stuff, written by people who were there.

Forever Young: Six Lost Talents of Motor Racing

by Wagstaff, Marriott, Saltinstall & Banks

A tribute to drivers who were on their way to a promising career but died doing what they loved before seeing it fully blossom.

Amateur Racing Driver

by T.P. Cholmondeley Tapper

In the 1930s he became the first internationally known racing driver from New Zealand and had a promising start but a short career, making a greater name for himself as a skier and also found his way into aviation.

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