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

Mickey Thompson: The Last Racing Maniac

by Scribbler Joe (Scalzo)

I read this book with the absolute wish that every single solitary, bar none, motherlover listed in it could be looking over my shoulder reading right along with me; or even better still be listening to the author frantically reading the book aloud to all of us huddled in some musty Babbitville coffee enclave at 4:30 on a cold, rainy Wednesday afternoon.

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.

Class of ’99: Triumph and Tragedy in the 1999 Indy Car Series

by John Oreovicz

That one year was a bleak one for fans of that series, and October especially so because one man died, a driver, who could have turned the whole thing around. Combining contemporary reporting and new interviews, this book examines multiple storylines.

The Formula One Record Book

by Thompson, Rabagliati, Sheldon

Published by the Formula One Register which was established in 1966 to address the issue of incomplete factual information available in English-language sources. Nothing about this was easy, but they’re still at it and in fact branched out to cover a wider range of racing.

Tony Southgate, From Drawing Board to Chequered Flag

by Tony Southgate

For someone who first started to be interested in motor racing in 1982, Southgate was consistently present in the background of the races I watched.

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