Pensive Racing Drivers

by Max Küng

The quiet moments, before a race when the mind settles in on the task at hand, or after, when the last hand has been played. Even the victor lugging his magnum of champagne looks oddly spent. These are the moments captured here.

Tony Southgate, From Drawing Board to Chequered Flag

by Tony Southgate

Remember the Arrows team? The “s” in the name refers to Southgate who wanted nothing to do with it! This book strips away a lot of the glamor that is often associated with motor racing but he is still the only chief engineer to have won the Triple Crown of motorsport with his cars.

From the Royal Flying Corps to the Race to Circumnavigate the Globe

The Adventures of Squadron Leader Archibald Stuart-MacLaren

by Vanessa Ascough

This biography is about a lot more than airmanship and record attempts and exotic places. Logistics challenges, rudimentary equipment, politics, health problems … will it end well for MacLaren?

Mustang vs. Camaro, The Battle for Pony Car Supremacy

by David Newhardt

If you have a wild horse as the emblem for your new car don’t be surprised if someone calls it a pony car. How annoying is it for the guy fielding a competitor to also have it called pony car! GM told the press that a Camaro was “a small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs.” Over 60 years later—no winner.

Titanic: The Ship Magnificent

by Bruce Beveridge et al

Who doesn’t know what happened to the Titanic… but if you want to know how she was designed and built and why, inside and out, this 2-volume set is what’s needed.

Chrome Dreams, Automobile Styling Since 1893

by Paul C. Wilson

Illustrated with line drawings instead of photos this book aims to draw attention to what design features worked and/or found favor. The book is decades old by now and so makes for an interesting case study, also in regards to the author’s analytical abilities.

27: Patrick Tambay – The Ferrari Years

by Massimo Burbi with Patrick Tambay

Cosmopolitan, debonair, often described as an old-school gentleman and one of the most genuinely charming personalities in F1, this Frenchman took over the car and race number of his deceased friend and drove himself into the history books.

Spreading My Wings

One of Britain’s Top Women Pilots Tells Her Remarkable Story from Pre-War Flying to Breaking the Sound Barrier

by Diana Barnato Walker

That subtitle tells you all you need to know. She flew 80 different types and delivered more than 260 Spitfires to the front lines. Her father was Bentley Boy Woolf Barnato, her partner in life Whitney Straight. Run, don’t walk and get a copy.

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