The Golden Days of Thompson Speedway & Raceway
by Terry O’Neil
Dubbed “The Indianapolis of the East” Thompson played an early and lasting role in bringing racing onto purpose-built tracks. Today’s Motorsports Park is a multi-tier entertainment destination that hosts NASCAR and the SCCA but also driving schools and testing.
MotorBinder: Classic Photographs from the Golden Age of Motor Racing
by Roy Spencer
Not just another catch-all generic photo book! This is a story, told in period photos, of mostly west coast racing seen from the perspective of someone who participated fielding his own cars and for-hire drivers.
1982: The Inside Story of an Astonishing Grand Prix Season
by Christopher Hilton
A multitude of factors conspired to make the 1982 season exceptionally turbulent and trying. Political wrangling, a driver’s strike at the first race, fatal crashes, a rather unexpected champion and more, more, more. The book is ten years old but remains a shining beacon.
World Championship
by Gregor J. Grant
The author of the iconic The Boy’s Book of Motor Sport also had his adult audience covered, with books and a weekly magazine that followed motor racing in a serious, data-intensive way.
Citroën DS: Revised and updated edition
by Malcolm Bobbitt
A perennial favorite and design icon the DS is one of those cars that is either loved or hated. This book gives you reasons for both sides.
Transatlantic Style | Stile Transatlantico
by Donald Osborne
A new exhibit is coming to the US and this is the catalog. It explores what is superficially thought of as a symbiotic relationship, for a time, in regards to design between two car cultures.
Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2013–2014
by Adolfo Orsi and Raffaele Gazzi
This is an annual volume that analyzes, reviews and reports on the year’s auction results from 17 automotive auction houses—nearly 90 events. But this book is far more than just a bunch of dry lists.
Silverstone – the Home of British Motor Racing
by Chas Parker
First used in 1947 by a bunch of friends for some off-the-cuff racing—running over a sheep in the pursuit of speed—this former airfield drew only a year later a crowd of 100,000 for its first proper British GP. Here is the whole story, from then to 2013.
A.T.S., The Italian Team That Challenged Ferrari
by Michael John Lazzari
Readers steeped in Ferrari history know about the “Palace revolt” of 1961. ATS is a direct result of that and a thorough account of this episode would be a worthy addition to the literature. This book could be it—if you speak Italian well enough to make sense of this English translation.
De Tomaso, From Buenos Aires to Modena
by Daniele Pozzi
In every regard, de Tomaso had a full and complicated life, his exotic road cars were more practical and no less sexy than others but remained marginalized anyway, he was a wheeler-dealer in the best and the worst sense—this book sorts some of it out.
Mid-Atlantic American Sports Car Races 1953–1962
by Terry O’Neil
At long last here’s another missing piece to the puzzle that is the not undramatic and certainly not painless shift from amateur to pro racing in the US.
Sports Car Racing in the South: Texas to Florida, 1961–1962
by Willem Oosthoek with Photography by Bob Jackson
If you’re a car person you’ve heard of Stuttgart. How about Stuttgart, Arkansas? Geneva, Florida? Opa Locka? Opelousas? Even if you have, you’ve probably long forgotten who raced what where. No more!
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