In the most glittering era of sports car racing, the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Lola T70 and its descendants radiated star quality. These big racers, both brutal and beautiful, graced the Can-Am stage in North America as open spyders and the world sports car championship as closed coupes. Powered by big American V8 engines, they were ......
In 1919 the first Ford assembly plant on mainland Europe was established in Copenhagen, Denmark. From there, Ford model Ts were successfully exported to most of North-Eastern Europe. The Danish Ford company was a successful investment, and continued production through the recession of the 1930s, the German occupation 1940-45 ......
This book offers a unique perspective within the luxury automobile industry in which the author, a Ferrari dealer, recounts a lifetime with the iconic car brand. Chapters detail a wide range of experiences, like a nonstop drive in a 308GTB from Chicago to Boston; rides with important figures like Piero Ferrari and Dario Benuzzi; and a visit to ...
The first English-language biography of Formula 1s hottest new talent, Dutchman Max Verstappen
Few drivers have ever shaken up Formula 1 in quite the same way as Verstappen. Already the youngest competitor in F1 history, having made his breakthrough in 2015 aged just 17, his debut race for Red Bull at the 2016 Spanish ......
LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020
The definitive biography of a racing driver who won three World Championship titles Matt Dickinson, The Times, Sports Books of the Year
Thoroughly gripping...a fitting tribute Justin Marozzi, Sunday ......
From the resumption of automobile production at the close of World War II through the 1950s, the American auto industry would see the births and deaths of several manufacturers, great technological advances, and an era of dramatic styling as a prospering nation asserted its growing mobility. Cars of this period are among the most iconic ......
From the resumption of automobile production at the close of World War II through the 1950s, the American auto industry would see the births and deaths of several manufacturers, great technological advances, and an era of dramatic styling as a prospering nation asserted its growing mobility. Cars of this period are among the most iconic ......
The Aston Martin DB5 is a British luxury car made by Aston Martin and designed by the Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera. First released in 1963, the DB5 is the best-known cinematic James Bond car, first appearing in the James Bond film Goldfinger. Since the film, the DB5 has become closely associated with the James Bond ......
From the pit crew to Lewis Hamilton, from the admin team to the engine designers, the Mercedes Formula One team have collectively won everything in sight since the new rules in 2014\. Formula One moved away from the V8 2.4 litre and bought in the 1.6 litre turbo hybrids. Mercedes hit the ground running in 2014, creating an engine and chassis ......
This instalment in Evros decade-by-decade series covering all Formula 1 cars and teams is devoted to a period when some normality seemed to return after the ground-effect and turbo excesses of the 1980s, except for one terrible weekend in the spring of 1994. The tragic deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna led to immense change with ......
Winner of the Motor Press Guild Best Book of the Year Award & Dean Batchelor Award for Excellence in Automotive Journalism
For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph by an improbable team of upstarts over Hitlers fearsome Silver Arrows ......
Captures the bold, engaging spirit of one of Britains best-loved sporting heroes Sunday Times
A fascinating read and sure to be the definitive account of his life Mark Knopfler
Even in the midst of a global pandemic, the death of Stirling Moss on 12 April 2020 at the age ......
Don "The Snake" Prudhomme reveals for the first time ever his incredible life and career on and off of the drag strip.
Imagine spending a year with Don "The Snake" Prudhomme, having coffee together and talking about his life, his racing, his friends, and his family. Hed tell you about how he rose from being a high school drop-out who ......
This book reveals - using many photos of the Bernard Cahier archive - the attraction and excitement generated by the forty-seven Grands Prix that constituted the World Championships for Drivers under the 1.5-litre Formula One regulations. Including some of the best drivers of all time like Moss, von Trips, Hill, Surtees, Gurney, Clark and ......
This Eddie Rickenbacker Era book is first and foremost an in-depth look of his ownership of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from 1927-1945 and not intended to be another biography of Rickenbackers life. A list of books of Eddies military life or his ordeal about being lost 23 days in the South Pacific, which I highly recommend reading, follows. ......
THE OFFICIAL REVIEW OF THE 2020 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPTM
Records broken. Legends made. History rewritten.
2020 was the season that could not be stopped.
Sit back, strap in and relive the moments that made the 2020 FIA Formula One World ChampionshipTM one of the most memorable in racing ......
Ferrari Formula 1 Car by Car presents all of Ferraris F1 cars in chronological order, featuring an overview of each cars significant features, technical specifications, and its competition record accompanied by historic and contemporary images. Published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of F1 and Ferraris participation in ......
THE OFFICIAL REVIEW OF THE 2020 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPTM
Records broken. Legends made. History rewritten.
2020 was the season that could not be stopped.
Sit back, strap in and relive the moments that made the 2020 FIA Formula One World ChampionshipTM one of the most memorable in racing ......
Brush up on your knowledge of all your favorite drivers, plus the new faces to look out for and see if you could be next World Champion with our hints and tips to racing in the fast lane. Plus, enjoy a look inside the home of the grand prix, as well as a fascinating behind-the-paintwork view of how the supercars that roar ......
Best known for his extraordinary skills at the wheel of racing cars, Stirling Moss was also an extremely effective rally driver. He entered many rallies from the early 1950s on, usually achieving top ten results in a variety of makes, initially Sunbeam-Talbot and in later years Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Aston Martin and Saab. He very nearly won ......
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the British cult classic movie The Italian Job. Loaded with sixties swagger, and famed for its endlessly quotable dialogue and one of the most impressive car chases in movie history, The Italian Job is the ultimate celebration of ‘cool Britannia’.
Based on more than 50 in-depth interviews with ......
Ford’s debut in April 1964 of the Mustang was the first stone overturned in the difficult task of repurposing its image to the youth market. The Mustang achieved that in spades but was often not taken very seriously in the muscle car ranks, where the 390GT engine was no match for the competition. When the Cobra Jet–equipped fastback Mustangs ......
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