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 ...
Fernando Alonso is one of the best drivers to ever drive in Formula One; a double World Championship winner, he is admired and loved by millions. Here he tells his incredible journey to motorsport superstardom for the first time. Fernando Alonso: Two-time Formula 1 world champion. Three-time Formula 1 runner-up. World Endurance Champion. Winner ......
Laurel and Hardy, Ant and Dec, Morecambe and Wise, Herbert and Hill. The history of entertainment is studded with brilliant comic duos.
Johnny Herbert and Damon Hill between them competed in 261 Grand Prix amassing 25 wins, 49 podium finishes, one World Championship, 458 championship points, a Le Mans win, two smashed ankles, a broken ......
In this "captivating" (New Yorker) and "engaging" (Wall Street Journal) book, historian Dan Albert explores how car culture has suffused Americas DNA. The plain, old-fashioned, human-driven car built our economy, won our wars, and shaped our sense of freedom as it gave us mobility. Has the road now come to an end? Fewer young ......
What really happened at British Leyland (BL)? Was it just the cars, or were other factors vital to the story? Who really was to blame for BL and MG Rovers death? The truth about BL is deeper than its cars - were ultra- Left-wing plots to topple BL and British society real? Did secret deals and political intrigue really exist? Was it Labour or ......
John Andrettis life was driven by family and fueled by a passion for racing. In Racer, Andretti candidly recounts how these powerful forces shaped a diverse professional driving career. The honesty and character that defined Andrettis life offer a behind-the-scenes look at racing at all levels full of lessons in racing and life ......
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 ......
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 ......
The Formula One book. Art of the Race, V19 is book six in a series that encapsulates the very essence of Formula 1 motor racing through the lens of Darren Heath, one of the sports greatest ever photographers. Across 256 pages of stunning photography, Art of the Race, V19 captures the key moments and rarely seen images of each race as the 2019 ......
The Wellington Street Races ran on one of the most challenging and demanding circuits in the world. Between 1985 and 1996, the races brought some of the worlds top teams and drivers to New Zealand. They also played a major role in the development of the Wellington waterfront as a public space. The race track ran through central Wellington ......
Top racing drivers, legendary cars, and thrills - the 1960s were the golden age of motorsport. Up close: the photographer Horst H. Baumann and his camera. He was one of the first to record the Formula 1 races in colour photos and published his works in 1965 in the cult book The New Matadors. Close to it. Full risk. Full of emotion. That was the ......
The cars that disputed the 2019 World Championship are the protagonists of this annual; the first authored by Paolo Filisetti, an authoritative technical commentator and a contributor to leading Italian and international specialist magazines. Through a rich series of colour drawings, the author reveals all the secrets concealed beneath the ......
FOR the first time, Australian motorsport legend Glenn Seton opens up about his Hall of Fame career in a brand new book: ‘Seto: The Official Racing History of Glenn Seton’.
Seton looks back on his amazing career in this 260-plus page career retrospective, covering the highs and lows of being both a driver and team owner in the ......
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 ......
When it comes to the masters of motorsport, Mark Skaife is without peer. The stats ordain him the most brilliant touring car racer in Australian motorsport history: his six Bathurst victories and five touring car championships place him in the rarefied company of Peter Brock.
For more than three decades across the Holden Racing Teams ......
Laurel and Hardy, Ant and Dec, Morecambe and Wise, Herbert and Hill. The history of entertainment is studded with brilliant comic duos.
Johnny Herbert and Damon Hill between them competed in 261 Grand Prix amassing 25 wins, 49 podium finishes, one World Championship, 458 championship points, a Le Mans win, two smashed ankles, a broken ......
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 ......
Formula One Circuits From Above gives the reader the perfect insight into what makes Formula 1 the most exciting and dramatic of all forms of motorsport. The unique photography provided by Google (TM) Earth shows each circuits challenges and why only the very best drivers in the world can succeed in Formula One.
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Feature length documentary that not only chronicles the extraordinary life of Australias greatest racing car driver, Peter Brock, but peels away the surface to reveal the profoundly human story behind the legend. This film is a cinematic, thrilling yet intimately personal portrait of a life lived on the racing track and in the public eye. Using ......
Feature length documentary that not only chronicles the extraordinary life of Australias greatest racing car driver, Peter Brock, but peels away the surface to reveal the profoundly human story behind the legend. This film is a cinematic, thrilling yet intimately personal portrait of a life lived on the racing track and in the public eye. Using ......
The Art of the Formula 1 Race Car 2021 presents thirteen of the most noteworthy F1 race cars from seventy years of competition, captured in the studio portraits of master automotive photographer James Mann.
The photographs in this sixteen-month calendar showcase greats from Ferrari, McLaren, Williams, ......
Erich Glavitza knew Rindt well and, in his well-known relaxed manner, has painted this picture of the 1970 F1 World Champion, that is as compelling as it is insightful and sensitive. To mark the 50th anniversary of the racing drivers death, McKlein presents this 400-page large-format richly-illustrated biography in a noble design and ......
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 is the story of Charles Pozzis life and career, first as a successful racing driver, then as agent, dealer and importer from 1969 to 2003, building the network in the key French market.
The Light Car Company Rocket was the brainchild of former racing driver Chris Craft and design genius Gordon Murray, who relentlessly chased his goal of building the lightest production road car of all time.
Imagine the wind whipping across your face as you coast on the open road in your very own sports car, freedom at your fingertips. Sports cars set the standard for superior engineering and ingenuous design. Featuring a collection of sleek photographs of sports cars in different locales, this wall calendar is sure to ignite the spark of fun and ......
This fascinating and inspiring biography of John H Haynes - the man behind Haynes Manuals - looks under the bonnet at his extraordinary life, and his legacy to the motoring world. This is the story of how one mans vision and enthusiasm gave a small enterprise in rural Somerset a global footprint. The story begins with Johns childhood in Ceylon ......
First-ever book revealing the whole story of the iconic black Shadows and the Shadowman who made it all happen. Coverage of the Can-Am years occupies the books first half, starting with the jaw-droppingly radical, low-line car of 1970 and culminating in the championship winner of 1974. Formula 1, 1973-80, fills the books second half, ......
The formative years of the 1950s are explored in this next instalment of Evro’s decade-by-decade series covering all Formula 1 cars and teams. When the World Championship was first held in 1950, red Italian cars predominated, from Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and Maserati, and continued to do so for much of the period. But by the time the decade closed, ......
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