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 ......
Look up to the skies through Bob Riggles eyes in this wheelstanding, must-have Mopar history book on Hemi Under Glass!
While the established stock and modified brackets are long-recognized as the heart and soul of drag racing, it was the wheelstanders that more often than not put butts in the bleachers. In that category, some ......
Ken Miles is one of the most famous sports car racers in history, and his time at Shelby American was the pinnacle of his career.
Ride shotgun with Ken Miles through the twists and turns of Sebring, Laguna Seca, Riverside, and Le Mans as seen through the lens of Shelby American photographer Dave Friedman!
The hiring of Ken ......
The inspirational story of the Bentley Boys, and the Le Mans 24-hour race of 1927 that sealed their astonishing place in history.
Using the frame of that extraordinary race, in Racing in the Dark Peter Grimsdale paints a picture of a remarkable car at the historic moment when petrol overtook steam, and will ......
Why We Drive is a rebellious and daring celebration of the human spirit and the competence of ordinary people by the bestselling author of The Case for Working with Your Hands, one of the most influential thinkers of our time (Sunday Times).
Once we were drivers, the open ......
THE Adelaide 500 is the only event to sit in the Supercars Hall of Fame and, for the first time, the complete history of this world-class motorsport event is being celebrated in a limited edition, hardcover collector’s book.
Produced by the V8 Sleuth team behind a range of other successful motorsport publications, the book, ......
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 ......
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 ......
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 ......
The largest supplier of proprietary motorcycle engines in the world, J. A. Prestwich & Co (aka JAP), decided to go racing with something unique in 1922. In a matter of weeks, a small team headed by Val Page, aided by Herbert Le Vack, had produced a radical new design - the first British double-overhead-camshaft motorcycle racing engine.
The 1960s were a fascinating decade on the race scene. Relive the memories today through this wonderful new book.
Drag racing has a long and storied history. Many have said that the first drag race happened shortly after the second car was made. While that may or may not be true, racing prior to World War II was mostly centered around ......
Authentic Collectables are pleased to present our range of motorsport themed Jigsaw Puzzles.
In this series, we present artwork by Greg McNeill.
Greg McNeill is hailed as Australias best contemporary motor racing artist. He began his career in the mid-1980s and specialises in sport and mechanical illustration. You ......
The racing is getting harder and faster in “The Great Race” at the Bathurst 1000 each year and now one of the weekend favorites is here for you to enjoy, the Saturday Top Ten Shoot Out. Watch Ten of Australia’s fastest touring cars and their stars do battle for the ultimate prize “pole position” at the Mount Panorama Bathurst 1000 – kilometre ......
Authentic Collectables are pleased to present our range of motorsport themed Jigsaw Puzzles.
In this series, we present artwork by Greg McNeill.
Greg McNeill is hailed as Australias best contemporary motor racing artist. He began his career in the mid-1980s and specialises in sport and mechanical illustration. You ......
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 ......
Authentic Collectables are pleased to present our range of motorsport themed Jigsaw Puzzles.
In this series, we present artwork by Greg McNeill.
Greg McNeill is hailed as Australias best contemporary motor racing artist. He began his career in the mid-1980s and specialises in sport and mechanical illustration. You ......
The show must go on. This well-known phrase from show business lends itself perfectly to the WRC 2020 World Rally Championship. In March, just when the Covid-19 virus began spreading rapidly throughout Europe, the WRC was in Mexico, prematurely completing round three of the season. Like all professional sport, rallying came to an immediate ......
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 ......
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 ......
Learn how to build an affordable hot rod following the advice of the masters!
In How to Build Affordable Hot Rods, author and lifelong hot rod aficionado Tony Thacker takes you through the process of building a hot rod on a budget. Drawing on his own extensive experience of both buying and building rods, Thacker explores the ......
The history of hot rodding and performance cars has been well chronicled through the years. Books and magazines have covered the cars, builders, pioneers, engineers, early racers, muscle cars, street racers, etc.. Most take a nostalgic and fun look at the cars that many have loved their entire lives. Some even cover the lifestyle, the hobby as ......
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 ......
Chevrolet created the Camaro in response to the runaway sales success of the Ford Mustang, the first pony car. The Mustang went on sale in April 1964, and by August that same year, General Motors launched an intensive program to bring its own pony car to market. In September 1966, the Camaro went on sale. Chevrolet wanted the Camaro to be ......
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. ......
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