From the early pioneers at the races beginnings through to the high-watermark of the 1960s when the Formula 1 invasion of Brabham, Gurney Clark, Hill and Stewart transformed the race from a largely United States event to capture a worldwide audience. Their success was a two-way street and Indy car drivers were tempted to compete in Formula 1 ......
The Ferrari Formula 1 single-seaters from 2010 to 2020, those of the post-Schumacher era, are the protagonists - together with drivers such as Raikkonen, Massa, Alonso and Vettel - of this calendar. Images of great appeal and impact, taken by masters of motorsport photography, portray unforgettable cars, great drivers and memorable races for a ......
The Porsche 908, 910, 917 and 935 are just a few of the protagonists of the 25 shots featured in this calendar dedicated to the Stuttgart firms golden years of motorsport from 1960 to 1980. Wonderful evocative photographs taken by Franco Villani, a master of automotive photography, portray unforgettable cars, great drivers and memorable races ......
25 spectacular photos portraying the post-war overall winners of the great Brescian classic. Photographs of great visual and emotive impact - drawn from the Novafoto-Sorlini archive and taken between 1947 and 1957 by Alberto Sorlini, the Mille Miglias official photographer - give rise to a true collectors calendar. A must-have for all ......
A roadtest compilation on Osca, Moretti and Stanguellini cars from Unique Motor Books.
No other team in history has come close to matching the record of Roger Penske s team at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Team Penske has won seventeen times in its forty-four Indianapolis 500 races at the Brickyard. Penske first attended the Indy 500 with his father in 1951. He became a champion sports-car driver in the 1950s and 60s ......
Formula One is speed, glamour, danger - and eye-watering wealth. Driven: The Men Who Made Formula One tells how a small group of extraordinary men transformed Formula One from a niche sport played out on primitive tracks surrounded by hay bales and grass verges into a 1 billion circus performing in vast theatres of ......
Champion motorcyclist and truck racer, television presenter, practical joker or just plain survivor - Steve Parrish has been called them all. Parrish Times tracks his amazing journey over the last four decades, through a rollercoaster ride of emotions in surely the most dangerous and exhilarating sporting arena there is. In the 1970s Steve was ......
The million-copy selling truck fitter returns ***Featured on Channel 4*** I cant stop biting off more than I can chew. Maybe Im wearing everything out, but I believe the body is a fantastic thing and it will repair itself and Ill go again. If its running too rich, I dont stop what Im doing, just weaken the mixture and carry on. Since we last ......
If I had to lose my record to anyone, I couldnt be happier that it was Jonathan. Family connections aside, there is nobody more talented, more determined or more deserving. - Carl Fogarty Within the staggeringly dangerous and high-pressure sport of professional motorcycling, Jonathan Reas achievements are unprecedented. A legendary World ......
Senna 25 years on A celebration of his amazing career.
Until the 1970s, four-wheel drive was almost exclusively found on utility vehicles like the Land Rover and the Jeep. And almost nobody considered four-wheel drive, especially full-time four-wheel drive as a major safety feature to be built into any type of car. That is, unless you were tractor millionaire Harry Ferguson or former racing driver ......
No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe - Valentino RossiAs The Voice of motorcycle racing for forty years, commentator Nick Harris became the biggest star not on two wheels in the paddock, and this is his mostly eye-witness, white-knuckle account of MotoGPs scorching seventy-year history.The story starts on the Isle of Man in 1949, ......
Take a ride with the worlds most exciting car community. Speedhunters is the go-to source for inspiring automotive content. Speedhunters is a community of photographers and petrolheads, documenting the thriving global car culture. They meet at truck stops in Tokyo at midnight or fight it out on the racetracks in California. Discover the ......
July 2015- the Bloodhound team will unveil the car with which theyll attempt to break the World Land Speed Record. Powered by a jet engine and a rocket engine Bloodhound is the culmination of a ten year engineering effort. The 300,000 horsepower, 1000mph car will be flown to South Africa for the attempt. Driver Andy Green must steer across a ......
This book describes the birth, development and rallying career of the Lancia Stratos, Europes very first purpose-built rally car, in the mid/late 1970s. It provides a compact and authoritative history of where, when and how it became so important to the sport, as well as telling the story of the team. The book is part of Graham Robsons ......
This book is an evocative and nostalgic look at a defining era in motorsport, which is documented in words and intimate photographs, both black and white and colour. It takes the reader from the mid-1950s through the 1960s, when motor racing was still accessible to all, and into the 1970s when overt sponsorship and television changed the sport ......
Gordon Murray is one of the greatest automotive designers of all time, and this new book from Porter Press tells the inside story of his illustrious career – year by year and car by car.
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