Gary `Sox Hocking raced against the likes of Geoff Duke, Mike Hailwood and John Surtees, and eventually became double world champion - yet his name remains largely forgotten. He retired at an early stage in his career, and the explanation so often given for this ultimately proved far removed from the real reason. Roger Hughes fascinating book ......
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 ......
A roadtest compilation on Osca, Moretti and Stanguellini cars from Unique Motor Books.
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 ......
Automotive journalist Karl Ludvigsen, born in 1934 in the USA and one of the greats in automobile history, opens his archives in this book. In more than 50 years as a motor journalist, author, and an automobile historian, he has accumulated a comprehensive knowledge of his subject, and has met all the prominent figures of the automobiles golden ......
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 ......
Will Castro is the star of Velocity Channels Unique Rides. As one of the most popular car customizers in America, his life is a dream journey realized through a business he is passionate about, combined with his working with marquee names in entertainment. His fans flock to his personal appearances, watch him on TV, and follow him on social ......
This exciting release "The Great Race Supercars 2002 - 2008" features 30-minute highlights packages from each of these seven Bathurst 1000 races. It was a classic era of V8 Supercars racing that saw the gradual emergence of then-Ford team Triple Eight Race Engineering at a time when the factory Walkinshaw/Holden Racing Team squad ......
A new era dawn on "The Great Race Supercars 2009 - 2015": new faces, new teams and new cars from new manufacturers to V8 Supercars racing all taking on the challenge of 1000km around Mount Panorama. This release feature 30-minute highlights packages of each race from this period. Heart-stopping V8 Supercar action from Australias greatest motor ......
THE 1989 Tooheys 1000 at Mount Panorama, Bathurst was one of the most memorable days in the careers of Ford heroes Dick Johnson and John Bowe, who swept to an all-the-way victory in their turbo Shell Ford Sierra.
The win was Johnson’s second Bathurst 1000 win though his first over the full 1000-kilometre distance given his win in ......
Go behind the scenes to explore the history, racing, celebrity fans, and after hours of racings most glamorous and prestigious round in the F1 championship with The Life Monaco Grand Prix.
Monaco sponsored its first race in 1929 and the circuit has been part of the Formula 1 series since 1950. Conducted with the patronage of ......
Fifty years ago, a new sanctioning body emerged at a pivotal moment in motorsports history. Racing was on the upswing. New tracks were being built all across the U.S., imported cars from Europe and Japan were flooding the market, designers were pushing limits and drivers were looking for an opportunity to race for more than just a trophy. Into ......
For the first time Giorgio Piolas customary book summarising the technical aspects of F1 covers two complete seasons.
The two championships are analysed by the historic draughtsman in his usual painstaking detail. 2016 and 2017, two years in which the World Championship continued to draw on hybrid power with Mercedes ruling the ......
With brand new feature articles and major championship reports from a season in which Stuart Smith Junior and Frankie Wainman Junior shared the major titles, the F1stockcars Season Review 2018 records another dramatic season in oval racings premier formula.
•Formula E - the worlds first fully electric international single-seater street racing series - consists of ten teams and twenty drivers, competing on the international stage. This book charts Formula Es rise, the races and the vehicles
Electric and electrifying: Formula E is reinventing motor sport. Things here arent calm and ......
From 1915 through the early 1920s, American auto racing experienced rapid and exciting change. Competition by European vehicles forced American car manufacturers to incorporate new features, resulting in legendary engineering triumphs (and, essentially, works of art). Some of the greatest drivers in racing history were active during this ......
For the first time, the ultimate photographic history of Ford at Bathurst is being published to coincide with the final year of Falcon competing in the Bathurst 1000.
Never-before-attempted, this 300-plus page, hardcover, limited edition collector’s book by author Aaron Noonan and publisher V8 Sleuth will include over 800 photos, ......
Founded by John Heath and George Abecassis, the HWM racing team set out in 1950, the year of the Formula 1 World Championship’s inauguration, to race its Formula 2 cars all over Europe in a unique British endeavour. Always run on a shoestring, HWM’s single-seaters achieved great results in flying the flag with mainly British drivers, most ......
The Maserati 4CLT chassis no.1600 is one of the cars that set the great Juan Manuel Fangio on his way to five World Championships. Fangio won two Grands Prix with it, and it was also driven by other rising stars: José Froilán González, Benedicto Campos and Onofre Marimón. The 4CLT was a stateof-the-art race car in the immediate post-war years. ......
Introduced in 1930, the Bugatti Type 50 heralded a new era with the introduction of the Molsheim marque’s first twin-cam engine, a supercharged 4.9-litre straight eight of prodigious power. At a time when brute force was needed to win the Le Mans 24 Hours, a competition version was developed and three such Type 50s took part in 1931. The car ......
Just as Gumball 3000 is much more than a car rally, 20 Years on the Road is much more than a car book. A best-of compilation of the glitzy and famed international event from the past two decades, this volume is as effervescent and exciting as the road trip itself. "Gumball is about challenging tradition and taking a non-conventional approach to ......
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