From the Piedmont foot hills of North Carolina bursts hobbyist Cleotis Lawson with this new gaming manual. The book highlights twenty-four race packages that toy car collectors may use to stage auto races board game style. Stock Car Solitaire stretches to engender an appreciation for the essence of auto racing while utilizing a Hoyle book-like ......
Most racing books focus on the go-fast aspect of racing. But there is a lot more to becoming a champion. In this insightful and comprehensive book, the author shares "A Complete Guide to Winning in Racing," finishing the overall racing picture that other books do not. The author of "Race To Win!" provides the reader the tools needed, and an ......
Electric and electrifying: Formula E is reinventing motor sport. Things here arent calm and quiet - even if the race cars competing in the worlds first e-racing series serve up a unique low-decibel sound. They are more reminiscent of Star Wars or other futuristic sci-fi analogies.
Fans of traditional motor sport are ......
August 11, 1991. Watkins Glen, New York. 52-year-old John Delphus J.D. McDuffie, Jr. climbs aboard his No. 70 Pontiac, lined up 35th on the grid for NASCARs Budweiser at the Glen. For the 653rd time, he pinches a cigar between his teeth and fires the engine. Few take notice of No. 70 as it rolls onto the 2.428-mile road course - only a small ......
Souvenir book of full colour images of the Rob Walker Centenary Festival held in Dorking on 21st October 2018, featuring historic Rob Walker racing cars parading through the town centre, accompanied by other classic cars and a static display of classic cars.
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 ......
Senna 25 years on A celebration of his amazing career.
A roadtest compilation on Osca, Moretti and Stanguellini cars from Unique Motor Books.
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 ......
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 ......
Back in print! The the story of the passionate love of Bira, Prince of Siam, grandson of King Mongkut of The King & I fame, and the young Englishwoman who would become his wife, Princess Ceril Birabongse. The fascinating autobiography charts the life of Prince and Princess Birabongse, a life that was constantly filled with excitement and ......
This book tells the story of John Fitzpatrick Racing, its five Group C Porsches and what became of them, its crews, its drivers, its races and - above all - its charismatic owner, John Fitzpatrick, arguably the best British driver never to have raced in Formula 1.
This much-updated second edition of the Maserati 300S by Walter Baumer, includes many corrections and additions to the original text that have been uncovered in the last ten years. Almost all the photographs are new and previously unpublished, making the book an exciting addition to any Maserati library. The first edition was published in 2008. ......
Holden’s lion reclaims the Mountain!
THE 1990 Tooheys 1000 at Mount Panorama, Bathurst remains a special race in the hearts of Holden fans and now, for the very first time, the full Seven Sport telecast has been released here as part of the popular Seven Sport’s Magic Moments of Motorsport DVD series.The 1990 race ......
Widely regarded as the pinnacle of motorsport in Australia, the Bathurst 1000 has been a staple on the V8 Supercars racing calendar since its inception in 1997. With this limited edition collector set we take a look back at the 9 years between 2007 and 2015 of V8 Supercars at The Great Race Bathurst. Relive all the drama from the Holden and ......
BATHURST 1000 2014
The track surface reached its breaking point after only 60 laps, with the race having to be controversially stopped while officials repaired the broken bitumen. But it would take 160 laps to break Triple Eights fuel strategy which Chaz Mostert did on the final run out of Forrests Elbow. Mostert went on to win ......
BATHURST 1000 2015
It was a masterclass performance in 2015 on the Mountain from two of the most experienced drivers in the field as Craig Lowndes bagged Bathurst win number six and Steven Richards took his fourth in their Triple Eight Holden Commodore. Uniquely, no one on the podium had qualified in the top 10. First, second and ......
In early 1959, young Harry Heuer, Executive Vice President of the Peter Hand Brewery, Chicago, Illinois, caught the racing bug. He immediately bought a race carand entered it in the May 1959 Meadowdale USAC professional race. At the same time, Reventlow Automobiles Inc., builder and racer of the Scarab, put both of its 1958 race-winning Scarabs ......
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 ......
John Godfrey Parry Thomas - J.G Thomas - was by any standards an extraordinary man, in both life and in his tragic death. From a conventional upbringing as the son of the curate of Rhosddu in Wales in 1884, he became a prominent figure in the developing world of high-speed motor car racing and design. He became the chief engineer at Leyland ......
Carroll Shelby, legendary driving ace, race team owner, and designer of Shelby Cobra, Daytona, and Mustang GT350 classics is revered by automotive enthusiasts, yet little has been written about the last quarter century of Carroll Shelbys life. During that time Chris Theodore, VP at Chrysler and Ford, developed a close personal friendship with ......
Toyota’s unique brand of luck came to the fore once again at the 2019 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Although the race finished with a 1-2 for the Toyota Gazoo Racing team, the finishing order saw a dramatic change in the final hours of the action, in a way that always seems to strike Toyota on the Circuit de la ......
Toyota’s unique brand of luck came to the fore once again at the 2019 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Although the race finished with a 1-2 for the Toyota Gazoo Racing team, the finishing order saw a dramatic change in the final hours of the action, in a way that always seems to strike Toyota on the Circuit de la ......
Four victorious Nissan GT-R races from the vault
THE Nissan GT-R will forever remain one of the most devastatingly fast cars in the history of Australian touring car racing and on this release we celebrate four of its best races.
The six-cylinder, twin-turbo, four-wheel-drive car dubbed ‘Godzilla’ only competed ......
A Supercar has more than 600 horsepower and weighs around 1350kg. At Mount Panorama they’re capable of almost 300km/h at the end of Conrod Straight before they brake hard for the Caltex Chase section. There’s a lot of speed, a lot of energy and a lot of momentum going on with these race machines – and so when it goes wrong, sometimes it can go ......
From the V8 Supercars image collection, the latest Supercars in action from one of the most entertaining motorsport categories in the world. Includes images from Sep 2018 to April 2019 races.
What happened when Americas richest car company, producing many thousands of cars per year, went head to head with Ferrari of Italy in the mid `60s? This is the story of an immovable force coming up against the stubbornness of an unmovable object - that is, Ford against Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari, whose company produced less than four hundred cars ......
Imagine the wind wisping in 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 for sports cars in different locales, this wall calendar is sure to ignite the spark of fun and ......
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