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S-1766
Price: $28.95
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Surviving to Drive:
A Year Inside Formula 1
by Guenther Steiner
Haas team
principal Guenther Steiner brings readers inside his Formula 1 team
for the entirety of the 2022 season, giving an unobstructed view of
what really takes place behind the scenes.
Through
this unique lens, Steiner guides readers on the thrilling
rollercoaster of life at the heart of high-stakes motor racing.
Packed full of twists and turns, from pre-season preparations to
hiring and firing drivers, from the design, launch, and testing of a
car to the race calendar itself,
Surviving to Drive
is the first time that an Formula 1 team has allowed an acting
team principal to tell the full story of a whole season.
Uncompromising and searingly honest, told in Steiner's inimitable
style, this is a fascinating and
hugely entertaining account of the realities of running a Formula 1
team.
Hard cover, 304 pages.
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S-1750
Price: $95.00
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The
Green Flag: Just a Bloke’s Story
by
Barry Green with Gordon Kirby
Barry Green’s new memoir covers his
life growing up in Australia and his early racing efforts aboard his
own Formula Fords in Australia and Formula 3 cars in Europe. Barry
and his wife, Jeanne, then moved to the United States, where he went
on to become a very successful Can-Am and Indy car team manager and
owner.
Over 23 years, from 1980-2002,
Barry’s cars won six Can-Am races and 47 Indy car races, including
two (and some say three) Indy 500s.
He worked with some great drivers,
including Teo Fabi, Bobby Rahal, Danny Sullivan, Michael Andretti,
Al Unser Jr., Jacques Villeneuve, Dario Franchitti and Paul Tracy,
as well as brilliant designers like Adrian Newey and Tony Cicale,
and a long list of tremendously skilled and motivated mechanics and
crewmen.
Barry tells his story with the generous help of these great
drivers, engineers and crewmen.
The Green Flag
is a high-quality coffee-table book, 288 pages with 190 color and
B&W photographs and a complete list of Barry’s race teams’
statistics.
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S-1719
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DON’T MENTION RACING
Unless You Have An Hour To Spare
(100 Stories, 60 Years, 1
Driver)
by Roger Allan French
Exceptional storytellers know how to grab readers and ensure they
want to hear the rest of the story. Roger French not only shares 100
of his best stories about his racing career, but also sheds light on
what he experienced along the way: laugh-out-loud moments along with
sobering tales of near-misses for French and his competitors.
From
his earliest days in rough-and-tough stock cars, then on to SCCA
Formula Vee racing, GT3, go-karts and more, he raced from New
England to Europe and back.
Even
longtime racers and fans will learn about racing as only an insider,
a former chief instructor, flagger and rescue marshal can share.
Soft
cover, 300 pages.
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S-1731SC
Price: $22.95
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SHELBY AMERICAN
The Renegades Who Built the
Cars,
Won the Races, and Lived the Legend
by Preston Lerner
The story of Shelby American, the
iconic company that in less than a decade created a legacy that will
be revered as long as cars still roar around racetracks.
This entertaining book delves into the
personalities and explosive hijinks that made Shelby American such a
vibrant place to work.
Always
standing above it all was Carroll Shelby himself. Dynamic,
charismatic, mercurial, mercenary, and a little bit dangerous, he
had to fight Ford bean-counters as fiercely as he dueled with Enzo
Ferrari. But for a few magical years, Shelby managed to beat both of
them at their own games.
Soft
cover, 320 pages.
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S-1729
Original Price: $80.00
Special:
$30.00
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SUNSHINE, SPEED, AND A
SURPRISE:
The 1959 Grand Prix of the United States
by Joel E. Finn
(2006)
This is a story of speed, challenge and champions. In the decade
after WW ll, in an America gone patriotic and car crazy, racing
promoter Alec Ulmann created an unlikely sports car race circuit on
an airfield near Sebring, a sleepy town in central Florida. Within a
few years, tens of thousands of fans made the trek to the events he
organized there.
However, it was after years of negotiation and effort that Ulmann
scored motor racing’s biggest prize: his circuit in Sebring would
host the first Formula 1 Grand Prix race to be staged in America.
Better still, it would be at the end of the racing season when the
1959 FIA World Drivers Championship would be decided in what turned
out to be a surprising finish.
Hardcover, 216 pages, lavishly illustrated with 330 black &
white photographs.
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S-1728
Original Price: $70.00
Special:
$50.00
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CARIBBEAN CAPERS: The
Cuban Grand Prix Races of 1957, 1958, and 1960
by Joel E. Finn (2010)
The three Cuban Grand Prix races brought the excitement of
the world’s best sports cars to one of the world’s most glamorous
playgrounds. This is a compelling story, filled with unexpected
twists and maneuverings.
Author Joel Finn, who was one of
the timing officials at the races in 1958, has gathered a riveting
account from original correspondence and interviews with
participants as well as rare records from the organizers.
Includes more than 500 images of memorabilia and historic
photographs of the cars, drivers and events—many never before
published—as well as meticulously compiled charts of the race
entries and race results ensure that this will remain the
authoritative account of the events in Cuba during the Golden Age of
sports car racing.
Hard cover, 260 pages.
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S-1706
Price: $44.95
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Ken Miles: the Shelby American
Years
by Dave Friedman
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 Miles by Carroll
Shelby in February 1963 initiated arguably the greatest pairing of
driver/owner partnerships in the history of motorsports. Not only
did Shelby hire Competition Manager Ken Miles as an accomplished
road racer, but Miles also brought professionalism, innovation, and
a keen ability to surround himself with budding talented
individuals.
The list
of race cars that Ken piloted at Shelby American is nearly
unrivaled: the Shelby 289 Cobra, 390 Cobra, 427 Cobra, King Cobra,
Shelby Daytona, Mustang GT350R, and Ford GT. Ken dominated the 1964
United States Road Racing Championship (USRRC) racing season by
winning 8 of 10 races to secure the Manufacturers' Championship.
However, it was at Le Mans where Ken Miles became a worldwide
household name.
The
robbery that was the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans is laid out in
excruciatingly accurate detail as Ford royalty Carroll Shelby,
Carroll Smith, Homer Perry, Leo Beebe, Charlie Agapiou, Bob Negstad,
Carroll Smith, and Peter Miles recall the race and the tragedy that
followed two months later.
Soft cover, 240 pp., 308 b/w & 45
color photos.
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S-1690
Price: $85.00
Special: $39.95
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LOST IN TIME: Formula
5000 in
North America
by
John Zimmermann
During the 1960s and 1970s, American road racing flourished, with
hard-fought championships for the Can-Am, the Trans-Am and last but
not least the Formula 5000 series.
Built
around the idea of a standard engine size for American V-8s, Formula
5000 attracted excellent entries from well-known teams such as Dan
Gurney, Jim Hall, Carl Haas, Parnelli Jones, Roger Penske and Carl
Hogan. The series led manufacturers to develop relatively affordable
chassis designed to compete on the numerous North American road
courses spread across the U. S. and Canada.
In
this volume John Zimmermann’s excellent round-up of Formula 5000
provides the first comprehensive overview of all the elements of
this great racing series. Fully researched and extensively
illustrated, the book provides an essential history for students of
racing history and fans alike, a must for the true enthusiast.
Hard
cover coffee-table book, 224 pages heavily illustrated with color &
B&W photos.
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S-1684
Price: $50.00
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F1
MAVERICKS: The Men and Machines that
Revolutionized Formula 1 Racing
by Pete Biro & George Levy
Foreword by Mario Andretti
Afterword by
Niki Lauda
F1
Mavericks is the story of the grandest, most influential, and
most fondly remembered era in Formula 1 racing as seen through the
lens of master motorsports photographer, Pete Biro.
The
period from 1960 to 1982 saw the greatest technological changes in
the history of Formula 1 racing: the transition from front engines
to rear engines, narrow, treaded tires to massive racing slicks,
zero downforce to neck-wrenching ground effects--and, of course, a
staggering increase in performance and reduction in lap times. In
short, the Maverick Era saw the creation of the modern Formula 1
car.
This is also the time when
legendary names who defined F1 were out in full force: Jim Clark,
Jack Brabham, Dan Gurney, Sir Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill, Niki
Lauda, James Hunt, Bruce McLaren, Jody Scheckter. We'll see and meet
all of them. But F1 Mavericks also focuses on the maverick
designers and engineers behind the cars--men like Colin Chapman,
Mauro Forghieri, Sir Patrick Head, Maurice Philippe, Gordon Murray,
Robin Herd and many others. We'll hear directly from many of them,
including a foreword from 1978 F1 World Champion, Mario Andretti and
afterword from the late three-time champion Niki Lauda.
Every
chapter is a photographic account of important races throughout the
period, supplemented with sidebars featuring key designers and
technologies, like wings, ground effect, slick tires, turbochargers,
and the Brabham "fan" suction car. F1 Mavericks is an
international story, and includes designs from Japan (Honda),
Britain (McLaren, Tyrrell, Cooper, BRM) Italy (Ferrari, Maserati,
Alfa Romeo), France (Matra, Ligier, Renault), Germany (Porsche, BMW)
and the United States (Eagle, Shadow, Penske, Parnelli).
Hard cover, loaded with B&W and color photos, 240 pages.
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S-1290
Original Price: $100.00
Now: $29.95
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Riverside Raceway:
Palace of
Speed
by Dick Wallen
Riverside: Palace
of Speed
revives great
memories of the extraordinary demanding
Southern California championship road course that sadly
closed in 1989 to make way for a shopping mall. Dick Wallen covers
everything from the construction of the track in 1957, through late
1950s and early 1960s sports car racing, to NASCAR stock car racing,
National Championship Indy car events and International contests
such as the United Stated Grand Prix and the Los Angeles Times Grand
Prix.
Legendary drivers like sports car racing's Phil
Hill, Jimmy Clark and Mark Donohue, NASCAR's Junior Johnson, Richard
Petty, and Dale Earnhardt, Indy Car racing's Parnelli Jones, Mario
Andretti, A. J. Foyt and Rick Mears, and off-road racing's Mickey
Thompson, Walker Evans and Roger Mears are all covered in this
wide-ranging volume. Not forgotten are several seasons of drag
races, most of them over a half-mile strip instead of the
conventional quarter-mile.
Hard cover, 352 pages with over
1000 photographs.
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S-1674
Price: $40.00
50/50
Book Review
linked below
courtesy of
Speedreaders.info,
Copyright 2019,
Helen V Hutchings
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50/50: John Paul Jr. and His Battle
with
Huntington’s Disease
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by Sylvia Wilkinson
His driving initially described as “hopeless” by a professional
driving instructor, John Paul Jr. began his career in 1979 driving
Formula Fords. The following year he joined his controversial
father’s racing team as co-driver in the IMSA series. After only two
years of competing, John Paul Jr. started the 1982 season with
back-to-back wins at Daytona and Sebring, clinching the ’82
championship at the age of 22 and becoming IMSA’s youngest champion.
He won the Michigan 500 CART race in 1983, followed by a
second-place finish at Le Mans in 1984 and competed in the
Indianapolis 500 seven times.
Symptoms of the
neurodegenerative disorder Huntington’s disease began to appear at
age 39, and John Paul Jr. began his fight against that deadly
disease.
This book chronicles John Paul Jr.’s complex life
story and his battle with Huntington’s, which ended with his death
on December 29, 2020. The book is unconventional in every way and
well worth working through the unusual layout to uncover a
fascinating story.
Hard cover, 148 pages, 88 color & 30 B&W images.
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S-1398
Price: $39.95
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The Cars of Trans-Am
Racing 1966-1972
Road Racing Muscle from GM, Ford, Chrysler
and AMC
by David Tom
Foreword by Bud Moore
The
legendary history of the pony car wars comes to life in
The Cars of Trans-Am Racing, just
brought back in a soft-cover edition. The SCCA Trans-Am Racing
Series launched in 1966 and was designed to showcase a new class of
sporty domestic cars racing on road courses.
Each major
automotive manufacturer participated heavily in the Trans-Am Series,
and in a few short years, it became the ultimate American automobile
showdown. When the modified muscle cars of the series were seen
performing well on the country's finest tracks, fans wanted a model
of their own in the driveway.
These "pony cars" boasted a new look and style not seen before, and
their all-around performance eclipsed anything accomplished by
production-based American GT cars up to that point. Many of these
historic cars have been restored to race-ready condition. Additional
insight and interviews from the original builders and the teams that
maintained the cars provide an insider's viewpoint never before seen
in print.
Soft
cover, 192 pages, 485 color images.
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S-1645
Original Price: $80.00
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Chris
Pook & the History of the Long Beach GP
by
Gordon Kirby
Foreword
by Mario Andretti
When
Chris Pook declared his intention to run a Grand Prix race through
the streets of Long Beach, many people thought he was out of his
mind. But with the powerful support of racing legend Dan Gurney, and
many other enthusiasts, Pook proved his doubters wrong: He built the
most successful street race in American motor racing history.
The race spawned extensive redevelopment of the city’s coastal
downtown area, as Pook’s crazy idea turned into a model for bringing
racing to the people and using the surrounding event to rebuild a
flagging community.
Hard cover, B&W and color photos 320
pages.
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S-1619
Price: $85.00
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FORMULA 1: THE
KNOWLEDGE,
Second Edition
by David Hayhoe
The first
edition of Formula 1: The Knowledge was groundbreaking: an
entire book dedicated to F1 records and trivia, which proved hugely
popular with F1 enthusiasts and fans of racing statistics.
This new edition is fully updated, with up-to-date stats and an
extended narrative including many amusing, and some serious, stories
from the history of F1.
There are performance records of
every driver, car constructor, and engine make to have taken part; a
detailed insight into the variety of qualifying procedures
throughout the years; a summary of regulation changes since 1950;
and a quick reference guide to every Grand Prix result.
Performances are analyzed by nationality, youngest/oldest,
fastest/slowest, consecutive wins, poles, most wins at different
circuits, and more.
A comprehensive photographic section
depicts the changing scene of Formula 1 since its inception in 1950.
An invaluable reference that will both entertain and provide
definitive data.
Hard cover, 540 pp., 90 color & b-w photos.
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S-1594
Price: $49.95
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Enzo Ferrari: Power,
Politics, and the
Making of an Automotive Empire
by Luca Dal Monte
This is
truly the definitive biography of Enzo Ferrari, one that makes
previous accounts obsolete. Its depth, scale, and detail make it
essential reading for automotive and motorsport enthusiasts. But
other readers will be drawn to a sweeping story of Italian life,
business, and culture during the 20th century.
Drawing on
years of original research conducted in Italy and abroad, author and
Ferrari insider, Luca Dal Monte, uncovers a wealth of new facts
about Enzo's origins, ambitions, business practices, and private
life. The book revisits all the highlights of Ferrari's rise to
greatness: his driving career in the 1920s; his management of racing
teams for Alfa Romeo in the 1930s; the launch of his own company and
team in the late 1940s, and his unprecedented successes building
cars for the road and race track in the following decades.
But the book also examines lesser-known and sometimes hidden aspects
of Ferrari's career, from his earliest failed business ventures to
his political dealings with Italy's Fascist government, Allied
occupiers, and even Communist leaders. And it lays bare the internal
politics of the Ferrari company and team, whose leader manipulated
employees, drivers, competitors and the media with a volatile
mixture of brute force, paranoia, and guile.
Hard cover, 968
pages,100 B&W and 33 color photos.
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Grand Prix - DVD
with James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves
Montand, and more.
Two-Disc
Special Edition
Nine races. One champion. James Garner, Yves Montand, Brian
Bedford and Antonio Sabato portray Formula I drivers competing to be
the best in this slam-you-into-the-driver's seat tale of speed,
spectacle and intertwined personal lives. Eva Marie Saint and
Toshiro Mifune also star.
John Frankenheimer (who 32 years
later would again stomp the pedal to the metal for the car chases of
Ronin) directs this winner of 3 Academy Awards, crafting
split-screen images to capture the overlapping drama and
orchestrating you-are-there POV camerawork to intensify the
hard-driving thrills.
Nearly 30 top drivers take part in the
excitement, so buckle up, movie fans. Race with the best to the head
of the pack.
Originally released in 1966, it was re-mastered
in 2006 with many new features:
· New digital transfer from restored 65mm elements with a
soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1
· "Pushing the Limit: The Making of Grand Prix" - 40th
Anniversary making-of documentary
· "Flat Out: Formula One in the Sixties" featurette
· "The Style and Sound of Speed" - a look at the style of
Saul Bass and the film's sound design
· "Brands Hatch: Behind the Checkered Flag" - Behind the
scenes tour of the famous raceway used in the movie
· "Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions" - archival 1960s
featurette behind-the-scenes at the Grand Prix Theatrical trailer
Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Special
Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Runtime: 176 minutes
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