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Indianapolis Motor Speedway: 100 Years of Racing
What began as 328 acres of Indiana farm land is now a modern facility legendary in the world of racing. Long considered the world’s greatest race track, Indianapolis Motor Speedway turns 100 this year. Celebrate the Brickyard’s first century with colorful pictures and lively stories that capture the spirit and fun of race day.
List price: $30.00 Sale price: $19.80
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Races, Faces, Places: The motor racing photography of Michael Cooper
Races, Faces, Places is split into three main sections as described by the title, and travel from the late 1950s to the early 1970s – the heartland of motor racing nostalgia. Races: focuses on Formula 1, but Michael Cooper also covers sports, GT and saloon car racing. Faces: features the author’s portraits of iconic 1960s drivers and is perhaps his best work and illustrates the author’s genius at capturing the moment, an ability to understand the subject or place in an intimate way that transcends technical skills. Places: previously unseen behind-the-scenes material in pit and paddock locations in a way that defines the era.
List price: $79.95 Sale price: $42.11
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Sports Car Racing in Camera 1950-1959
Following the success of Haynes’s In Camera titles covering sports car racing and Formula 1 in the 1960s and 1970s, the spotlight is turned on the 1950s, starting with the vibrant sports car scene of that decade. Meticulously researched and rare photographs – over half of them in color – are brought to life through the author’s well-observed and atmospheric commentary to create a visually stunning and highly nostalgic record of this dramatic decade. Sports Car Racing in Camera 1950–59 will appeal not only to motor racing enthusiasts but also to anyone interested in the racing history of sports car manufacturers.
List price: $59.95 Sale price: $37.77
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GERMAN RACING SILVER: Drivers, Cars and Triumphs of German Motor Racing (Racing Colours)
From Lautenschlager to Schumacher, Germany’s racing drivers have etched their names at motor sport’s very pinnacle. For Mercedes in 1908 and 1914, Christian Lautenschlager won two of the greatest Grands Prix in history. Discovered by Mercedes-Benz, Michael Schumacher went on to win a spectacular seven world championships. Home Marques Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union attracted Germany’s best drivers from Hans Stuck, Rudy Caracciola and Manfred von Brauchitsch to Hermann Lang, Karl Kling and Hans Herrmann. Theirs were racing cars that were both white and silver, the latter passing into legend with the ‘Silver Arrows’.
In these pages Porsche accelerates from plucky underdog to dominant power with its 917, ‘Turbo-Panzer’ of the Can-Am series, and 956 and 962 endurance racers. Mercedes-Benz teams Juan Fangio with Stirling Moss in the 1950s to sweep both Formula 1 and sports-car classics.
Karl Ludvigsen’s dramatic telling of the German saga brings to life the great tracks, the Avus and the Nurburgring, and the cars that raced for Germany from BMW, Adler and DKW to Veritas, Audi and Borgward. Not overlooked are the exploits of such battlers in the class wars as NSU, Stoewer, AFM, Zakspeed, Scampolo, Zoller, AWE, Horch and Ford of Germany.
The glistening silver centerpiece of this unique tribute to Germany’s racing cars and drivers is the decade of the 1930s, when the Third Reich controversially backed motor sports to flaunt its skill and power. With its historic contests and sensational racing cars that coruscating decade is still classed as motor racing’s Golden Age. This is one book that is certain to have motor racing experts and fans thoroughly exhilarated, enticed and eager for the next installment!
List price: $44.95 Sale price: $34.16
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Motor Racing Quiz Book, The: Covering Grand Prix Racing
So you re a fan of motor racing, but just how wide is your knowledge and how far back does it go? You ll be tested to the limit with this Motor Racing Quiz Book and will soon be chugging into the pits to have your brain recharged when you reach the latter section designed specifically for the experts among you. However, you can console yourself that the wealth of information contained in this book will leave you a much wiser person. From the early days of Juan Manuel Fangio and Jackie Stewart to more recent personalities such as David Coulthard and Michael Schumacher, every decade is covered in this book, with questions on every conceivable Grand Prix, as well as teams, circuits, car manufacturers, pole positions, nationalities, final placings, world champions, drivers numbers, sponsors, constructors victories, engines and much more. Who was nicknamed Il Leone ? What does a black flag signify? Where is the Gilles Villeneuve circuit? Don t know? Well, buy this book and find out everything you ve ever wanted to know about motor racing, and at the same time celebrate the wonderful personalities and memorable events that have molded the sport of motor racing.
List price: $16.95
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Pro Sports Car Racing in America (Motorbooks Classic)
Penske, Shelby, Hall, Gurney, Hill, Ginther, Reventlow, Miles, Cunningham, Krause — these are the men who dominated sports car racing in North America at the start of the 1958 racing season. They had spent a lot of their own money on the hobby they loved, but now they wanted something back. They wanted to go pro.For the next 16 years, the cars became progressively faster, the competition hotter, and the stakes higher. But what was it really like to thread a factory-sponsored Porsche 917 or Ferrari 512 through the corkscrew at Riverside or to tromp the brake on a factory McLaren at the last possible deep spot of the Canadian Corner at Road America?. Few are fortunate to know first-hand, but for the rest, Dave Friedman’s photography straps you in the driver’s seat. More than 300 photos, many in color, relive the fastest, hottest, most intense racing in American history.
List price: $26.95 Sale price: $24.25
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Sports Car Racing in Camera 1960-69
Following the success of Hayness Formula 1 in Camera titles, the spotlight is turned towards sports car racing in the sixties. Meticulously researched photographs are brought to life through the authors well-observed and atmospheric commentary to create a visually stunning and highly nostalgic record of this dramatic decade.
Sports Car Racing in Camera, 1960–69 will appeal not only to motor racing enthusiasts but also to anyone interested in the racing history of sports car manufacturers.
List price: $54.95 Sale price: $34.62
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Powered by Jaguar: The Cooper,HWM,Tojeiro and Lister Sports-Racing Cars
This book became the standard reference work when the original edition was published in 1980, but his expanded edition digs much deeper into hitherto hazy background of some of the most famous cars. Deep research by the author has unraveled many mysteries of ownership. Nye devotes separate chapters to the cars of Cooper, HWM, Lister, and Tojeiro and includes track tests of an example of each by the late John Bolster, famed technical journalist with Autosport and a one-time Formula 1 driver.
List price: $59.95 Sale price: $38.20
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Ferrari: The Battle for Revival
The signing of reigning World Champion Michael Schumacher as Ferrari’s team leader for 1996, with Eddie Irvine as his team-mate, looks set to herald a renaissance for Grand Prix racing’s most famous team since Niki Lauda won in 1975 and 1977. This is the story of the revival.
List price: $18.98
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Sports Car Racing in Camera, 1970-79
The next book in the Sports Car Racing in Camera series looks at sports car racing in the 70’s. Meticulously researched photographs, all of them in color, are brought to life through the author’s well-observed and atmospheric commentary to create a visually stunning and highly nostalgic record of this multi-faceted decade. This glorious book will appeal not only to motor racing enthusiasts but also to anyone interested in the racing history of sports car manufacturers.
List price: $59.95 Sale price: $26.78
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British Touring Car Racing in Camera: A photographic celebration of 50 years
The first official British Saloon Car Championship was held in 1958, so 2008 marks the 50th anniversary of this ever-competitive, highly popular form of racing, now called the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC). This book will be a photographic sweep over the entire 50 years (with a preamble about pre-1958 saloon car racing), presented in the style of our Formula 1 in Camera titles, using as much color as possible. As the overview belo w shows, there have been plenty of well-known and exciting cars over the years, and numerous notable drivers too, including World Champions such as Mike Hawthorn, Jim Clark and Graham Hill and colourful characters such as Gerry Marshall, Barrie ‘Whizzo’ Williams and Tony Lanfranchi.
List price: $56.95 Sale price: $40.46
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