Seed Achievements celebrates success and heroism. Few events in the twentieth century have inspired as much admiration as the conquest of time on land, at sea, and in the air....
The fast paced world of competitive auto racing from vintage models to American stock cars to the Le Mans endurance event are covered with full color photographs and cutaway illustrations...
Not only has Cosworth designed and supplied many race car engines, which won F1, CART, and many other Championship races, but it has also produced many celebrated high-performance road-car engines....
Bernie Ecclestone is best known as the architect and figurehead of modern Formula One, but he has been a constant and often controversial presence in both Formula One and British...
From Abarth to Zimmermann, here is an exhaustive A-Z guide to the racing cars built to the major international formulae: thousands of types built by more than 500 constructors through...
Every swift and powerful competition car from the 1914 Peugeot to today's Lotuses, McLarens, and Matras. Every swift and inspired driver from Boillt, DePalma, Barnato, and Nuvolari to Fangio, Moss,...
Carl G. Fisher did not live the American dream--he made the American dream. The dirt-poor Indiana boy built his dreams into vast fortunes, nothing was impossible to Carl G. Fisher....
What is the fastest corner in the world? Where will you find Maternity Bend? What g-force is experienced around Monza¹s Parabolica? World Motor Racing Circuits answers these questions and many...
You will smile throughout this book with its dry humor and obvious enthusiasm for autos and their history of the great American marques…Wonder where naugahyde comes from? A must read...
More auto racing has taken place in Southern California than any other equal-area place in the world. Where They Raced - LAP2 provides details and descriptions of over 170 racing...
This is a selection of posters from Shell''s advertising campaigns between the 1920s and 1950s. Among the artists commissioned for the posters were Paul Nash, Vaness a Bell, Rex Whistler...
People lie, cheat, steal and even kill for a variety of reasons, one of which is to go motor racing, a particularly expensive and egotistical sport. This intriguing book, the...
Selwyn Francis Edge, invariably known simply as ‘SF’, was a highly significant pioneer of motoring in Britain. When, in 1902, he drove a Napier to victory in the Gordon Bennett...
The legendary automotive designer and manufacturer Shelby American didn’t last long, but it was a flame that burned incandescently before being extinguished by corporate politics. In less than a decade,...
This fascinating book gives the reader a look at how the world's fastest racing cars are designed, developed, and how they work. Cutaways of dozens of great cars. Well written...
A statement on the richness of automotive creativity as expressed in sports- and GT-racing cars. Traces more than 60 years of world-class racing machines, racing tracks, historical backgrounds, competitive entanglements,...
A statement on the richness of automotive creativity as expressed in sports- and GT-racing cars. Traces more than 60 years of world-class racing machines, racing tracks, historical backgrounds, competitive entanglements,...
Peter Holthusen recalls the challenges, dangers, disappointments, tragedies and triumphs that have characterized record-breaking attempts from the very beginning. Holthusen reconsiders the famous careers of Frenchman Camille Jenatzy and Leon...
Alain Prost has published this book in co-authorship with Pierre-Francois Rousselot, a highly experienced and active driver, as well as an accomplished journalist. This book may be interesting for a...
Third in a series of annual reviews of vintage sports-car racing in Europe, covers 1983. Special sections on Jaguar and the GP of Lausanne.plus races at Mugello, Zandvoort, Brand Hatch,...
Americans have raced on more than 6,000 racetracks, road courses and drag strips, at home and abroad, since an American Duryea and a German Benz met in the snow in...
Stuffed with never-before-seen photography, stories,and race results, Bronco Racing: Ford’s Legendary 4x4 inOff-Road Competition is the most definitive publication everon this marque’s racing success! In 1965, legendary builder and off-road...