Cars - Motorsport Books

By: Nick Garton . Recent Formula 1 seasons have seen the established stars - most notably Michael Schumacher - being challenged by a hungry pack of young, little-known drivers. These 'young guns' have rapidly made names for themselves with...

By: Martin Pfundner . The predecessor of today's international rally sport, the alpine trials and rallies of 1910 onwards were an incredible test of endurance for early pioneers and their cars. Becoming ever more international, the event would...

By: Michael Frostick . The spectacular growth of the Rootes Group Competition Department since its modest beginnings with a 2-litre Sunbeam in 1946 is clear evidence that fiercely competitive motoring can bring two great benefits to the manufacturer: the...

By: Brooklands Books . Matra production started very slowly in 1965, a few hundred cars being sold in Europe, in the meantime their Formula 3 cars were having some successes.  The Djet 5 soon became the Djet 5S. The M530 was introduced in 1967 and...

By: Bill Price . For a quarter of a century from the mid 1950s Britain's leading motor manufacturer — first as the British Motor Corporation, then British Leyland — was committed to motorsport, predominantly rallying, as a means of improving...

By: Karl Ludvigsen . Few sports-racing cars have captured the imagination as did the Chaparrals, menacing white machines out of the Texas oil country that cut a swathe through American sports-car racing in the 1960s and even won at the Nurburgring and...

By: Ed McDonough . Book Description The late 1960s and early 1970s were a significant era in the world of international sports car racing. As the motor racing rule-making body moved back and forth between cars that less and less resembled road going...

By: Roy Smith . Sports prototype racing is about endurance, for the drivers, for the teams and for the companies involved. In this story we see the effort, the blood, the sweat and the tears, reputations won and lost, life and also death. The cars were...

By: Roy Smith . Sports prototype racing is about endurance – for the drivers, for the teams, and for the companies involved. Under the new management at Renault, and with assistance from Elf, the state-owned French oil company, Alpine made a...

UPDATED EDITION, Published in 2014, Author: Stuart Codling, ISBN: 9780760346075, 240 pages, 2nd hand book, like new condition Showcasing the inherent beauty and engineering brilliance of F1 race cars, this book highlights these magnificent...

2nd hand book in very good condition By: Christopher Hilton . Small, unfashionable, short of money – and the last of its kind to become a force in Grand Prix racing. The story of Toleman is not only fascinating and improbable, it has never been...

By: Stephen Stathis . Bathurst Group A Commodores: A Photographic History (Hard Cover): This unique 192 page Bathurst history book, with a foreword by Graham Moore, features many colour and black and white images (61 pages of colour and over 110 black...