Description
Author: Antony Pritchard, ISBN: 9781845846237, Hardback, Published in 2014, 416 pages
Limited Edition - 1500 copies.
Features
- The only book on Ferrari’s motor sport history in print
- The racing history of motor sport’s most important marque
- Comprehensive racing histories of each type entered by the works
- Full racing race results for each model, together with chassis numbers
- Superbly illustrated with 300 colour and black and white photographs
- Ferrari has the longest unbroken Formula 1 competition history
- A marque worshipped with religious fervour by the ‘Tifosi’
- Ferrari attracts more supporters than all other teams combined
- From the leading authority on Ferrari’s racing activities
Grand Prix Ferrari is a brilliantly comprehensive, accurate account of the most important team in the history of motor racing. The highly readable and informative text is supported by 300 interesting, and often striking, photographs.
Synopsis
The history of racing Ferraris is extremely complex, with a succession of brilliant, interesting, and sophisticated competition cars that have vied for supremacy on the race tracks of the world for over 60 years. In this book, author Anthony Pritchard, a leading motor racing historian and a keen enthusiast of the marque, presents an enthralling narrative of Ferrari’s racing history. With detailed model development tables, racing specifications, chassis numbers, and comprehensive race results, this account of Ferrari’s formidable motor racing history is supported with 300 colour and black and white photographs.
Additional Information
Covers the period 1948-80, and Ferrari Formula 1 single-seater racing cars. These were almost all works-entered cars and there were approximately 30 different types.
An important and unique work on the most important and unique motor racing marque.
Written by the leading authority on Ferrari’s motor racing history.
Highly detailed and comprehensive, this book is the perfect companion for all Tifosi and motor racing enthusiasts.
Chapters:
Acknowledgements 5
Introduction 6
From inception to power – The 1500cc supercharged cars, 1948-51 12
Duel of the giants – The 4500cc grand prix cars, 1950-53 34
The Thin Wall specials – 1951-54 59
Four seasons of unsupercharged supremacy – The V12 Formula Two cars, 1948-5170
Two seasons of unbroken success – The four-cylinder Formula Two cars, 1952-53 84
The price of complacency – The 2500cc Formula One cars, 1954-55 108
Borrowed plumes – The Lancia-Ferrari V8 cars, 1954-57 138
A new breed of Ferrari – The V6 Formula Two cars, 1957-60 171
Champion grand prix cars – The Dino V6 cars, 1957-60 177
Indianapolis and Monzanapolis, 1956-58 – Ferrari in the Indianapolis and Monza 500 Mile Races 214
From power to mediocrity – The V6 rear-engined cars, 1961-63 218
Eights & twelves – The V6, V8 and flat-12 grand prix cars, 1964-65 249
The decline of the V12 – The three-litre V12 grand prix cars, 1966-69 263
Dinos for Formula Two and Tasman racing – The V6 Formula Two and Tasman cars, 1967-71 295
Maranello renaissance – The 312B, 312B2 and 312B3 cars, 1970-73 306
Return to power: the championship years – Lauda, Montezemola, the 312B3 and the 312Ts, 1974-77 340
The final years of the flat-12 – 312T3, 312T4 and 312T5, 1978-80 379
Appendices 403
Index 415
