Le Mans, Nascar, Sports Cars

By: Phil Kerr ., 2nd hand book in excellent like new condition Description A Kiwi insider's evocative account of working with Bruce Mclaren, Jack Braham, Denny Hulme and many others during en era of motorsport marked by both Trimph and Tragedy. The 1960s...

By: Brooklands Books . Like so many other people who have successfully turned their hobbies into careers, in a relatively short space of time Eric Broadley, the man behind Lola, switched from being a civil engineer who enjoyed weekend motor racing to...

By: Norm Mort . This book covers British cars powered by American engines and American cars fitted with British power plants, built during 1930s-1970s. Many of the American-powered British makes offered for sale were often constructed with everything...

By: Paul Parker . Following the success of Haynes' 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...

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: 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...

By: Ralph Kramer . 100 years after the transformation from cornfields and pastureland to a playground unlike any other, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has become an international icon as the world's greatest racing venue. In conjunction with the 100th...

By: Anthony Pritchard . The success of British sports/racing cars during the 1950s was an integral part of the growth of British motor racing power in the post-war years. Two major British teams led from the front, Aston Martin and Jaguar...they...

By: Paul Parker . Description Though the 1970s started and finished with Porsche domination, the decade's sports car racing saw a wide range of cars and drivers take part in dramatic races on some of the world's greatest tracks. The atmosphere of sports...

By: Bob Zeller . The story of stock car racing at Daytona Beach, Florida is rich with color and characters. It all began in the 1930s, when drivers competed on a makeshift track of hard-packed beach sand on one side and a public roadway on the other. But...