Continental Circus - The Races and the Places, the People and the Faces

Continenat Circus - Pictrues and stories from the early seventies.
Author Jan & Hetty Burgers, ISBN: 9789091863957, Number of Pages: 192, Hardbound

It took Dutch photographer duo Jan and Hetty Burgers and motorcycle journalist Frank Weeink nearly two years to complete "Continental Circus - The Races and the Places, the People and the Faces". Their collective effort has made for a unique "Best of" book which paints a sometimes touching, often revealing and always spectacular picture of motorcycle racing both on and off track - throughout the early and mid seventies. More than 6,000 photos, many forgotten by Jan and Hetty and rediscovered here, made it to the first selection and over 400 of them finally made it into the book. All time greats like Giacomo Agostini, Phil Read, Jamb Saarinen and Barry Sheene are featured, as are crowd favourites like Johnny Cecotto, Kenny Roberts, Jack Findlay, Tom Herron, Dave Simmonds and Teuvo Lansivuori. But the book also puts the often unseen heroes - the mechanics, the wives and the girlfriends into the limelight while taking the reader on a tour to iconic tracks like Spa-Francorchamps, the Nurburgring and Montjuich. This extraordinary mix makes "Continental Circus - The Races and the Places, the People and the Faces" a "must have" for every bike racing fan.