- Sports
Racing Cars: Expert Analysis Of Fifty Motor Racing Greats-
Anthony Pritchard’s authoritative book describes 50
iconic cars from the history of sports car racing, from
the 1923 Lorraine-Dietrich through to the 2003 Bentley Speed
8. As the extraordinary annual British (Bentley?) pilgrimage
to Le Mans demonstrates, sports car racing has myriad enthusiastic
fans who will relish the blend of meticulous research, informed
analysis, dramatic photographs, and cutaway diagrams.
- Powered
by Jaguar: The Cooper, HWM, Lister & Tojeiro Sports-Racing
Cars -This book became the standard reference work when
the original edition was published in 1980, but his expanded
edition digs much deeper into hitherto hazy background of
some of the most famous cars. Deep research bentley by the
author has unraveled many mysteries of ownership. Nye devotes
separate chapters to the cars of Cooper, HWM, Lister, and
Tojeiro and includes track tests of an example of each by
the late John Bolster, famed technical journalist with Autosport
and a one-time Formula 1 driver.
- Driven:
The Motorsport Photography of Jesse Alexander, 1954-1962
-Driven collects the best of internationally acclaimed racecar
photographer Jesse Alexander's work taken between 1954-1962,
the height of the golden age of the European Grand Prix. During
the pinnacle of continental glamour, Alexander took his camera
throughout Europe, following this intimate group of fearless
racecar drivers from Grand Prix to Mille Miglia, and capturing
their heroic wins and narrow defeats. In one photograph Jackie
Stewart accepts the Grand Prix trophy cup from Prince Rainier
and Princess Grace. Alexander's images hum with an energy
and seduction second only to the sleek bodies and powerful
engines of these now vintage Maseratis, Mercedes, Ferraris,
and Porsches. His captions describe the blower renegade adventures,
dangerous courses, and technological breakthroughs of the
time
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