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  • Speed Read F1

    The Technology, Rules, History and Concepts Key to the Sport

    by Stuart Codling ...
    Series series Speed Read
    Get instant access to the history, technology, drivers, rivalries, racing circuits, and business of Formula 1 in this beautifully designed and illustrated essential guide from Motorbooks’ Speed Read series.The world racing championship that now encompasses 20 (and counting) annual races across five continents started in the European racing scene between the first and second world wars. It’s been a ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • Winning

    The Racing Life of Paul Newman

    by Matt Stone, Preston Lerner ...
    Winner of International Automotive Media Gold Award 2010 For all his fame as one of Hollywood's great actors, a world-class humanitarian, and the proprietor of a natural food empire, the late Paul Newman had another intriguing facet that was less known and perhaps closer to his heart than all the rest of his well-chronicled life. He was an avid, successful and well respected car racer and team ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Growing Up NASCAR: Racing's Most Outrageous Promoter Tells All

    Racing's Most Outrageous Promoter Tells All

    by Humpy Wheeler,Peter Golenbock ...
    In 1949, when Humpy Wheeler was 11, he attended the very first NASCAR race. For the next ten years, he spent as much time in the pits as he could, and came to know many of the sport's pioneers. Eventually, Wheeler began promoting races at Carolina tracks such as Concord Speedway, Robinwood Speedway, and Starlight Speedway. Racing was so rough back then he kept a gun by his side when he paid the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Muscle Cars

    by Mike Mueller ...
    Series series First Gear
    The 1960s and early 1970s were the age of raw American automotive power. Whether it was a classic Hemi ‘Cuda, Pontiac GTO, Charger, or Boss Mustang, big engines were king at local drag strips and cruises. Muscle Cars explores this era and the current models with a broad survey of classic muscle and today’s new machines. Each chapter is organized around a theme (milestones, factory racers, etc), ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Inside Shelby American

    Wrenching and Racing with Carroll Shelby in the 1960s

    by John Morton ...
    "More than just a well-written telling of Morton's early racing career . . . an incredible, no-holds-barred look into the goings-on at Shelby American." — Classic MotorsportsIn the late 1950s, a young John Morton was transfixed with sports car racing. His dreams of competition eventually led him to enroll, in 1962, in the Shelby School of High Performance Driving. In a bold moment after the last ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • McQueen's Machines: The Cars and Bikes of a Hollywood Icon

    The Cars and Bikes of a Hollywood Icon

    by Matt Stone,Chad McQueen ...
    No other Hollywood star has been so closely linked with cars and bikes, from the 1968 Ford Mustang GT Fastback he drove in Bullitt (in the greatest car chase of all time) to the Triumph motorcycle of The Great Escape. McQueen's Machines gives readers a close-up look at the cars and motorcycles McQueen drove in movies, those he owned, and others he raced. With a foreword by Steve's son, Chad ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Cutting Edge

    The Story of Kiwi Motorsport Legend Rod Millen

    by Rod Millen ...
    Series series Easy Recipes
    One of New Zealand’s greatest rally drivers and a hill-climbing superstar tells his inspiring story for the very first time. Rod Millen was a hero of New Zealand rallying in the 1970s. Having won several championships he quickly established himself as New Zealand's number one driver. But thereafter Millen went on to do what very few Kiwis have achieved, finding podium success in American ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • The Indianapolis 500

    A Century of Excitement

    by Ralph Kramer ...
    The Greatest Spectacle in RacingSince the dawn of automotive racing, the world's best drivers have tested their skills, bravery and the limits of speed in the legendary Indianapolis 500. The winner claims the historic Borg-Warner Trophy, and racing immortality.Officially licensed in cooperation with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis 500: A Century of Excitement tells the compelling and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mini

    by Gillian Bardsley ...
    Series Book 757 - Shire Library
    The Mini, now an emblem of the Swinging Sixties, was in fact the product of an age of austerity and shortage, a simple design intended to make motoring more accessible and affordable for the average family. Ironically, it would become something very different: a modern, classless style icon that appealed across the boundaries of social status, age and gender and lent its name to everything from ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • Speed Read Car Design

    The History, Principles and Concepts Behind Modern Car Design

    by Tony Lewin ...
    Series series Speed Read
    This beautifully designed and illustrated essential guide to car design from Motorbooks' Speed Read series traces the inspirations of the first car designers and tracks the craft, the art, and the science that have propelled successive generations of designers and shaped the contours of the vehicles we see all around us.Never before has the car-buying public been more aware of how a car's design ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Too Young To Die Chris Bristow English Racer

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Chris Bristow was a promising English racer who died very young while attempting to pass Willy Mairesse's Ferrari at Spa-Francorchamps during the Belgian Grand Prix of 1960. In doing so he took a line that caused him to veer off the circuit and was it impossible for him to recover from. Bristow's Cooper was one of two fatalities at Spa on that Sunday afternoon. The other driver, also English, was ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "TV" Tommy Ivo

    Drag Racing's Master Showman

    by Tom Cotter ...
    2011 International Automotive Media Gold Award WinnerIn the early 1960s, Tommy Ivo had the world in the palm of his hands. Still a young man, he was already a star of television and film with a promising Hollywood future ahead of him. Then his producers told him he had to quit drag racing. He quit the entertainment industry instead.This is the official story of Ivo’s incredible life and racing ... Read more

    $20.99 USD