Author : Graham Gauld
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2015-06-18
Category :
ISBN : 1845848535
The biography of Cliff Allison, who began motor racing over fifty years ago with a little Cooper 500. Very much a countryman at heart, Allison was not one of the party-going racing crowd, but a driver with a huge ambition to race in Formula 1. With 100 photos, full history and complete race results, this is a fascinating piece of motorsport’s past.
Author : Graham Gauld
Publisher : Veloce Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2008-06-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781845841508
This book is the biography of Cliff Allison who started motor racing over fifty years ago with a little Cooper 500. Very much a countryman at heart Allison was not one of the party-going racing drivers but a driver with a huge ambition to race in Formula 1. He and Graham Hill competed in the first grand prix race for Colin Chapman's Lotus team in 1958 and scored the first world championship points for Lotus. He later joined Ferrari and won the Argentine 1000kms sports car race with American co-driver Phil Hill as well as being a member of the Ferrari grand prix team in 1959 and 1960. Cliff Allison can also claim victories in many sports car events including winning the Index of Performance at Le Mans in 1957 with a 750cc Lotus Eleven-Climax. His racing career came to an end following an accident in the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa in 1961 driving a UDT-Laystall Cooper-Climax.
Author : Brian Long
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 25,87 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
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ISBN : 1787116298
Although not the fastest or the most powerful Ferrari, the beautiful lines of the Dino have inspired generations of enthusiasts. This book covers the full story of the Dino, from Pininfarina concept car to the final production model, illustrated throughout with contemporary material.
Author : Richard Skelton & Wilberforce de Forte
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 2016-03-16
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ISBN : 184584937X
A veteran motoring journalist’s extraordinary life, told through delightfully eccentric stories and charming diary extract. This unique book is packed with fascinating stories about classic cars and motorcycles, set in a bygone world, and properly fixed in time. (Fiction.)
Author : Stuart Turner
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 2019-02-22
Category :
ISBN : 178711497X
Covers the life of one of the greatest women rally drivers of all time, Pat Moss Carlsson. Sister to Stirling Moss, Pat had a highly successful career in show-jumping before moving into motorsport, going on to become European Ladies Rally Champion no fewer than five times.
Author : Terry O'Neil
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2020-01-30
Category :
ISBN : 1787117014
Luigi Chinetti's association with Ferrari, and the origins, formation and racing history of NART (North American Racing Team). A complex organisation, inextricably linked to Luigi Chinetti Motors Inc, NART enjoyed success on the race tracks of the US and Europe for three decades - as well as financial difficulties and arguments with organisers -Â to rightly become a legend.
Author : Terry O'Neil
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
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ISBN : 1787118436
Runways and Racers focuses on sports car races held at military installations throughout America in the early 1950s. It was a marriage of convenience for the Sports Car Club of America and the Strategic Air Command, with both parties gaining advantages from the arrangement. The thorn in the side turned out to be a Congressman whose own aspirations exceeded his standing, but who found himself in a position to be able to influence the outcome of events ...
Author : Robert Ackerson
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 2022-04-07
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ISBN : 178711886X
This book chronicles the development and racing career of a car regarded as the ultimate example of the purebred sports car of the 20th century and the epitome of functional beauty and extraordinary performance: the 1952 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL. Taking second place at its 1952 Mille Miglia debut, it went on to win every one of its races that season.
Author : Norman Burr
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 2019-04-12
Category :
ISBN : 1787115348
The authorised biography of one of the best-liked bad boys in British motorsport, John Chatham - driver, racer, repairer, rebuilder, tuner, trader and lover of Austin-Healeys. John is so synonymous with Austin-Healeys that the most famous racing Healey in the world, DD300, is so well-known mainly because John campaigned it for decades, notching up tens of thousands of racing miles. But his career embraces far more than one car, and until this biography no-one had attempted to fill in the gaps. With 150 photographs, many previously unpublished, this is an important and entertaining account of one of motorsport's biggest characters.
Author : Roy P Smith
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 36,16 MB
Release : 2022-03-09
Category :
ISBN : 1787118622
This is the story of a man, a team, and their life and times, as well as a complete record of all their achievements and failures. It logs the financial and personal cost of racing in the prewar and postwar periods. It tells of how the mighty car company Renault became involved with them in the late 1950s, and how Amedee Gordini became known throughout the world as one of the greatest engine tuners of his time.
