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Author : Giovanni Lurani Cernuschi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780690389401
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (894 download)
Download or read book History of the Racing Car: Man and Machine written by Giovanni Lurani Cernuschi and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Griffith Borgeson
Publisher : SAE International
ISBN 13 : 0768046831
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Golden Age of the American Racing Car written by Griffith Borgeson and published by SAE International. This book was released on 1998-12-12 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A best seller and winner of the Antique Automobile Club of America's prestigious Thomas McKean Award.The Golden Age of the American Racing Car emphasizes the human side of racing history, offering insight into the men who shaped the golden age. Covering a period of time from the 1910s through the 1930s, the book describes the historical development of race car technology and presents fascinating information on race courses, designers, builders, drivers, and events. Racing pioneers covered include: Fred Duesenberg, Louis Chevrolet, Harry Miller, Leo Goossen, and Fred Offenhauser.
Author : Pete Biro
Publisher : Motorbooks
ISBN 13 : 0760362211
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book F1 Mavericks written by Pete Biro and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: F1 Mavericks is the story of the grandest, most influential, and most fondly remembered era in Formula 1 racing as seen through the lens of master motorsports photographer, Pete Biro. The period from 1960 to 1982 saw the greatest technological changes in the history of Formula 1 racing: the transition from front engines to rear engines, narrow-treaded tires, massive racing slicks, zero downforce, and neck-wrenching ground effects—and, of course, a staggering increase in performance and reduction in lap times. In short, the period saw the creation of the modern Formula 1 car. This is also the time when legendary names who defined F1 were out in full force: Jim Clark, Jack Brabham, Dan Gurney, Sir Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill, Niki Lauda, James Hunt, Bruce McLaren, Jody Scheckter. We’ll see and meet all of them. But F1 Mavericks also focuses on the designers and engineers behind the cars—men like Colin Chapman, Sir Patrick Head, Maurice Philippe, Franco Rochhi, Gordon Murray, and many others. We’ll hear directly from many of them, including a foreword from 1978 F1 World Champion, Mario Andretti. Every chapter is a photographic account of key races throughout the period, supplemented with sidebars featuring key designers and technologies, like wings, ground effects, slick tires, turbochargers, and the Brabham “fan” suction car. F1 Mavericks is an international story, and includes loads of information on designs from Japan (Honda), Britain (McLaren, Tyrrell, Cooper, BRM) Italy (Ferrari, Maserati, Alfa Romeo), France (Matra, Ligier, Renault), Germany (Porsche, BMW) and the United States (Eagle, Shadow, Penske, Parnelli). Strap yourself in for the story of the greatest era in Formula 1 racing—it's all here in F1 Mavericks.
Author : George Levy
Publisher : Motorbooks
ISBN 13 : 9780760353943
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (539 download)
Download or read book Jim Hall written by George Levy and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Hall is the Charles Lindbergh of motor racing. The man who changed everything. Here, he tells his story for the first time. From racing's earliest days, the men who designed and built these land-bound rocket ships viewed the air that moved over, under, and around a car as ithauled toward 200 miles per hour as a nuisance with which they had to contend. It was Jim Hall who first saw how this nuisance could be turned not only into a force for good, but a breakthrough in vehicle performance. Today, racers call it “downforce”—the amount of downward force that can be exerted on a car’s tires to improve how well the vehicle stops, goes, and, most of all, grips the corners. Hall’s innovations made him both a hero and celebrity throughout the 1960s and ‘70s. He was on the cover of Newsweek and Sports Illustrated and featured in countless newspaper and magazine articles. TheNew York Times alone published 250 stories about Hall over the period. The Chaparral phenomenon reached Europe and Asia, and into seemingly every American home. Hall’s achievements made him more renowned than understood; he was a famously private individual. Part of it was a natural introspection and an almost obsessive focus on his goals. Part of it was the Texas-cowboy ethos that a man’s actions should count for more than his words. But now, in Jim Hall, he will finally tell his story. How he changed race car design. How he conquered the world’s greatest automakers from a tiny quad of steel-sided buildings on State Highway 349 in Midland, Texas. How he inspired a generation.
Author : Damion Sturm
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031228251
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)
Download or read book The History and Politics of Motor Racing written by Damion Sturm and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history and politics of motor racing, one of the most popular and lucrative elements in the international sport industry. Written by a group of international scholars and motor racing specialists it discusses the sport’s origins, the relationship of motor racing to nation building and modernity (noting its links to fascism and dictatorship), the links between motor racing and the automobile industry, motor racing and the politics both of gender and of race, motor racing, the media and postmodernity, and motor racing, the spatial and globalization. This book speaks to scholars in history, politics, sport studies, the sociology of sport, sport management and cultural studies, along with the many lay readers who are interested in the relationship between motor sport and society.
Author : Elsa A. Nystrom
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786470933
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Mad for Speed written by Elsa A. Nystrom and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers Joan Newton Cuneo's life, and her roles (from 1905 to 1915) as the premier female racer in the United States and spokeswoman for women drivers and good roads. Beginning with her family history and marriage to Andrew Cuneo, it traces her life in New York society, the birth of her children, and Joan's growing interest in automobile touring and racing and partnership with Louis Disbrow, her racing mechanic. The book covers Joan's experiences in three Glidden Tours, including her notes on the 1907 tour, her first races, and her rivals. It also looks at the growth and change of automobile culture and the battles for control of racing among the American Automobile Association, the Automobile Club of America, and the American Automobile Manufacturers Association--which ended in banishing women racers shortly after Joan's greatest racing victories at New Orleans (in 1909). The book then follows Joan's attempts to continue racing, the end of her marriage, her move to the Upper Peninsula, and her remarriage and death. The book also includes a chapter on her female rivals in racing and touring.
Author : Matt Stone
Publisher : Motorbooks
ISBN 13 : 1610601114
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book McQueen's Machines written by Matt Stone and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 2010-11-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 McQueen, and a wealth of details about of the star’s racing career, stunt work, and car and motorcycle collecting, McQueen’s Machines draws a fascinating picture of one outsized man’s driving passion. Now in paperback.
Author : Brock Yates
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Enzo Ferrari written by Brock Yates and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genius? Tyrant? Powerbroker? Finally, the first thoroughly researched, fully detailed biography of one of the most powerful and enigmatic men of the 20th century--Enzo Ferrari. Brock Yates penetrated Ferrari's inner circle and reveals everything from his bizarre relationship with his illegitimate son to his brilliant marketing of the famous Ferrari image. Fast, fun, scandalous, and informstive, Enzo Ferrari more than lives up to its remarkable subject.
Author : Brock Yates
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241977177
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Enzo Ferrari written by Brock Yates and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferrari means red. It means racing. Excellence, luxury, and performance. Less well-known is the man behind the brand. For nearly seventy years, Enzo Ferrari dominated a motor-sports empire that defined the world of high-performance cars. Next to the Pope, Ferrari was the most revered man in Italy. But was he the benign padrone portrayed by an adoring world press at the time, or was he a ruthless despot, who drove his staff to the edge of madness, and his racing drivers even further? Brock Yates's definitive biography penetrated Ferrari's elaborately constructed veneer and uncovered the truth behind Ferrari's bizarre relationships, his work with Mussolini's fascists, and his fanatical obsession with speed. "A fascinating and provocative book" The Observer.
Author : Basem Wasef
Publisher : MotorBooks International
ISBN 13 : 0760335486
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Legendary Race Cars written by Basem Wasef and published by MotorBooks International. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated profiles of the greatest motorsports pairings of man and machine, from the winner of the first Indy 500 race to the Audi R10 the dominated Le Mans for nearly a decade.
Author : Laura Petersen Balogh
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786454369
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Karl Dane written by Laura Petersen Balogh and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Dane's life was a Cinderella story gone horribly wrong. The immigrant from Copenhagen was rapidly transformed from a machinist to a Hollywood star after his turn as the tobacco-chewing Slim in The Big Parade in 1925. After that, Dane appeared in more than 40 films with such luminaries as Lillian Gish, John Gilbert and William Haines until development of talkies virtually ruined his career. The most famous casualty of the transition from silent to sound film, Dane reportedly lost his career because of his accent. He was broke and alone at the height of the Depression and committed suicide in 1934.
Author : Philippe Defechereux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781854432513
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Watkins Glen written by Philippe Defechereux and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Index -- Media Room Dvd 86 : Watkins Glen : The Street Years : 1948--1952.
Author : John Zimmermann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781893618824
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Dan Gurneys Eagle Racing Cars written by John Zimmermann and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every car produced by Dan Gurney's team is documented and described in detail. In-depth interviews are also included with Dan and key designers and fabricators reveal the challenges each car posed.
Author : Hal Butler
Publisher : Julian Messner
ISBN 13 : 9780671321192
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Roar of the Road written by Hal Butler and published by Julian Messner. This book was released on 1969 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the beginnings of auto racing and the men and machines that highlighted early races, the Grand Prix, oval track racing, and sports, stock, and midget car racing.
Author : Stuart Codling
Publisher : Motorbooks
ISBN 13 : 9780760344378
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Art of the Le Mans Race Car written by Stuart Codling and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le Mans is one of the longest-running and most spectacular endurance races in the history of motorsport. Spanning from the first 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1923 to the present day, Art of the Le Mans Race Car takes the reader through a visual review of 90 years of significant, stunning racing machines. Featured cars include racers from Bentley, Talbot, Alfa Romeo, Cunningham, Jaguar, Ferrari, Porsche, McLaren, and Audi, to name but a few. Striking studio photography specifically commissioned for this book from James Mann, one of the world's leading car and motorcycle photographers, highlights the functional art of race car engineering, allowing readers to lose themselves in the myriad of mechanical details within. Each car includes a profile setting out its place in Le Mans history, accompanied by historical images and commentary from drivers, designers, and engineers. Written by renowned journalist and broadcaster Stuart Codling, Art of the Le Mans Race Car offers a fresh, visually breathtaking telling of the beautiful vehicles that have graced the world's most beloved endurance race.
Author : Paul Baxa
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030979679
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Motorsport and Fascism written by Paul Baxa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first English-language study of motorsport and Italian Fascism, arguing that a synergy existed between motor racing and Fascism that did not exist with other sports. Motorsport was able to bring together the two dominant, and often opposed, cultural roots of Fascism, the Futurism of F. T. Marinetti, and the Decadence associated with Gabriele D’Annunzio. The book traces this cultural convergence through a topical study of motorsport in the 1920s and 1930s placing it in the context of the history of sport under Mussolini’s regime. Chapters discuss the centrality of speed and death in Fascist culture, the attempt to transform Rome into a motorsport capital, the architectural and ideological function of the Monza and Tripoli and autodromes, and two chapters on the importance of the Mille Miglia, a genuine Fascist artefact that became one of the most legendary motor races of all time.
Author : Mark Dill
Publisher : BookBaby
ISBN 13 : 1098335163
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (983 download)
Download or read book The Legend of the First Super Speedway written by Mark Dill and published by BookBaby. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Legend of the First Super Speedway," is a gritty tale punctuated by humor that chronicles the hero's journey through the pioneering age of American auto racing. It is a factual, previously untold story that must be read for a thorough understanding of auto racing history.
