This sixth opus in the Car Racing series continues to delve into the archives of the DPPI photographic agency, coming up with an impressive selection of shots, most of them previously unpublished, unusual or particularly striking. Dedicated to the 1970 motorsport season, this volume offers readers total immersion in a bygone era, when ......
The definitive illustrated history of the exotic sports cars and supercars of McLaren Automotive. When the McLaren Formula 1 team set up McLaren Cars and launched the revolutionary, iconic F1 road car in 1992, it turned the supercar world upside down. McLaren wouldnt make another road car itself until it formed McLaren Automotive in 2010. It ......
The authorized biography of a polymath racecar engineer.
This biography of Bill Sadler tells the story of an innovator who set the racing world astir with his boldly inventive cars. His original creations--including the Formula Libre and the Sadler Mark V--brought him racing victories at tracks such as Watkins Glen ......
One of the greatest drivers of his generation, Jim Hall is even better known as an innovator. From his tiny shop in Midland, Texas emerged a series of Chaparrals that changed the face of racing. His high-winged Chaparral 2E Can-Am car and 2F World Sportscar Championship contender may be the most influential race vehicles of the 20th century. ......
This years championship has been dominated by Red Bull Racing, and in particular Max Verstappen who has already clinched the 2023 Drivers F1 World Championship as has the team clinching the F1 Constructors title a few races earlier.
Authors Tony Dodgins and Maurice Hamilton, combining 80 years of F1 expertise, examine each Grand Prix ......
WRC
The 2023 World Rally Championship has once again proved to be another spectacular thriller.
With defending champion Kalle Rovanpera currently leading the way, both Elfyn Evans and Thierry Neuville are hot on his heels, each hungry for ......
Learn the entire fascinating story of the American Hot Rod Association (AHRA) in this wonderfully illustrated color history.
When the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) was formed in 1951 by Wally Parks, the reasoning for the formation was to "create order from chaos" by instituting safety rules and performance standards that helped ......
From all of the team’s Falcon and Mustang Supercars, its first foray into V8 Supercars racing in 2003 under the banner of Ford Performance Racing, right through its Prodrive Racing Australia era into today’s Tickford Racing.
New paperback edition! There are still those who see the Porsche 914 model as a funny little car, compared to the immortal 911. Granted, in its day, professional rally drivers were not keen on the 914: they were nervous driving it at the limit. Yet the records show that 914s were driven to at least 41 class wins, and at least 71 positions on ......
The names of events like Monza and Monaco, Spa-Francorchamps and the Safari Rally and those of drivers like John Surtees, Niki Lauda, Walter Röhrl, Bruce McLaren and Phil Hill evoke the great years of motor racing and rallying. With the McKlein Classic Calendar, every month you can embellish your wall with photographs from that era featuring ......
Kalle Rovanperä sets off fireworks at Col de Braus, Takamoto Katsuta tries to launch himself into orbit in Mexico, and Thierry Neuville clears snow in Sweden. Experience the highlights of the 2023 WRC season in appropriate widescreen format. The official wall calendar of the FIA World Rally Championship remains the largest of its type. “McKlein ......
In 2023, the World Rally Championship was a half-century old but, as every year, the McKlein "Desktop Rally Calendar" 2024 edition offers the best photos from more than fifty years plus two earlier decades of international rallying. As always, each fortnight it presents the rally fan with a choice between either classic or modern. The two ......
Life comes at you fast when youre traveling 180 miles per hour. For Ted Giovanis, its also where you can learn the most valuable lessons.
In forty-eight accessible and inspiring chapters, he shares the experience hes gained since starting an auto racing career at age forty-six, a ride of three decades that is still in overdrive. He ......
How did events unfold in rallying in 2023? Thirteen rounds in the World Championship over four continents in the second year of Rally1 Hybrids, plus the European and German Championships. The latest edition of the ultimate rally yearbook again combines the best images with background reports, insider stories and results.
“Rallying ......
The third volume in a definitive history of Porsches racing cars, bringing the story right up-to-date. Illustrated throughout with contemporary photography sourced from the factory, this book serves as the perfect record of Porsches motorsport exploits from 2006 onwards. Written by an acknowledged Porsche expert, with the full ......
More than 300 rare full-color and black-and-white behind-the-scenes images from father-and-son photographers who were granted unprecedented access to Formula 1 races, drivers, and cars. Renowned automotive photographer Daniel Reinhard and his father, Josef (Sepp) Reinhard, have enjoyed unprecedented access to Formula 1 races and drivers since ......
10 June 1907, Peking. Five cars set off in a desperate race across two continents on the verge of revolution.
An Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a conman and various journalists battle over steep mountain ranges and across the arid vastness of the Gobi Desert. The contestants need teams of ......
Unconventional, flamboyant, ground-breaking, colourful, controversial - the Benetton Formula 1 team was all of those things. Defying perceptions as the rebels of Formula 1, Benetton achieved great success, particularly in the two glorious seasons of 1994 and 1995 when the team swept aside the big names - Williams, McLaren and Ferrari - to claim ......
A crash course in the exciting world of professional motor racing
Formula One Racing For Dummies has all the information you need to start following this exciting motor sport. Youll learn the basic dynamics and rules of F1, and youll get a primer on the drama, strategies, politics, and rivalries that have ......
Starting from the Back of the Grid: Misadventures Inside Formula Ones Flying Circus is the hilarious and endearing story of how an academic flop with a prodigious talent for getting into embarrassing situations somehow succeeds in the glamorous world of Formula One.
The author, a TV producer and occasional ......
Peter Geoffrey Brock AM, known as Peter Perfect The King of the Mountain or simply Brocky was an Australian motor racing driver. No other driver in the history of Australian motor racing can challenge the record of Peter Brock, who dominated the sport for almost four decades.
Supercars Bathurst Complete Race Collection 2003 BOB JANE T-MARTS 1000
It began with the so-called ‘Lap of the Gods’ 2m06.9s lap in qualifying from Greg Murphy (a feat that wouldn’t be matched in the top 10 shootout for 14 years), and it ended in similar fashion as Murphy and Rick Kelly raced on to score a dominant victory in their ......
Delve into the exhilarating world of the Indianapolis 500 with "A Journey Through Time and Tarmac". This comprehensive book offers readers an unprecedented look into the heart and soul of the worlds most legendary car race. With a detailed examination of its history, innovations, and cultural significance, the narrative not only celebrates the ......
Gibson Technology has grown into the most prolific winner at Le Mans and across global sports-prototype racing, but it can trace its roots all the way back to one man making electrical components on his kitchen table. This new book from Porter Press International tells the full story of how a small British engineering company founded by Bill ......
Amaroo Park Raceway holds a special place in the history of Australian motorsport and a special place in the hearts of race fans all over the country.
The now-defunct circuit in Sydney hosted a wide range of racing action from its opening in 1967 right through to the last race held there in 1998.
On this special Seven Sport ......
Formula One is more popular and more exciting than ever, and you can learn about its fascinating history and heritage in this brilliant and unique quiz book!
The greatest motorsport on the planet is now as competitive as it has been in years, as Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and a host of other ......
An analysis of the technical evolution of the Formula 1 cars during the course of 2020, 2021 and 2022 seasons through hundreds of drawings accompanied by painstakingly accurate technical/sporting texts. Three remarkable seasons for Formula 1, firstly with the pandemic - which drastically reduced the 2020 championship - to Red Bulls return to ......
The 2002 race was reminiscent of Allan Moffat’s barnstorming 1971 win in his all-conquering Falcon GTHO Phase III. Not because the 2002 winner was also a Falcon – it wasn’t, instead it was another win for Holden and its factory Holden Racing Team. What was similar about the two races 31 years apart was the blustery wind conditions on race day. ......
Authentic Collectables are very proud to announce an exciting, limited edition hard cover book project being produced with Dick Johnson and acclaimed author John Smailes titled Dick Johnson Racing: The First To 1000 - Celebrating 1000 Championship Races 1981-2022.
Dick Johnson Racing is without doubt one of the most iconic teams in ......
A definitive and intriguing biography of Max Verstappen, Formula 1s superstar, Lewis Hamiltons great rival, and the winner of the 2021 and 2022 World Drivers Championships.
A definitive and intriguing biography of Max Verstappen, Formula 1s superstar, Lewis Hamiltons great rival and the winner of the 2021 and ......
This book captures the amazing history of Triple Eight Race Engineering and all of its Falcon and Commodore race cars, from its first foray into V8 Supercars racing in 2003 right through to the current cars.
Released in 2023 - the teams 20th anniversary season - the 400 page book follows on from the sold-out Dick Johnson Racing ......
*A Wall Street Journal, Southern Indie, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller*
Stock-car racing star, country singer, and sports broadcaster Kyle Petty shares his familial legacy, intertwined with NASCARs founding and history, in Swerve or Die--written with Pulitzer Prize-winner Ellis ......
The 2000 race will forever be remembered as the day of the Big Wet, with the Bathurst region being deluged by rain that began earlier in the week and continued right through until race day. It was so bad that by the weekend the spectator carpark became unusable to all vehicles other than off-road four-wheel-drives. The rain didn’t let up on ......
The gruelling Bathurst 1000 is a race like no other: from the early days 60 years ago when ordinary road cars were pitted against one another in the toughest test imaginable to todays ultra-professional Supercars. Its the Melbourne Cup of Australian motor racing.
Every one of those first 60 years is captured here in great pictures and ......
Mauro Forghieri, the legendary engineer for Ferrari cars, who died in 2022, dictated the story of his working life with Ferrari to Daniele Buzzonetti before his death. In this new book, Buzzonetti turns that story into a riveting read, that will fascinate all lovers of endurance and F1 motor racing.
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