2022 heralded a new dawn for the World Rally Championship with the introduction of hybrid Rally1 cars This book reviews the season on 240-pages The WRC reports are joined by those on WRC2, WRC3, JWRC and ERC. Theres a tribute to Irish rally legend Paddy Hopkirk as well as a series of stories about "Moving Moments" that took place in 2022.
Celebrating fifty seasons of the most spectacular motorsport, the World Rally Championship marries state-of-the-art technology with endurance and speed in a battle against both the clock and the elements of nature. Rallying is the mother of all motorsport. Mastering a car on gravel, snow and asphalt, in extreme heat, ice, rain, fog and darkness ......
The fastest ever rally cars and drivers wowed us all throughout the 2021 World Rally Championship. New events in Belgium, Croatia and the Arctic, together with the return of the legendary Safari and the Acropolis rallies, guaranteed the season was full of fresh intrigue. 2021 was also the final year for the current generation of WRC cars and a ......
The show must go on. This well-known phrase from show business lends itself perfectly to the WRC 2020 World Rally Championship. In March, just when the Covid-19 virus began spreading rapidly throughout Europe, the WRC was in Mexico, prematurely completing round three of the season. Like all professional sport, rallying came to an immediate ......
"The Swiss Wiz" was the nickname of Edi Wyss when he was a race mechanic in England at McLaren around 1970. The play on words sounds like "The Swiss magician" and characterizes precisely what was most appreciated about him, his absolute mastery of technical craftsmanship and his hands-on way of quickly finding a creative solution for every ......
Ferrari 250 GTE
Author of automotive books Ed Heuvink and car enthusiast Yvo Alexander - who has been the owner of a 1963 Ferrari 250 GTE for over twenty years - have joined forces to create this book about the 250 GTE.
The contents combine history, facts and figures, reproductions of historic documents as well as both ......
With racing cars being built mainly for performance, only few of them combine this with admirable beauty. Ferrari’s model 312 P is definitely such an example - thanks to the work of its designers Giacomo Caliri and Edmondo Casoli, but also Enzo Ferrari, who tried to stop the team adding wings or other aerodynamic additions to its beauty - even ......
The story of the mid-engined “Sharknose” Ferraris is one of glory and drama. Outstanding victories, such as winning the Formula 1 Championship in 1961 with American driver Phil Hill, are inextricably linked with profound tragedies - for example, the death of Wolfgang von Trips and fifteen spectators at the 1961 Italian Grand Prix in Monza. ......
Asked to sum up the Ford Escort, Markku Alén put it in fourwords: "Its a winners car." The front-engined, rear-wheel drive car triumphed all around the world, whether it was at the 1970 World Cup Rally, the East African Safari, in Swedish snow or on Finlands high-speed tracks. At its home event, the RAC Rally, the Mk1 and Mk2 versions proved ......
This edition of the book is limited to only 250 numbered copies, contains a hand signature of Hannu Mikkola and comes in a luxuary linen slip case.
The legendary Mk1 & Mk2 in rallying
Asked to sum up the Ford Escort, Markku Alén put it in fourwords: "Its a winners car." The front-engined, ......
The 1961 season was the first year of the new 1.5 litre regulations in Formula 1. Out of all the German car manufacturers, only one company, Porsche, had both the determination and the possibilitiy to enter this new class. In the beginning, a Porsche Spyder was converted to a monoposto, called a Type 718, and that was relatively successful. But ......
After featuring the legendary eras of Group B and Group 4 rallying, McKlein Publishing has now dedicated a book to the early years of the sport. “Group 2 – The genesis of world rallying” is a comprehensive review of the 1950s and 1960s. Then rallying was a big adventure, capable of capturing the imagination and enthusiasm of a Europe that was ......
Colin McRae, the 1995 World Rally Champion, combined natural speed and a win-or-bust approach, to become the favourite of rally fans worldwide. The word McRae became superfluous, Colin was … just Colin. He drove for a variety of top teams including Ford, Citroën and Skoda, however the flying Scotsman is best remembered for his exploits in blue ......
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