March 2001 The Rise and Fall of a Motor Racing Legend By Mike Lawrence You can’t say he didn’t warn...
September 2001 Trans-Am, The Pony Car Wars 1966-1972 By Dave Friedman In 1965, the SCCA’s executive director, John Bishop, had...
Harnessing Horsepower – The Pat Moss Carlsson Story By Stuart Turner The name of Moss, of course, is written large in motor racing annals, but there is more to it than simply Sir Stirling. This biography is about his younger sister, Pat, who died of leukemia in 2008. In the...
February 2000 Modena Racing Memories By Graham Gauld In the 1950s and early 1960s, Modena was at the center of...
August 2001 Monaco Driving Shoe By Piloti On the whole, racing-grade driving shoes tend to have two drawbacks: 1) Because...
June 2000 Strictly Off The Record By Louis T. Stanley Louis Stanley has taken a lifetime of privileged access in motor sports and brought it to the readers’ eyes, both with words and in pictures. He spent 20 years as chairman of the BRM Motor Racing Team, bringing them from...
Tom Tjaarda Master of Proportions by Gautam Sen While there are a number of post-war automotive designers that have penned...
February 2001 Oversteer By Ken Vose Originally released in 1992 and now back in print, Oversteer is Ken Vose’s first...
December 2001 Mario Andretti—A Driving Passion By Gordon Kirby If you excessively break the speed limit – almost anywhere in the world – chances are good that as you roll down the window the officer will ask you, “Who do you think you are, Mario Andretti?” Without exaggeration, there is...
Fine Art Auto Racing Posters The artworks in this book show the history of the car from its creation up...
April 2000 Porsche 917 By Peter Morgan When racers and enthusiasts are asked to name the greatest racing car of...
In 1986, Porsche introduced the Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe (PDK) transmission at Le Mans. While a road-going version wouldn’t hit the streets until 2007, the automotive world got their glimpse of what the PDK could do and would eventually become in the Rothman Porsche’s car No. 3, a 962C driven by Vern...
QPRS—F1 Grand Prix Racing by the Numbers 1950–2019 By Clyde Berryman I’ve known Clyde Berryman for now almost 20 years....
Editor Casey Annis selects some of his favorite 2020 book choices for the automotive enthusiast. Shadow—The Magnificent Machines of a...
Sam’s Scrapbook: My motorsports memories By Sam Posey with John Posey Even the most casual racing enthusiast will recognize the name Sam Posey. Posey raced a huge variety of sports cars, saloons and open-wheel machines in numerous racing arenas — Can-Am, USRRC, Trans-Am, IMSA, Indy, NASCAR, Formula 5000 and Formula...
Niki Lauda: His Competition History By Jon Saltinstall Niki Lauda’s Racing career will forever be remembered for his horrifying crash,...
January 2004 Race Legends of the Fabulous Fifties By Art Evans For many racers and fans the 1950s harbor a...
For many years, it was thought that Richie Ginther—one of Formula One’s best known drivers of the 1960s—had, in his later life, become an angry and reclusive drunk. The classic, archetypal hero-to-zero tale. But Ginther was a thinker and an innovator that overcame much to reach the pinnacle of 1960s...
Lotus 72—1970–75 By Pete Lyons Foreword by Emerson Fittipaldi Longtime readers of VR&R will be well acquainted with the...
July 2001 Alberto Ascari By Karl Ludvigsen This book is yet another in the critically acclaimed series of books from...
Meister Bräuser: Harry Heuer’s Championship Racing Team by Tom Schultz In early 1959, young Harry Heuer, Executive Vice President of the Peter Hand Brewery, Chicago, Illinois, caught the racing bug. He immediately bought a race carand entered it in the May 1959 Meadowdale USAC professional race. At the same time,...
July 2000 Maserati Days By G. Cancellieri Maserati – the name brings to mind blood-red cars, high revving precision engines...
Porsche in the Monte Carlo Rally 1952–1982 By Patrick Daase & Maurice Louche In 1968, Porsche won the Monte Carlo...
October 2003 Daytona 24 Hours By J.J. O’Malley In the world of professional sports car racing, only two events have universal name recognition—even among the most casual of fans—the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 24 Hours of Daytona. While countless books have been written about Le Mans over...
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. – Desiderius...
Lost in Time Formula 5000 in North America By John Zimmermann Readers of VR&R will be well acquainted with the...
February 2002 Mintex Man By Guy Loveridge with Bob Richardson Affectionately known as the “Mintex Man,” Lionel Clegg was one of the many people in postwar Britain who was extemely influential in the development of British motorsport, yet received none of the accolades that he likely deserved. Become a Member...
This book is about a unique car in sports car racing history. It was designed by Peter Brock, famous for...
Maserati 300S By Walter Bäumer The Maserati 300S was one of the most successful sports racing cars of the...
June 2001 The Works MGs By Mike Allison & Peter Browning The racing history of the MG Car Company dates as far back as 1924. This long, illustrious history is so well known and so well documented that you may be asking yourself whether we need another account of MG’s...
