January 2018 Ferrari: Gli anni d’oro – The Golden Years By Leonardo Acerbi In his introduction, author Acerbi notes that...
December 2017 Le Mans: The Official History 1930-39 By Quentin Spurring This fine volume is a welcome addition to others...
November 2017 Great Cars no: 10 – Lotus 18, The Autobiography of Stirling Moss’s ‘912’ by Ian Wagstaff In a little more than two years, the Porter Press Great Cars series of books has already got my bookshelves groaning under the strain, from the first published in May 2015, which documents...
October 2017 Matra Racing DVD, The Rebirth Many years ago I was drawn to the vibrancy of the Matra pit...
September 2017 Stephen South – The Way It Was By Darren Banks Darren Banks has followed the careers of many...
August 2017 Cobra Pilote – The Ed Hugus Story By Robert D. Walker Ed Hugus was one of Carroll Shelby’s original cohorts in the Cobra project and, having owned the second Ferrari distributorship in the USA, provided business acumen that Shelby may have lacked. Plus, he actually funded the first...
July 2017 Porsche 914 – The Racing History By Roy Smith Writing about a subject is relatively easy when there...
June 2017 Racing to Riverside By Brad R. Leach This book is subtitled: “The Untold Story of Walt Hane and...
May 2017 Linda Vaughn: The First Lady of Motorsports By Linda Vaughn with Rob Kinnan If ever there were a book whose title totally identified its subject, this is it. Say no more. “Anybody” can be a “race queen,” but those who can pull it off properly enjoy a warm...
April 2017 Pit and Paddock – Behind the scenes at UK and European circuits in the ’60s and ’70s By...
March 2017 Thrill of the Chase By Colin Crabbe If ever you wanted to know anything—everything—about the Scottish sportsman Colin...
February 2017 Bruce McLaren – From the Cockpit By Bruce McLaren Although in very recent years the domination of the McLaren F1 Racing Team has faded in the wake of the dominant Red Bull and Mercedes outfits, there is a certain reverence to the name and the team. Over time,...
January 2017 Can-Am 50th Anniversary By George Levy and Pete Biro Can it really be 50 years since the Canadian-American...
December 2016 Tony Bettenhausen & Sons: An American Racing Family Album By Gordon Kirby with Merle and Susan Bettenhausen Family...
November 2016 FITZ: My Life At The Wheel By John Fitzpatrick John Fitzpatrick started racing in a Mini 850 and ended up in a Porsche 956B. In between he drove a variety of Ford Anglias, Escorts and Capris, the occasional Ferrari 250 LM, a couple of BMW 2800 CS and...
October 2016 Formula One The Knowledge By David Hayhoe If ever you wanted to study the records of the past...
September 2016 Lotus 18 Colin Chapman’s U-turn By Mark Whitelock Deciding on a theme, title or subject for a book...
Formula 1: All the Races, 1950-2015 By Roger Smith With the Formula One World Championship celebrating its 65th year and 935 races by the concluding race of last season—the Abu Dhabi GP in November, 2015—some fans may be asking where and when did it all begin? This third edition of...
Foyt, Andretti, Petty: America’s Racing Trinity By Bones Bourcier As we know, racing is a sport that has a way...
Augie Pabst: Behind the Wheel By Robert Birmingham Augie Pabst grew up an heir to the family brewing business, and one...
Brian Redman – Daring Drivers, Deadly Tracks By Brian Redman with Jim Mullen It’s always good to see a new book hit the shelves reminiscing about the era those of a certain age regard as the “golden years” of motor racing. Well-informed authors write many of these books, but their...
The Argentine Temporada Motor Races – 1950 to 1960 By Hernan Lopez Laiseca Originally organized as a way to prove...
2015 F5000 Revival Race Series By Checkered Flag Films Let’s get this over with right away. You need not read...
Grand Prix Ford: Ford, Cosworth and the DFV By Graham Robson One of the most beneficial results of Ford’s Total Performance campaign of the early 1960s was its involvement as an engine supplier for the Formula One World Championship. That involvement took the form of the DFV V8 (Double-Four-Valve) that...
Ford GT: How Ford Silenced the critics, Humbled Ferrari and Conquered Le Mans By Preston Lerner and Dave Friedman The...
First Principles: The Official Biography of Keith Duckworth By Norman Burr While we’ve had to wait a little longer than...
Formula 1 in Camera, 1960-69: Volume 2 By Paul Parker Thankfully, renown motor racing photographer Paul Parker has found a new publisher to continue his “In Camera” series, since Haynes no longer publish books of that type. It is a relief to know we’re not being deprived of another peek...
Bugatti type 57 Grand Prix – A Celebration By Neil Max Tomlinson To dispel myths and legends of any subject...
Lotus: The Marque By William Taylor Eleven years have passed since Mr. Taylor published the third in his series of...
Second to One: All but for Indy By Joseph Freeman and Gordon Kirby There’s a familiar saying in motor racing, and other sports, that nobody remembers who finished 2nd, and in most respects this is usually true. For the biggest race in the world, however, one might expect a bit...
