This is the story of a particular Alfa Romeo model range that was the car to beat in competition, in races such as Targa Florio and the Mille Miglia. The 6c enjoyed a lengthy reign at the top, with the crack drivers of the day running private entries if they were unable to secure a works drive, rath..
Today’s Grand Prix are dominated by Ferrari, but the achievement of this Italian team is nothing to the success achieved by Alfa Romeo more than fifty years before, with a single car. That car was the Alfa Romeo 158 or Alfetta. It raced successfully in the years before World War 2, in the peri..
World War II was over, spirits were high, and the sport of road racing was about to begin again in America. The Sports Car Club of America, formed in 1944, became the primary organiser of road racing in the years following the end of World War Two, although being involved in this sport had not been ..
When Giovanni Bertone opened his small artisan workshop in Turin in 1912 for the construction of horse drawn carriages, he never thought he was starting out on a long, multi-form but gratify¬ing adventure, which has now celebrated its 90th anniversary. This publication in two volumes retraces the pr..
This is ‘the’ book on Grand Prix racing on the San Sebastian circuit over the period 1923-1930 and 1933-35 inclusive. Entry list details as well as race chart positions, and the circuit map help to compliment the many fascinating period photographs. The colour replication of programme co..
Offering a concise and informative look at Classic Prototypes and Grand Touring cars during the period of the early 1960s to the mid 1970s, Anthony Pritchard has produced a book which starts with a look at the races and regulations of these events and offers the enthusiast additional information of ..
This book written by Enzo Ferrari is ‘his story’; having been asked to write the story many times, he always seemed to postpone the moment until now. He has taken the opportunity to reveal his thoughts, ideas, beliefs, feelings that have formed the fabric of the man himself. He recalls t..
Here for the first time is a book dedicated to the famous red cars of Alfa Romeo, in Grand Prix racing. Drawing on factory archives and the previously unpublished memories of men who built and raced the cars, David Venables chronicles the full story, from the company’s tentative start in 1910 throug..
The thirties was the era when nations raced: Germany, Italy, France and Britain each carrying their patriotism and nationalism to the rivalry of the race tracks. John Dugdale was in a perfect position to record the events of this momentous decade, joining The Autocar as a young reporter in the early..
La Favolosa Targa Florio offers a history of the event and the lifestyle around it. It captures the atmosphere of the people and the cars. From the first meeting held in 1906 this event was destined to become known all over the world. Captured within these pages are images of the magnificent cars wh..
Mike Hawthorn was born in 1929 in a small south Yorkshire town, the son of an engineer whose passion happened to be motorcycles and motor sport. The family moved soon afterwards to Farnham in Surrey, so that Leslie Hawthorn could be near the Brooklands race circuit. It was not long before his son Jo..
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