It was coming up to the end of 1939. Enzo Ferrari had just left Alfa Romeo, who had constrained him under contract not to undertake racing activities for at least four years. But it didn't quite go like that. Ferrari immediately began to prepare for a new venture: under the name of Auto Avio Cos..
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 ..
From the birth of the four cylinder Ferrari engine in 1951, this book records its development and model changes over the years, with coverage of the various cars in which they were used, or in the case of some of the latter engines, the test beds in which they ran. A fine selection of period images,..
Ferrari has experienced many moments of glory, but the advent of "P" series Sports cars was certainly among the brightest, for a variety of reasons. First of all, the switch to rear-mounted engines; then, the technical validity of those cars, the first to incorporate aerodynamic engineering and the ..
The name is magic. Ferrari. The man. The cars. The legend. The reality. Sort out the flurry of words that have been tossed about over the past quarter century to describe the phenomenon that is Ferrari and one stands out as perhaps saying it best. Ferrari is an original. Utterly, lavishly, passionat..
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..
This book is the accumulation of more than two decades devoted to interviews and research, which offers a thorough analysis of one of the world’s most important motoring events. It is written by one of the most renowned Italian historians of the automobile Luigi Orsini, already the author of works o..
“This is the first time that the fruit of twenty five years of my work has been described faithfully and substantially”: Enzo Ferrari. Within the pages of this book, Gianni Rogliatti has recounted the early days of Ferrari and his time with Alfa Romeo, followed by an interesting chapter on Maranello..
Tony Southgate, From Drawing Board to Chequered Flag is the autobiography of one of the world's most famous, accomplished and versatile racing car designers, whose professional career has embraced Formula One, sports-racing and endurance racing cars and has even included an international rally c..
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