Description

Here are some of the most brilliant and exciting accounts of the world’s greatest motor races. They are intended for the younger or less experienced enthusiast of the sport, but they will also recall for the more sophisticated reader some of the great drivers and machines, and some of the most thrilling duels in more than half a century of motor racing.

The contributors from motor sport include: W. O. Bentley as a supreme designer of sports cars, S. C. H.Davis as a team manager and driver, Tim Birkin and Rudi Caracciola as superlative drivers, Barré Lyndon as a reporter, Louis Klemantaski as a photographer.

And the races they describe, often as contestants or spectators, range from the earliest Tourist Trophy events when a speed of a mile a minute seemed to defy all the laws of chance, to Grand Prix events for huge 600 horse-power machines capable of 200 m.p.h. The tense expectation before the fall of the starting flag, the sense of crisis and sharp aroma of oil during a vital pit stop, the needle-sharp drama of wheel-to-wheel combat—all the ingredients of one of the most fascinating and certainly the fastest sport in the world are to be found in these pages.

The races are linked by an explanatory commentary, and the book is illustrated by maps and photographs.

Hardback in generally good condition, with good green boards, some minor foxing to page edges and one or two intro pages. Dust cover also very clean and brightand largely un-marked. Good example.