An introduction to race cars and some types of racing.

Guide to Racing Cars (Piccolo Explorer Books)

Engineering & Transportation

Roebuck, Nigel

Automotive

Pan/Macmillan

Twenty-five of the greatest name in Formula 1 motor racing are featured in this widely acclaimed book - now available in paperback - which combines personal reminiscence from the pits and the race track with observation and insight. Drama, humour, irony, tragedy and occasionally scathing comment make this a book all motor sport devotees will want to read. Much of the text has been rewritten and updated including the profiles of Nelson Piquet, Didier Pironi, Keke Rosberg and Ayrton Senna.

Grand Prix Greats: A Personal Appreciation of 25 Famous Formula 1 Drivers

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Patrick Stephens

Guide to racing cars (Explorer guides)

R. Rourke Pub. Co

The outstanding images in this book chronicle the career of one of the most admired Grand Prix drivers in living memory - and surely the most loved in all of F1 history. Gilles Villeneuve's career statistics cannot even begin to explain the mystique. It was created over only four full seasons with Ferrari in F1, three of these with uncompetitive cars. He achieved only six victories from 67 starts, two pole positions, eight fastest laps and 107 championship points. He was one of the finest racing drivers never to become World Champion. He possessed miraculous car control and frightening courage that could often overcome the flaws in his equipment. He thrilled spectators because he made them fear for his safety. He raced to win and, if that meant taking risks, so be it. He crashed often, and occasionally he broke his cars in his frustration, but he could wring from them performances far beyond their capabilities. Sometimes his starts almost defined belief, and always he was magnificent on a wet track. He never, ever, gave up. He treated his racing cars with uncompromising brutality. Yet he was soft-natured, and emotional and devoted family man, loyal to his friends, charming to strangers. He was unwavering in his commitment to sportsmanship, to his inborn sense of right and wrong. One dreadful day, incensed by an injustice, he took a risk too many. The memories he left us will stay with us always. There has never been a racing driver like Gilles Villeneuve. It is impossible to believe there ever will be.

Gilles Villeneuve

Hazleton

Book by Roebuck, Nigel, Townsend, John, Naismith, Barry

Grand Prix/World Formula One Championship 1987-88

Townsend, John

Naismith, Barry

Motorbooks Intl

Gilles Villeneuve: A Photographic Portrait

Biographies & Memoirs

Haynes Pubns

Twenty-five of the greatest name in Formula 1 motor racing are featured in this widely acclaimed book - now available in paperback - which combines personal reminiscence from the pits and the race track with observation and insight. Drama, humour, irony, tragedy and occasionally scathing comment make this a book all motor sport devotees will want to read. Much of the text has been rewritten and updated including the profiles of Nelson Piquet, Didier Pironi, Keke Rosberg and Ayrton Senna.

Thorsons Pub.

In 1999, the Formula 1 World Championship is 50 years old. Here Nigel Roebuck, rated by many fans as the finest F1 writer in the world, presents his personal selection of highlights from the past half century, filled with his own memories and colorful anecdotes. Roebuck looks at key events including the first World Championship GP at Silverstone in 1950; the arrival of Lotus in F1 in 1960; Ferraris year of trauma in 1982; Damon Hills heavy weather championship in 1996; Ayrton Sennas tragic death at Imola in 1994; Mika Hakkinen vs Michael Schumacher in 1998; and much more. Also contains pen portraits of racing legends Moss, Stewart, Senna, Prost, Ecclestone, Williams and Watkins. Well done!

Chasing the Title: Fifty Years of Formula 1

The book in itself is a milestone in motorsport books history. It required 14 years of work from his author, who not only wrote all the texts, but also did more than 400 drawings representing all the cars from all the significant teams having entered the Formula One championship in the past 54 years! This unique feature allows the readers to see at a glance the evolution of all the Williams cars, for instance, since the creation of the team.  This huge and heavy (more than 10 pounds) box, with two volumes in fabric-style covers also features more than 1200 photographs, some of them exclusive from the collection of Bernard Cahier, the famous photographer from the '50s.  In its last section, the book also gives comprehensive results of all the Grands Prix of the history of F1, from 1950 until today. It features all the lap charts of all the races - despite the fact that the FIA (the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile) itself thought that these lap charts did not exist before 1958!  This third edition is entirely updated after the end of the 2006 season. Its page layout has also been improved since the first two editions to put more emphasis on the pictures. In France, the book will be published in its fifth edition this year. It won the prestigious award "Grand Prix du Livre" from the Automobile Festival of Chamonix.  

Great Encyclopedia of Formula 1

Ménard, Pierre

Galeron, Jean Francois

Cahier, Bernard

CHRONOSPORTS

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