reccommend a motorsport book

[DBSV8]

Just finished



great read , especially about John Surtees while at Ferrari

any other books for agood read ?

[DangerousMike]

biography/history of williams F1. its called Williams.

[Trackrod]

Ken Tyrrell by Maurice Hamilton, Winning is Not Enough by Jackie Stewart, and A Different Kind of Life, by Virginia Williams, and My Story by Alex Zanardi are all super reads and easy to get into.

[jpf]

Time and Two Seats by Janos Wimpffen is incredible--and heavy!

The Unfair Advantage by Mark Donohue...

[ADEuk]

Life at the Limit: Triumph and Tragedy in Formula One by Professor Sid Watkins

[Eric Mc]

A similar thread was running not that long ago.

Here -

http://www.pistonheads.com/GASSING/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Mazda Baiter]

Last of the Gentlemen Racers. A Biography of Piers Courage, by Adam Cooper.

Forza Amon, by Eoin Young.

Lotus 49, by Micheal Cooper (I think)

The last road race, by Richard (can't remember his surname, but he also wrote a very good...)

Enzo Ferrari biography.

Tom Rubython's Ayrton Senna book has all the information you would ever need. He is the opposite of Dan Brown though, he can take a good story and write it poorly.

The Zanardi book is brilliant.

I have a 1964 copy of

"Fangio" by Fangio. It is his own account of his career.

Jim Clark, by Eric Dymock

Jim Clark and his most successful Lotus, by Eoin Young (I think)

There will be more that I will add when I get home.

[Eric Mc]

Am currently reading (again) "Colin Chapman - Wayward Genius" by Mike Lawerence.

[Mazda Baiter]

Eric Mc said:

Am currently reading (again) "Colin Chapman - Wayward Genius" by Mike Lawerence.

Also, "Cosworth, the search for power" by Graham Robson. (I have a signed book by Keith Duckworth, Mike Costin and Ben Rood.)

[Paul Dishman]

A couple of my favourites:
"The Lost Generation" by David Tremayne
"Touch Wood!" by Duncan Hamilton

[Paul Dishman]

jpf said:

Time and Two Seats by Janos Wimpffen is incredible--and heavy!

Incredibly rare----- and expensive!

[WilliBetz]

Mazda Baiter said:

The last road race, by Richard (can't remember his surname, but he also wrote a very good...)

Richard Williams, who also wrote "Racers"

I'd add...

Mon Ami Mate, by Chris Nixon

Rosemeyer, translated by Chris Nixon

[Rouleur]

Just to be a little different I can't recommend this photography book too highly -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Formula-1-Portraits-Hartmu...

It's a big book full of stunning shots from the 60s and has some great little bios of the leading drivers too. I've had it for years but keep leafing through it.

Edited by Rouleur on Wednesday 31st March 20:38

[Kickstart]

Archie and the Listers
Bugatti Queen
Touch wood
The road to Muckleflugga

[Mazda Baiter]

Paul Dishman said:

"The Lost Generation" by David Tremayne

I really must put this book on my christmas list.

Also "Crashed and Byrned" by Tommy Byrne and Mark Hughes.

[Curry Burns]

ADEuk said:

Life at the Limit: Triumph and Tragedy in Formula One by Professor Sid Watkins

+ several billion!!!

This is a very well written book, filled with great humour, but also great sadness.

Absolutely fantastic.

[GarrettMacD]

Mazda Baiter said:

Also "Crashed and Byrned" by Tommy Byrne and Mark Hughes.

I've just finished reading that a few days ago. It's very funny, and also depressing that such a talented driver could be left out because he was a "Dundalk knacker". Whenever he was in a decent car he nearly always managed to comprehensively beat anyone he was up against.

Loved the bit about him setting pole in an F2 car at the Nordschleife on only his third lap ever at the circuit!

[StevieBee]

GarrettMacD said:

Mazda Baiter said:

Also "Crashed and Byrned" by Tommy Byrne and Mark Hughes.

Loved the bit about him setting pole in an F2 car at the Nordschleife on only his third lap ever at the circuit!

...and how he waster faster than Senna (by quite some margin) in Senna's McLaren, even after the team had deliberately reduced the throttle travel and de tuned the set up!


Another recommended read is Flat Out - Flat Broke - Perry McCarthy.

[moffspeed]

"Archie and the Listers"
"The Lost Generation"
"Piers Courage"
"Mon Ami Mate"
"The Ford that beat Ferrari"
"Jenks - a passion for motorsport"
"Time & two seats"

..and probably not "Niki Lauda & the Grand Prix Gladiators".

[furtive]

The Mechanics Tale - Steve Matchett
Flat out Flat broke - Perry McCarthy
Working the Wheel - Martin Brundle