Motor Sports category: 694 books
by Brock Beard
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
**NOW UPDATED THROUGH 2018!**
In this second book of the series, LASTCAR.info’s Brock Beard retells the history of both the NASCAR XFINITY Series and the NASCAR Truck Series from the perspective of the series’ last-place finishers. Each article includes career snapshots of each and every...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Fred Lorenzen was an outsider in the world of stock car racing. A midwesterner, he came from Elmhurst, Illinois, near Chicago. Most all of the stock car racers were southern born, where the tradition was that boys began to drive when they were 10 or 11 years old. Fred became so successful in NASCAR...
by Olav Mol
Language: Dutch
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: Dutch
Release Date: December 15, 2016
2016 is voor Nederland een Formule 1-jaar om nooit te vergeten. Olav Mol deed voor televisie verslag van alle 21 races en maakte het samen met pitreporter Jack Plooij weer van dichtbij mee.
2016 betekende de doorbraak en eerste Formule 1-zege van Max Verstappen. De Belgische Grand Prix op Spa-Francorchamps...
Grand Prix Retro
verhalen uit de F1
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Het zal voor iedereen duidelijk zijn: de Formule 1 heeft in Nederland een enorme boost gekregen. Voor iedereen die de sport nu of al langer een warm hart toedraagt is er Grand Prix Retro.
Formule 1-verslaggever Olav Mol en de redactie van Grand Prix Radio nemen je mee door de geschiedenis van de Formule...
Verhalen uit de pits
Van Schumacher tot Verstappen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 4, 2019
In 1991 is Jack Plooij als manager van een toerwagenteam op het Italiaanse Monza-circuit. Formule 1-commentator Olav Mol treft hem in de pits en geeft hem er een nieuwe baan bij: pitreporter. In de jaren die volgen interviewt Jack de coureurs en jaagt hij op nieuwtjes in de voor tv-kijkers vaak ondoorgrondelijke...
Fiberglass and Other Composite MaterialsHP1498
A Guide to High Performance Non-Metallic Materials for AutomotiveRacing and Mari ne Use. Includes Fiberglass, Kevlar, Carbon Fiber,Molds, Structures and Materia
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
A guide to fiber reinforced plastic materials, including fiberglass, Kevlar, and carbon fiber. It also includes sections on mold making, plugs, materials, structures, gel coats, advanced building techniques, tools and equipment.
by Scott Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Success in the world of Formula 2 stock car racing takes a rare combination of aggression, skill and luck. Only the best drivers get to race under the gold roof of the World Champion.
In KEEP TURNING LEFT, twelve top F2 drivers give an open and honest account of racing bumper to bumper in...
Speed
How to Make Things Go Really Fast
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Guy Martin, lorry mechanic, motorcycle racing legend and favourite of the Isle of Man TT, lives for the buzz he feels racing his bike round terrifying bends at 200mph. Nothing, he claims, can match it. Or can it? Guy is about to find out …
Guy faces four dangerous and thrilling speed record...
by Graham Robson
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
This is a comprehensive study of the career of the Toyota Celica GT-Four. Starting in 1988, three generations of this effective turbocharged four-wheel-drive car known by enthusiasts as ST165, ST185 and ST205 types fought for World Championships, and were amazingly successful for almost a decade.All...
Shakedown Blues
A Collection of Motorcycle Tales
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Hang around bikers long enough and theyll all tell you things dont always go as planned. That is proved over and over again in this collection of tales told by journalist and motorcyclist C.G. Masi.
Join Masi and his band of merry bikers as they try their best to have good, clean fun while...
by Paul Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
A complete History of Aston Martin at Le Mans (1928-2005)
100 Years of the Isle of Man TT
A Century of Motorcycle Racing - Updated Edition covering 2007 - 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Run over the everyday roads of the Isle of Man for over 100 years, the world-famous Tourist Trophy races have gripped the imaginations of successive generations of motorcyclists. From the earliest days of single-speed, belt-driven machines delivering 5 bhp, to the highly developed projectiles of today...
Tales from the toolbox
A collection of behind-the-scenes tales from Grand Prix mechanics
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Tales from the Toolbox is a unique collection of behind-the-scenes stories and anecdotes as told, in their own words, by former Grand Prix mechanics who have worked at the top level of the sport during the past 50 years.On the front line of the sport, mixing with drivers and team bosses, they saw a side...
by Tim Hadleigh
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
An experts vision of what Formula One could be in the future.
"With spiralling costs and an ever increasing involment of the major car manufacturers, l can see Formula One becoming an ecological demonstration run which can only end in the collapse of the formula.".
From the...