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Author Signed Copies Available:

ENZO FERRARI:

POWER, POLITICS, AND THE MAKING OF AN AUTOMOTIVE EMPIRE

by Luca Dal Monte       Foreword by Luca di Montezemolo

AUTHOR SIGNED COPIES – $49.95 – ORDER HERE

Until now, no biography has truly captured the entire scope of Enzo Ferrari’s remarkable life and its impact on automobiles, motor racing, and Italian industry and culture. Drawing on more than a decade of original research, author Luca Dal Monte uncovers a wealth of new facts about Ferrari’s origins, ambitions, business practices and private life.

The book revisits all the highlights of Ferrari’s rise to greatness: his driving career in the 1920s; his management of racing teams for Alfa Romeo in the 1930s; the launch of his own company and team in the late 1940s; and his unprecedented successes building cars for the road and race track in the following decades. But it also examines lesser-known and sometimes hidden aspects of Ferrari’s career, from his earliest failed business ventures to his political dealings with Italy’s Fascist government, Allied occupiers, and even Communist leaders. It also lays bare the internal politics of the Ferrari company and team, both led by a man who manipulated employees, drivers, competitors, and the media with a volatile mixture of brute force, paranoia, and guile. And it sheds new light on Ferrari’s personal relationships with women – most notably his wife Laura and longtime mistress Lina Lardi – as well as the tragic death of one son and the long-unacknowledged birthright of another.

The Ferrari that emerges from these pages is an extremely complex man – one who could be ruthless and unashamedly vulgar, but also unexpectedly vulnerable. But no matter what challenges he faced in business, at home, or on the race track, Ferrari never lost his essential optimism and unwavering faith in himself.

This is the definitive biography of Enzo Ferrari, one that makes previous accounts obsolete. As a native Italian and longtime Ferrari employee, Luca Dal Monte gained access to public and private archives and conducted scores of interviews with members of Ferrari’s inner circle, as well as reviewing the personal papers of Enzo Ferrari and many other insiders.

Hardbound | 954 pages | 100 b&w, 33 color photos

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Now Available: New John Barnard Biography

THE PERFECT CAR: The Biography of JOHN BARNARD

Motorsport’s Most Creative Designer

by Nick Skeens

John Barnard revolutionized Formula 1, and motorsport as a whole, through his unrelenting quest for perfection in racing car design. Written with Barnard’s cooperation and with input from dozens of associates, drivers and rivals, this biography tells the entire story, both personal and professional, of a British design genius. Barnard’s technical achievements are explored in detail–and in accessible language–with special emphasis on his brilliant initiatives while at McLaren (the first carbon-fiber composite chassis) and Ferrari (the first semi-automatic gearbox).

The Perfect Car is also a human-interest story, telling a tale of innovation under intense pressure while Barnard endeavored to maintain a stable family life. This is a landmark book that will be relished by anyone interested in motorsport and design.

Hardbound | 656 pages

$60.00 – Order HERE

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Just Announced: 1/18 Race Transporters & 2018 Indycars

1/18 scale Cobra and Ferrari Race Transporters have been announced by NOREV.

The Alan Mann ‘Cobra: Powered by Ford’ is expected to arrive in December.

$424.95 – Reserve HERE

 

The Ferrari Race Transporter seen above is due in early 2019

$424.95 – Reserve HERE

 

Meanwhile, Greenlight has announced 1/18 scale replicas of the two big winners from the 2018 Verizon Indycar Series at a very reasonable price.

Scott Dixon #9 – Chip Ganassi Racing / PNC Bank – 2018 Indycar Champion

January Release – $64.95 – Reserve HERE

Will Power #12 – Team Penske / Verizon – 2018 Indianapolis 500 Winner

Available late November – $64.95 – Reserve HERE

Have a great weekend!

  • Paul
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‘Twice Around the Clock – Yanks at Le Mans’

 

 

 

 

 

 

by Tim Considine          Foreword by Dan Gurney

Theme:
A multi-volume, unapologetically chauvinistic personal history of the more than 320 American drivers and the American cars that have participated in what National Geographic in their 10 Best of Everything book has called “the world’s greatest sporting event,” the oldest, longest, most challenging and most famous road race of all, the epic 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Overview:
Beautifully illustrated and spanning from the first “Grand Prix d’Endurance de 24 Heures,” in 1923, to present day, Twice Around the Clock: The Yanks at Le Mans is told primarily from the point of view of America’s motorsports heroes, as much as possible in their own voices, from interviews conducted over 25 years. These personal stories are framed by a narrative to set the stage, year by year. Obviously, it would be impossible to tell every participant’s story in detail, but each and all are included and the depth of attention given, determined as much by entertainment value as historical importance.There are many books about Le Mans, good books, but they rightly concentrate on the races and results.Twice Around the Clock: The Yanks at Le Mans complements these accounts and adds to the body of history with untold personal stories of American drivers, team owners, mechanics and witnesses – like the American soldiers stationed in Europe who often ended up helping the teams. These volumes are about their experiences at Le Mans, on and off the track. And, oh, the stories!Frank, sometimes blunt, personal accounts make history human – and these volumes unique. Each is close to 120,000 words in length with approximately 300 black and white and color images from around the world, interspersed throughout – many never seen before.While the narrative stresses the personal, there are many new details for aficionados, and for historians and academics, comprehensive appendices with complete statistical records for every American driver, car and engine ever to compete at the Sarthe, as well as citations for every quote and photo credits.

The Work: 
• Research and interviews conducted for 26 years, written over the last six years.
• Photographs, many never before seen, from the great photographers over the ages, and personal pictures from the participants.  Even those published before have never been seen as presented in Yanks, often with captions by the participants.
• Personal stories from hundreds of American drivers, owners, crewmembers, from the first American to drive at Le Mans in 1929, to the most recent competitors – some famous, some not – all heroes for competing in the world’s most important endurance race. It’s the personal stories that are the heart of Yanks and make it unique. They add humanity – and a fair bit of profanity – to history.
Some quite surprising – the night before the 1966 race, the driver of America’s first overall winning car stood guard as a confederate broke into the Ford garage to make unauthorized adjustments.
Some downright controversial – an American team member claims he relieved a famous Yank driver for several pre-dawn laps on the race winner that year, grounds for disqualification if discovered.
Some poignant – one of America’s best pulled into the pits in tears after believing he’d just hit the dead body of his friend who’d crashed and been thrown back onto the track. And many just plain funny – a U.S. champion, unbeknown to anyone, blind in one eye, tells of his panic when the female medical examiner at Le Mans clapped a paddle over his good eye before he could read the chart. What to do? American ingenuity – he reached out and grasped the back of her leg. “Monsieur!” The paddle dropped just long enough for a glimpse.
• Complete results tables after each chapter, with American drivers, cars, engines and teams in bold to stand apart.
• Appendices

$350.00 – Reserve your copy HERE

 

EARLY 2019 RELEASE

FIRST RELEASE IN A PLANNED 7 VOLUME HISTORY

‘THE YANKS AT Le MANS 1923 – 2017

The next two-volume set, the ’80s and ’90s, is set for a late 2019 release.

The final two-volume set will take the story to 2017, the 50th anniversary of the Gurney/Foyt/Ford win. A 2020 release is planned.