Maserati 450S book review: Modena’s heavy hitter
“When she didn’t break, she won.” That’s the frustrating summary of the career of Maserati’s big, booming 450S, the Modena firm’s contender in the 1957 World Sportscar Championship. Scarily fast,…
You can tell from the pale orange endpapers that this is going to be presented with some style, and it is. Palawan style, with groovy covers and a smart box…
Now meet the team From tyre engineers to pit mechanics, this new book offers a glimpse of Formula 1’s rarely noticed behind-the-scenes grafters It is a truism that…
In the wake of Ferrari, here’s another racing movie. They’re like buses. But while one can imagine the pitch for a story revolving around the ‘terrible joys’ of Enzo Ferrari,…
Last year’s victory for Ferrari at Le Mans broke a long drought for the marque, at least as regards making P1. But many a Ferrari has been seen not only…
Radio 4 listeners may have heard some of The Race to the Future – it was Book of the Week – but those 15-minute tranches gave little hint of how…
Planning a book covering this significant century can’t have been easy, but this quadruple-authored book takes a bold approach, dividing into multiple short sections livened by bold graphics and diagrams.…
Type R is Honda’s performance label and in these two large volumes Lionel Lucas takes us through the whole story of a Japanese firm’s search for speed from efficient road…
Drivers, designers and authors held forth at the first Motoring Literary & Art Festival at Silverstone last weekend, with fans getting to hear some of racing's greatest stories
The 2009 Formula 1 season might have felt like a blockbuster unfolding before your eyes and it has now been given the cinematic treatment it deserves in a new Disney…
You could hardly have a more confusing history than this chassis, with its roots in a Jaguar sports-racer which then carried the Stuttgart crest to victory in three races, two…
An amazing new photo book examines the wild, early days of American superbike racing, which eventually led to the MotoGP championship
When in 1985 an Italian sweater firm bought a complete Formula 1 team, new ground was broken, a hint of the eagerness to disrupt the status quo that would characterise…
This autumn's inaugural Motoring Literary and Art festival will bring together illustrious names from across motor racing at Silverstone. Here are five of the talks that you won't want to miss
Lord Hesketh will be at this December's Motoring Literary and Art Festival to discuss the rise of his inimitable F1 team and its star driver James Hunt
My name is Shelby, and performance is my business.” That’s what the lanky Texan says into camera on a promotional film, and it’s the line with which Preston Lerner wraps…
This one caused much discussion at the RAC motoring book awards judging. It’s built around a previously issued biography, re-presented in a much more glamorous package of two volumes in…