{"id":6252,"date":"2014-07-07T18:15:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T17:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/issue_content\/martini-racing-story-1983-1987\/"},"modified":"2019-07-21T13:33:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T12:33:34","slug":"martini-racing-story-1983-1987","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/may-1988\/75\/martini-racing-story-1983-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Martini Racing Story 1983-1987"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>edited by Cyril Frey. 178pp\/ 13\u201d x 10\u201d. (Martini Racing, 80 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4TG. \u00a319.95 + \u00a32.80 p&#038;p)<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to first impressions, this glossy coffee-table tome is more than just a hardbound advertisement. It may exist primarily to glorify a well-known brand of drink, but it also makes a very good job of chronicling the adventures of a leading motor racing organisation in world rallying, sportscar and powerboat racing.<\/p>\n<p>The end product can only be described as stylish. Colour is used throughout, well printed on large-format high-quality paper to enable some quite stunning photography to leap out of the page; most of the pictures are deployed bravely, boldly, and above all big.<\/p>\n<p>Lancia\u2019s works rally squad monopolises the first two thirds of the book. It\u2019s year-by-year history from 1983 (a similar volume has already dealt with the earlier period) is sprinkled with articles on the leading drivers, co-drivers and cars, but excessive verbiage is avoided, with neither words nor pictures ever being cramped.<\/p>\n<p>Full results tables at the back make this in many ways a reference work as much as an album, and an attractive one at that. It is not, however, cheap\u2026<br \/>\nGT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":739,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[182],"issue_decade":[121589],"issue_year":[121659],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/6252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/6252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271614,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/6252\/revisions\/271614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}