www.motorfilms.com<\/font><\/a>, \u00a319.99<\/p>\nEntertaining as ever, but this latest volume is extra special for us. It features an interview with our own founder editor Bill Boddy on his early life and how he fell in love with cars. Watch out for some choice language! <\/p>\n
Other highlights include footage from Crystal Palace, Mallory and Brands Hatch of the 1961 BRSCC racing scene, complete with bizarre Spike Milligan-style sketches from film maker David Roscoe, and the mother of all US stock car shunts from Langhorne. Both films have to be seen to be believed. — DS<\/p>\n
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Autodrome: the lost race circuits of Europe<\/strong> by SS Collins and Gavin D Ireland, ISBN 1904788 319, published by Veloce, \u00a334.99<\/p>\nDamn! The staggeringly enthusiastic Sam Collins, a man who could well drink petrol for breakfast, has only gone and written a book that people have been encouraging Motor Sport <\/em>to produce for years. Strongly related to our series of track visits, this hardback picks out nine circuits, relates their history and brings you up to date on their current state. The author’s wistful melancholy is a different approach and I was intrigued about the fund of Brooklands ghost stories, but there are mistakes (passing mentions to ‘Spa-Franchorchamps’) and some of this book is inevitably going over old ground. For that reason I found the chapter on Keimola most interesting. Where this pricey book really scores, though, is on the superb photography: Gavin Ireland really is very promising indeed.– MS<\/p>\n***<\/p>\n
The Ford that beat Ferrari <\/strong>by John S Allen & Gordon J Jones, ISBN:184425113 6, Published by Haynes, \u00a375<\/p>\nFirst published in 1985, this work on Ford’s iconic GT40 is described as a “complete remake” on the dust jacket. The facelift includes new photographs and revised words where new information has been unearthed over the past 20 years.<\/p>\n
Its hefty size (480 pages) is matched by a hefty price. But don’t be put off. The collection of more than 800 photographs of one of the great racing cars is unmatched, while the depth of research within the accompanying long captions is obvious. Fascinating images are made more so by the authors’ detail. An example: how Carroll Shelby’s valuable alligator-leather belt was used to help lash the tail back down on to Mark Donohue’s MkIV after it had flown off on the Mulsanne. A welcome return for an accessible \u2014 yet definitive \u2014 classic book. — DS<\/p>\n
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The Paddy Hopkirk Story: a dash of the Irish <\/strong>by Bill Price with Paddy Hopkirk, ISBN1844251101, published by Haynes, \u00a318.99<\/p>\nAn engaging biography of an archetypal UK sporting ace, this book is written by a man who spent much of the 1960s as a mechanic to the Northern Irish folk hero. It covers Hopkirk’s sporting deeds in meticulous detail \u2014 and it’s often forgotten that he was a pretty handy circuit racer, from Formula Junior to Le Mans, as well as the most famous of all rally men (before Colin McRae, anyway). But Price’s insight of the off-road trials, tribulations and escapades (and there were more than a few) provide colour so often lacking in motorsport books: Sir Jackie Stewart, who wrote the foreword, will surely cringe at his geekiness at Jim Clark’s birthday party! Not altogether sure that feminist readers will appreciate Paddy’s cats being named Beaver and Muff though… — MS<\/p>\n
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McLaren Memories: a biography of Bruce McLaren <\/strong> by Eoin Young, ISBN:184425119 5, Published by Haynes, \u00a317.99<\/p>\nThe author has already written a biography of his old friend, so you might be forgiven for wondering why he has produced another.<\/p>\n
Young points out in the book’s introduction that this isn’t a straight biography (even if it says it is on the dust jacket), but a selection of memories from friends and excerpts from Bruce’s regular columns in Autosport<\/em>. But it still follows the predictable format of the racing driver biography: chronological, with plenty of race reportage.<\/p>\nAs you’d expect from a man so close to the subject, there are anecdotes aplenty which paint a rounded portrait of the Kiwi star. The combination of Young’s easy style and McLaren packing so much into his short life ensures a good read, but does it really add anything that we don’t already know? — DS<\/p>\n
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