Motor Racing: A Century of Competition and Human Challenges [Hardcover]

Gluseppe Guzzardi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 4, 2001

The authors take you on an in-depth journey of racing from the turn of the century city-to-city races to the modern Indy Car, Formula One, Rally and NASCAR championships, right on through to the history of road racing. Motor Racing is a perfect balance of statistics, rolls of honor, spectacular images and a fascinating overview of closed circuit and open-road motor sport.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Book Sales, Inc.; 1ST edition (November 4, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785812989
• ISBN-13: 978-0785812982
• Product Dimensions: 14.3 x 10.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,048,369 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Something for everybody, August 29, 2007

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Luciano U. Werner "LUWerner" (Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Motor Racing: A Century of Competition and Human Challenges (Hardcover)

Though the hugest section is on F1, the book covers almost every kind of car racing: from Le mans to rally, from NASCAR to Targa Florio. Obviously it's not a definitive book on any of the many themes, but as an overall "auto racing encylopedia" I think it delivers what it promises. If you already are knowledgeable on these subjects, then maybe this is not the book for you, but for the novice I think it does a fine job in presenting all these categories of racing. Pictures aren't fantastic, but are pretty good. One thing that did annoy me though was the way the authors displayed the captions for the pictures, that more often then not was confusing to find out what picture the caption related to.