Automovilismo: libros, coches, técnica y circuitos

Mille Miglia 1927-1957 : Immagini di una Vita / A Race in Pictures

For 30 years from 1927 until 1957 the real Mille Miglia was the "race of excellence." A unique event of over 1,600 kilometres across Italy, the stars of which were some of the world's greatest car manufacturers, among them Alfa Romeo, Mercedes-Benz, Maserati, Ferrari, Jaguar and Aston Martin.

And their cars were driven, naturally, by some of the equally great champions of the time, like Tazio Nuvolari, Achille Varzi, through to Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss as well as Alberto Ascari, Clemente Biondetti, Piero Taruffi and many others.
Count Giannino Marzotto won the race twice in Ferraris in 1950 and 1953 and said the Mille Miglia was "a synthesis of dynamism, freedom, challenge, courage and calculation."

The story, or better the stories, of that legendary race live again in this book, which tells the tales of the classic "Bresciana," first of all through hundreds of pictures, most of them never previously published.
The text has been written by Leonardo Acerbi, who also wrote "Mille Miglia Story 1927-1957."

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Courses automobiles 1900-1914

Desde 1895, las carreras de automóviles de ciudad a ciudad permiten a los primeros constructores medirse entre sí, pero hay que esperar hasta 1900 y la llegada de Gordon Bennett para ver pruebas oficiales reglamentadas. Durante los primeros quince años del siglo XX, este deporte ganará su prestigio y una gran popularidad.
Los espectadores de la Belle Époque ven desfilar por las carreteras de Francia máquinas cada vez más eficientes y rápidas que se enfrentan en luchas encarnizadas en todo tipo de terrenos.

¿Qué mejor que las postales antiguas coleccionadas con pasión por Jean-Pierre Rigouard para hacernos revivir las grandes "Clásicas"? ¿Quién recuerda a Théry, Nazzaro, Lautenschlager, Boillot, Bablot o Jenatzy, los "ases" del volante en los circuitos del monte Ventoux o de La Sarthe? ¡No se privan de su placer y admiren estos bólidos de otra época al doblar una curva cerrada!

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Endurance WEC - From Group C To Hybrid Prototypes

A unique work revealing to readers for the first time the aerodynamic evolution of the sports prototypes of the latest "Golden Age of Endurance Racing", those with hybrid powerplants. A painstaking exploration of the world of the enthralling sports prototypes, the cars developed from the Group C period - in the first half of the Eighties - through to the protagonists of the current WEC and ELMS championships.

Hundreds of colour drawings document the technical evolution of the covered wheel racing cars of the past 40 years. Cars of extraordinary appeal such as the Porsche 956s, the XJ series Jaguars, the Series C Mercedes, the Peugeot 905, through to the more recent Audis, great dominators of Le Mans in the 2000s, the Toyotas and the Porsches.
All this in a technical overview introduced by historical-regulatory contextualisation, indispensible for an understanding of a world that, in recent years, has featured even greater technical evolution and sporting excitement than Formula 1.

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The First Mille 26-27 March 1927

Ninety years ago the first Mille Miglia was held on 26-27 March 1927, so here is a new book that enables the reader to pin down a story which is not exactly secret, but has remained unknown until now.
After exhaustive research of the Mille Miglia Archives, previously unpublished yet invaluable documentation came to light with the historic information they provide.

This book tells of the first Mille Miglia's regulations, the analytical description of 1,618 kilometres of the route - a rare description of the Italian roads in 1927 - specifications of the 101 cars entered for the event with photographs of the drivers, the results list and times at which each entrant reached the various controls at Parma, Bologna, Florence, Poggibonsi, San Quirico d'Orcia, Viterbo, Rome, Terni, Spoleto, Ancona, Rimini, Bologna and Treviso.

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The Monza 1000km : 1965-2008

Entre 1965 y los años noventa, los 1000 Km de Monza-Trofeo Filippo Caracciolo fueron una de las carreras de resistencia más clásicas, una especie de 24 horas de Le Mans, y durante muchas temporadas fue, con razón, una etapa del campeonato mundial de autos deportivos y prototipos.
Los mejores pilotos y autos se enfrentaban en esa histórica pista italiana y en la bancadas, los fabricantes de autos, incluidos Porsche, Ferrari y Ford, dando vida a muchas páginas inolvidables en la historia del automovilismo.

Aldo Zana, destacado historiador del automovilismo, narra esta fabulosa historia, año tras año, incluyendo las competencias celebradas entre 1995 y 2008.
Cada edición se enriquece con las parrillas de salida y las posiciones finales. Un trabajo enorme, nunca antes intentado, ilustrado con imágenes destacadas, muchas de ellas nunca publicadas previamente.

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Classic Grand Prix Cars - The Glorious Prehistory of Formula 1: 1906-1960

"Classic Grand Prix Cars" explores the origins and evolution of Grand Prix racing during the first half of the twentieth century. With a newly expanded introduction for this edition, Karl Ludvigsen's authoritative history describes the technical development of these powerful machines, decade by decade.
A former auto industry executive and award-winning author of dozens of books, including Classic Racing Engines, Ludvigsen is an expert guide to the cars, manufacturers and drivers who pioneered the sport that would become Formula 1.

Front engines dominated the top tier of motor racing from the first Grand Prix held in France in 1906 through most of the 1950s. Ludvigsen describes the conception and construction of these ground-breaking vehicles, spotlighting the many remarkable advances in chassis and engine technology that were made during Grand Prix racing's first few decades.
The final chapters of the book introduce the game-changing move to rear engines in Grand Prix cars after the Second World War.

Ludvigsen's thoroughly researched text is augmented with hundreds of archival photos, illustrations and blueprints along with color photos of many of these historic cars in action.
Lending further authority to his history are dozens of first-hand-accounts of early Grand Prix competitions as they appeared in the leading automotive journals of the day.
Karl Ludvigsen's celebration of the innovative early years of the Grand Prix car makes for fascinating reading as well as providing a lasting reference for all F1 fans with a sense of history.

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Formula III Racing in North America

This detailed illustrated history describes the emergence in North America of the 500cc displacement road racing cars known as FIIIs. The story begins with the first competition appearance of a FIII car in the U.S, and continues on right up to the current vintage racing scene.

Includes descriptions of the cars, courses, organizations and people involved. The vast differences in FIII racing on the east coast is contrasted with the west coast.
Appendices cover the FIII related organizations, information on the surviving cars and more. A highly informative read on a little known segment of road racing in North America.

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