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The Formula 1 Drive to Survive - Unofficial Companion (Paperback): Stuart Codling The Formula 1 Drive to Survive - Unofficial Companion (Paperback)
Stuart Codling
R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Whether you are a new or longtime Formula 1 fan, here is your ultimate, unofficial armchair companion to the popular Netflix series Formula 1: Drive to Survive, providing deeper insight into the players, tech, and history that drive the show’s plot points.

F1 expert Stuart Codling is your guide to all things F1. The Formula 1 Drive to Survive The Unofficial Companion is a feature-rich guide that takes you beyond the series’ personalities and off-track drama to present further context. Topics covered include:

  • People – Who does what to keep F1 teams rolling? From personal trainers to race engineers, mechanics, pit crew, and team principal, what does it take to succeed in F1? Sidebars and callouts include significant past players and great rivalries including that between Toto Wolff and Christian Horner.
  • F1 History in 20 Cars – From Fangio’s postwar Alfa Romeo to Max Verstappen’s Honda-powered Red Bull and Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes, all the great teams feature: Ferrari, Williams, McLaren, Lotus, and more. Callouts features driver gear and great past drivers like Andretti, Brabham, Moss, Schumacher, and more.
  • Technology – Who designs and builds today’s mind-bending cars and engines and what does the process entail? Side journeys explore safety features, technology behind key components, and big ideas that flopped.
  • F1 Circuits – A look at F1 race course in today, along with features on circuit design, past circuits, and notorious circuit features like Loew’s Hairpin at Monaco and Eau Rouge at Spa Francorchamps.
  • Race Strategy – The rules and strategies of race day. Sidebars explore things like tire strategy, the anatomy of a pit stop, and the role of analytics.
  • Business – Who pays for the multibillion-dollar spectacle on display in Drive to Survive and how is it possibly profitable? Features and callouts explore the evolution of sponsorship, driver salaries, and backroom deals.

Where relevant, Codling relates content to specific seasons and episodes, providing even more context for the reality series. The visuals include scores of action and off-track photos. The result is a visually stunning guide to accompany a wildly popular TV series, and an engaging history spanning seventy-plus years of the world’s most popular motorsport. 
Shifting Shale 2006 - A Race Odyssey (Paperback): Jeff Scott Shifting Shale 2006 - A Race Odyssey (Paperback)
Jeff Scott
R648 Discovery Miles 6 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Al Unser Jr - A Checkered Past (Hardcover): Al Unser, Jade Gurss Al Unser Jr - A Checkered Past (Hardcover)
Al Unser, Jade Gurss
R794 R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Save R79 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Vroom 20th - F1 & MotoGP Press Ski Meeting - Madonna Di Campiglio (English, Italian, Paperback): Ercole Colombo Vroom 20th - F1 & MotoGP Press Ski Meeting - Madonna Di Campiglio (English, Italian, Paperback)
Ercole Colombo
R555 Discovery Miles 5 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This extraordinary event, which started as a sort of joke and almost by accident, today gathers journalists from all over the world, managers but especially the Scuderia Ferrari and Ducati MotoGP the drivers and riders with their respective wives and companions. To tell the story of these rather special 'white weeks', during which just about everything happens, is the expert eye of Ercole Colombo, one of the most celebrated Formula 1 photographers, as well as some of the most prestigious motor sport journalists. Vrooom is the chance to get to know the stars of Formula 1 and MotoGP from close-up but far away from the circuits, almost as private people.

Burt Munro - The Lost Interviews (Paperback): Neill Birss Burt Munro - The Lost Interviews (Paperback)
Neill Birss
R653 R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Save R68 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Invercargill, at the far southern end of New Zealand. It's the late 1960s and two blokes sit in a modest shed drinking tea. The old bloke is telling stories about his life; the young bloke, a junior reporter, is typing earnestly on his Olympia portable typewriter. Dramatic tales abound - of youthful scrapes, motorcycle races and ingenious repairs, of international travel and friendships and road trips, of high speeds and accidents and meetings with dutiful policemen. Burt Munro became known around the world through the 2005 movie The World's Fastest Indian, but had long been known to motorcycle fans as a colourful character and speed record-holder. Our young journalist, Neill Birss, moved away from Invercargill and the interviews he had typed out were never published. In fact, they were lost during the move and only resurfaced under strange circumstances many decades later. Here they are in this book - the lost interviews with Burt Munro, legendary Kiwi motorcycle rider - his voice as fresh and his stories as vivid as the day he told them to the young reporter. Also available as an eBook.

Formula 1: Car by Car 1990-99 (Hardcover): Peter Higham Formula 1: Car by Car 1990-99 (Hardcover)
Peter Higham
R1,568 R1,278 Discovery Miles 12 780 Save R290 (18%) In Stock

This instalment in Evro’s decade-by-decade series covering all Formula 1 cars and teams is devoted to a period when some normality seemed to return after the ground-effect and turbo excesses of the 1980s, except for one terrible weekend in the spring of 1994. The tragic deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna led to immense change with new emphasis on safety, including measures to slow down the cars and improve their structural strength, and numerous changes to circuits. In many ways Formula 1 became more as we recognise it today, especially as the decade’s dominant teams, McLaren and Williams, remain familiar. Besides the winning cars, there is always much fascination for fans in unsuccessful and obscure efforts, such as Andrea Moda and Venturi, and this authoritative and comprehensively illustrated book covers them all.

The Monza 1000km - 1965-2008 (Hardcover): Aldo Zana The Monza 1000km - 1965-2008 (Hardcover)
Aldo Zana
R1,704 Discovery Miles 17 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Between 1965 and the Nineties, the 1000 Km of Monza-Filippo Caracciolo Trophy, was one of the most classical endurance races - a sort of 24 hours of Le Mans - and for many seasons was, rightfully, a round in the world championships for sports cars and prototypes. Top drivers and cars challenged each other on that historic Italian track and banking, the car makers including Porsche, Ferrari and Ford, bringing to life many unforgettable pages in the history of motor sport. Aldo Zana, prominent motor racing historian, tells this fabulous story, year after year, included the competitions held between 1995 and 2008. Every edition is enriched with starting grids and final placings. A huge work, never attempted since now, illustrated with outstanding pictures, many of them never before published.

The Story of Ferrari - A Tribute to Automotive Excellence (Hardcover): Stuart Codling The Story of Ferrari - A Tribute to Automotive Excellence (Hardcover)
Stuart Codling
R355 R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Save R38 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The Story of Ferrari is a pocket-sized and exceptionally designed celebration of the legendary manufacturer. Speed, luxury, excellence and innovation have defined Ferrari as the world's most revered car manufacturer for more than 70 years. In The Story of Ferrari, every key aspect of the Prancing Horse's history is explored and showcased, from the first car built under the Ferrari name in 1947 through to the global giant and cultural force it has become today. Delving into the design and engineering philosophies instilled by Enzo Ferrari, this book highlights the most iconic models across decades of Ferrari history, including the 125 S, F40, Testarossa and Enzo. Ferrari is also the most successful name in motorsport, with 16 Formula 1 Constructors' Championship titles to its name. The stories of its victories and adversities on the track, as well as the drivers and engineers who helped make it such a success, are covered here as well. Filled with stunning imagery and insightful commentary, The Story of Ferrari charts the history of this legendary marque in a package worthy of the name.

Car Racing 1968 (English, French, Hardcover): Alain Pernot, Johnny Rives, Manou Zurini Car Racing 1968 (English, French, Hardcover)
Alain Pernot, Johnny Rives, Manou Zurini
R2,026 Discovery Miles 20 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While the demonstrations of Spring 1968 all around the world were not the playing field of DPPI's (Diffusion Presse Photo International) photographers, the latter happily continued to flourish in the extraordinary world of motor racing, the atmosphere of which they captured to perfection. Their purpose was both to translate into images impressions like the frightening average speed per lap of 243 km/hr of the Belgian Grand Prix on the Spa-Francorchamps track or the clearance, complete with major skidding, of a snow-covered pass during the Monte-Carlo Rally, and to serve as complicit witnesses to the mixture of tension and freedom that inhabits these men and women of the racing world who gathered each weekend to share triumph and tragedy. It comes as no surprise that such a concentration of action and emotion made a strong impression on the public and inspired brands and emerging marketing services seeking new channels of communication. Text in English and French.

Superbike 2011-2012 - The Official Review (Hardcover): Claudio Porrozzi, Fabrizio Porrozzi Superbike 2011-2012 - The Official Review (Hardcover)
Claudio Porrozzi, Fabrizio Porrozzi
R551 Discovery Miles 5 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The 2010 World Superbike Championship ended in victory for Italian rider Max Biaggi aboard and Italian motorcycle, the Aprilia. Now the 2011 championship is well under way with Carlos Checa and Ducati as the leaders and up to now unchallenged. Among the new aspects of this season there is the debut of another Italian rider, Marco Melandri on a Yamaha. The Superbike World Championship Official Book is now in its fourth year and, as always, aims to be the reference book of mass production-derived bikes. It is these machines that have, for many years, constituted the soul of motorcycle racing, uniting competition with a high technological content without ever overlooking their closeness to the normal road bikes. This is another book in the series that recounts the new world championship race-by-race, in particular through the spectacular pictures taken by Fabrizio Porrozzi, with precise text by his brother Claudio. As well as news of the maximum championship, the book also includes chapters on the other categories in the series, Supersport, Superstock 1000 and Superstock 600, which complete the packed program of the SBK World Championship.

Inside F1 - The perfect gift for the motorsport fan this Christmas (Hardcover): Lee McKenzie Inside F1 - The perfect gift for the motorsport fan this Christmas (Hardcover)
Lee McKenzie
R566 R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Save R60 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From an early age, Lee McKenzie had access to a motorsport world that most are rarely allowed into. From spending time in the paddock as a teen to becoming a highly respected Formula One journalist and presenter, Lee has been at the heart of motorsport for almost twenty years. On the frontline of one of the most watched sports on the planet and gaining the respect of F1 world champions with her tough but fair interview approach, Lee has shared experiences, hire cars, parties and friendships with a host of drivers from Michael Schumacher to Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel to Jenson Button. Inside F1 tells the stories of the careers of seven stars of the sport using her personal contact and interviews throughout the years. Lee's unique perspective takes us through the highs and lows, the controversies and crashes that led to some of the biggest and most memorable interviews in recent years. Lee's close relationship with the drivers makes Inside F1 an enthralling behind-the- scenes account of one of the biggest sports in the world.

Karting Explained (Paperback): Graham Smith Karting Explained (Paperback)
Graham Smith 1
R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Kart racing is a useful first step on the ladder to becoming a professional racing driver, teaching essential skills of track strategy, vehicle set-up and positive mindset. Many top drivers continue to enjoy karting for fun and fitness.

Ferrari - From Inside and Outside (Hardcover): James Allen Ferrari - From Inside and Outside (Hardcover)
James Allen; Photographs by Rainer Schlegelmilch, Ercole Colombo
R1,398 Discovery Miles 13 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

  • Ferrari Formula 1 through the lenses of two legendary photographers
  • Featuring hundreds of stunning photographs, many rarely seen
  • Contributions from iconic figures including Piero Ferrari, Luca di Montezemolo, Stefano Domenicali, Jean Todt and legendary designer Mauro Forghieri
  • A must-have book for the Ferrari fan

"Before I knew them, before my professional experience in F1 began, I was watching F1 through their eyes. They became very important people in the world of F1, through the fact that they were always able to capture the right moment with the right tension that you can feel also from looking at a picture." - Formula 1 ceo Stefano Domenicali

Ferrari is the beating heart of the global sporting phenomenon that is Formula 1. Its founder, Enzo Ferrari, was born on the racetrack as a competition driver before he became a creator of mythical road cars. No other team can inspire the passion or match the stories of triumph and tragedy.

Rainer Schlegelmilch and Ercole Colombo are two of Formula 1’s most legendary photographers. They covered the sport from the 1960s onwards, with amazing access inside the Scuderia. Here, for the first time, they come together to pay tribute to Formula 1’s most iconic team.

Ferrari: From Inside and Outside features contributions from iconic figures including Piero Ferrari, Luca di Montezemolo, Stefano Domenicali, Jean Todt and legendary designer Mauro Forghieri. The book is edited by internationally celebrated Formula 1 commentator and Michael Schumacher’s biographer, James Allen.
Motorsport and Fascism - Living Dangerously (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Paul Baxa Motorsport and Fascism - Living Dangerously (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Paul Baxa
R3,140 Discovery Miles 31 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the first English-language study of motorsport and Italian Fascism, arguing that a synergy existed between motor racing and Fascism that did not exist with other sports. Motorsport was able to bring together the two dominant, and often opposed, cultural roots of Fascism, the Futurism of F. T. Marinetti, and the Decadence associated with Gabriele D'Annunzio. The book traces this cultural convergence through a topical study of motorsport in the 1920s and 1930s placing it in the context of the history of sport under Mussolini's regime. Chapters discuss the centrality of speed and death in Fascist culture, the attempt to transform Rome into a motorsport capital, the architectural and ideological function of the Monza and Tripoli and autodromes, and two chapters on the importance of the Mille Miglia, a genuine Fascist artefact that became one of the most legendary motor races of all time.

The Complete Book of Ducati Motorcycles, 2nd Edition - Every Model Since 1946 (Hardcover, Second Edition, New Edition): Ian... The Complete Book of Ducati Motorcycles, 2nd Edition - Every Model Since 1946 (Hardcover, Second Edition, New Edition)
Ian Falloon
R1,177 R1,093 Discovery Miles 10 930 Save R84 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Valentino Rossi, Revised and Updated - Life of a Legend (Hardcover, Second Edition, Revised Edition): Michael Scott Valentino Rossi, Revised and Updated - Life of a Legend (Hardcover, Second Edition, Revised Edition)
Michael Scott
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Formula 1 Technology - The engineering explained (Hardcover): Steve Rendle Formula 1 Technology - The engineering explained (Hardcover)
Steve Rendle
R1,857 R1,493 Discovery Miles 14 930 Save R364 (20%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This book explains how modern Formula 1 cars work and demystifies the extraordinary technology they contain. By meticulously dissecting an F1 car into its constituent components, the author describes the design, engineering and function of every element, enabling the reader to develop a full understanding of how it all comes together to form a competitive package. The text is expertly written to satisfy both the engineering-minded reader as well as any enthusiast of the sport who wants to delve deeper, and supplemented by a superb range of close-up photographs, technical illustrations and diagrams. All F1 fans will find this book a deeply rewarding companion to enhance their appreciation of the sport.

Golden Horizon - Delight Yourself in the Lord and He Will Give You the Desires of Your Heart. Psalm 37:4 (Paperback): Danniel... Golden Horizon - Delight Yourself in the Lord and He Will Give You the Desires of Your Heart. Psalm 37:4 (Paperback)
Danniel Campbell
R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Making it FASTER II - The Indianapolis and Grand Prix Cars (Hardcover): Norm DeWitt Making it FASTER II - The Indianapolis and Grand Prix Cars (Hardcover)
Norm DeWitt; Foreword by Robin Miller
R1,168 Discovery Miles 11 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A History of Organizational Change - The case of Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), 1946-2020 (Hardcover,... A History of Organizational Change - The case of Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), 1946-2020 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Hans Erik Naess
R3,631 Discovery Miles 36 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the first independent exploration of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile's (FIA) institutional history. Virtually unexamined compared with similar institutions like the FIFA and the IOC, the FIA has nevertheless changed from being a small association in 1904 to becoming one of the world's most influential sport governing bodies. Through chronologically organised chapters, this book explains how the FIA manages to link together motorsport circuses like Formula 1 with the automotive industry and societal issues like road safety and environmental sustainability. In an exciting narrative spanning seven decades, it reviews the FIA's organisational turning points, governing controversies, political dramas and sporting tragedies. Considering the FIA to be a unique type of hybrid organisation characterised by what the author calls 'organisational emulsion', this case study contains theoretical innovations relevant to other studies of sport governing bodies. It makes an empirically grounded contribution to the research fields of institutional logics, historical sociology and sport governance.

Alfa Romeo - The Competition History since 1945 (Hardcover): Peter Collins Alfa Romeo - The Competition History since 1945 (Hardcover)
Peter Collins
R1,698 Discovery Miles 16 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book celebrates the extraordinary sporting legacy behind the name Alfa Romeo, and is a unique record of every type of Alfa Romeo associated with official and, at times, not so official Alfa sporting achievements from 1945 to the present day. This photographic album and record consists entirely of period photographs, many previously unpublished, with a full description of each car's sporting achievement, and is the result of many years of research.

Concrete for Breakfast - More Tales from the Shale (Paperback): Jeff Scott Concrete for Breakfast - More Tales from the Shale (Paperback)
Jeff Scott
R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jeff Scott serves up yet another portion of methanol inspired lunacy to satisfy your speedway craving appetite with his latest book CONCRETE FOR BREAKFAST. Although some view speedway as little more than a fairground sideshow attraction, Scott continues to validate the sport's authenticity as he celebrates the romance of its racing, the bravery of its competitors, and the idiosyncrasies of its partisans on and off the track. An equal opportunity offender, motorcycle speedway thumbs its nose at the nanny-state bureaucrats of Health and Safety as well as the ubiquitous corporate media that enlists the drama and daring of the sport to validate its mission of spin, profit, and mediocrity. But, of course, any sport composed of individuals who willingly embrace the physical and mental challenges of speedway must by definition be considered daring, maverick and subversive. Consider the physical challenges of speedway: riding a high powered motorcycle without brakes or gears, steering only by balance, gravity, and gyroscopic luck four times round a shale covered track at speeds exceeding 60 miles per hour. The bike itself, a huge single piston 500cc machine, without suspension, powered by methanol, roars its sweet hymn to oblivion to those who ride and to those who watch. The mandated helmets and kevlars are the merest genuflection in the direction of self-preservation. In short, the entire enterprise constitutes a complete commitment to barking madness. Let Jeff Scott introduce you to this most anachronistic of sports in 21st Century Britain. If you do you will eventually succumb to the spectacle, the people, and the journey across its peculiar landscape and geographies. You will learn the rhythms of the unvarying repetitiousness of the team meeting format as well as the uniqueness of each individual race. With his gift for location, dialogue, and the human comedy, Jeff will escort you into his world of speedway. There you will accompany him as he watches every speedway team in Britain compete. He lends you his nose as he savors the aroma of methanol, burgers, chips, stressed toilets, and excitement. From his favorite vantage point in the lee of the stadium grandstand or lost in thought on the road to (or from) yet another event behind the wheel and the wipers of his much abused car, Jeff will help you begin your own pilgrimage to speedway. And even though there may well be CONCRETE FOR BREAKFAST for some unlucky riders whose quest for glory ends in a bruised heap of broken bones and bike, Jeff will cleave the chaos for you in a such a way that the event will be invariably portrayed with the charm, irreverence, humanity and compassion that informs the style of this most unique of sports' most unique diarist. This volume is the fifth book in a planned trilogy gone terribly, terribly wrong. It's a "must have" companion to Jeff's masterpiece Showered in Shale as well as his others: Shifting Shale, When Eagles Dared, or the poignantly photographed Shale Britannia.

Ford versus Ferrari - The battle for supremacy at Le Mans 1966 (Paperback): John Starkey Ford versus Ferrari - The battle for supremacy at Le Mans 1966 (Paperback)
John Starkey
R502 R421 Discovery Miles 4 210 Save R81 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What happened when America's richest car company, producing many thousands of cars per year, went head to head with Ferrari of Italy in the mid `60s? This is the story of an immovable force coming up against the stubbornness of an unmovable object - that is, Ford against Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari, whose company produced less than four hundred cars per year in 1963, wasn't going to bow to Ford after he had turned down its offer to buy his company. The only place left to duke it out was on the racetracks of the world ... and one in particular: Le Mans.

Porsche 356 - 75th Anniversary (Hardcover): Gordon Maltby Porsche 356 - 75th Anniversary (Hardcover)
Gordon Maltby; Foreword by Grant Larson
R1,356 Discovery Miles 13 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Le Mans Winning Colours - A Visual History of 100 Years of the 24-Hour Race (Hardcover): Mick Hill Le Mans Winning Colours - A Visual History of 100 Years of the 24-Hour Race (Hardcover)
Mick Hill
R780 R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Save R105 (13%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Celebrating 100 years of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, motorsport’s iconic endurance race, technical illustrator Mick Hill takes us on a potted history of this world-famous event. The follow-on book to his successful Grand Prix’s Winning Colours, Mick once again allows his signature artwork to take centre stage, presenting a complete visual record of every winning car since the championship began back in 1923. Including details of the cars’ drivers, as well as interesting facts about each race, such as weather conditions, distance covered and average speeds, Le Mans Winning Colours is a book to treasure for all racing-car enthusiasts.

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