Ivan Rendall Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Fully updated, this book provides a comprehensive history of international motor racing with extensive colour illustrations. Each chapter covers the history of racing year-by-year, from its birth in France in 1894 up to the present. Ivan Rendell covers the technical details of the racing car, the history of races such as Targa Florio and the Indianapolis 500 and conveys the thrill of high speed racing.

Both a complete history of aerial combat in the jet age and the true story behind the idea of "Top Gun", the book has the facts, but it alos provides an absorbing insight into the true culture of the fighter pilot.

Als Ayrton Senna am Wochenende des Großen Preises von San Marino am 1. Mai 1994 starb, erschütterte der Schock die Welt. Brasilien erklärte drei Tage nationale Trauer, während die Sportwelt begann, Sennas Beitrag zum Motorsport und seinen Platz im Pantheon der größten Rennfahrer aller Zeiten zu bewerten. Dieses Buch beleuchtet sein frühes Leben in Brasilien, seinen Durchbruch im Motorsport und seinen Aufstieg in den unteren Formeln bis hin zu seinen Triumphen in der Formel 1, einschließlich seiner drei Weltmeisterschaften. Es wird auch Sennas anderes Leben als erfolgreicher Geschäftsmann und als Lieblingssohn seines Landes betrachtet.

"The Chequered Flag" is a complete record of the world's most popular sport at the top level. The author gives a year by year narrative account of motor racing from the first road race run in France in 1894 to the present. Charting the astonishing technical development of the racing car over the last 100 years, and of the sport itself from road racing to organized sport, and the divergent strands on either side of the Atlantic, he discusses the drivers, the cars, the designers, the impresarios, and the overriding importance and influence of commercialism. The book has an extensive cross-referencing system for easy access of information, a photograph of every winning type of car, every World Champion and every American Champion and detailed results tables for every year. m

Compelling story of a century of motor racing.