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Gary
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Ee by gum... he's a bit wound up, in't he?
Mind you, I do understand and agree with Mike's points about admiring Rudi Caracciola for the races he won, not for the points he scored and his lack of fascination with the contrivance called the Drivers' World Championship.
I'm with Mike - and with Jenks - the fascination is about the contest, car on car, man on man. Yeah, we have to have hoopla, points, shoot outs (shoots-out?), championships and gee-wizzery, I understand that... but the purist in me can't resist the occasional  |
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TokyoAussie
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| I suspect that Mike has previously identified the "definitive" history of the sport. If so, does anyone know what that might be? If not, and Mike reads this himself, I'd love to know what resources there are about the pre-1950 and post-1950 eras. Any recommendations? |
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D-Type
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| TokyoAussie wrote: | | I suspect that Mike has previously identified the "definitive" history of the sport. If so, does anyone know what that might be? If not, and Mike reads this himself, I'd love to know what resources there are about the pre-1950 and post-1950 eras. Any recommendations? |
The best single volume covering from the year dot to, more or less, the present is The Complete History of Grand Prix Motor Racing by Adriano Cimarosti, latest English edition published 1997, ISBN 1 85410 500 0. This is streets ahead of any similarly titled tomes.
There are several books covering the post-1950 era and broadly speaking you get what you pay for.
For race-by-race coverage of championship races, Mike Lang's Grand Prix! series in 4 volumes (1950-1965, 1966-1973, 1974-1980 and 1981-84) take a lot of beating. These cover the races with little background on the cars or the drivers.
For driver biographies you need Grand Prix Who's Who by Steve Small, 3rd Edition 2000, ISBN 1-902-00746-8. potted biographies of every driver who has competed in the championship, ranging from 2 lines to 2 pages together with full record of starts and results.
You should be able to find these at specialist booksellers via the internet or occasionally on e-bay.
Offhand I can't think of a book covering prewar races in detail: some of the "100 years of Grand Prix racing" genre give more coverage of the prewar scene than others.
I hope this helps
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MatCoch
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Karl Ludvigsen (I think that's the spelling) has written a number of books which cover the early days. I seem to think one relates to pre-war Grands Prix cars.
There's also a great book by Chris Nixon called Racing the Silver Arrows which goes into Mercedes and Auto Union. |
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