When Motor Racing Was Fun - Hardcover

Apps, Bryan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841149667 ISBN 13: 9781841149660

Publisher: Halsgrove, 2009

Synopsis

With a Foreword by Sir Stirling Moss OBE
This fascinating book offers a unique record of
the days when motor racing was fun, as seen
through the eyes of those who were famously,
and sometimes hilariously, associated with it.
Anecdotes abound, and the text is supported by
motor racing memorabilia and the author's own
paintings, many of which are now the treasured
possessions of the drivers themselves.
The book also pays due regard to the serious
aspects of the sport and it contains the personal
reminiscences of the author over his 60 year love
affair with motor racing.
It is concerned with the period when the
technical development of the racing machines
was melded with the individualism of the drivers.
In the days before motor racing became a global
business, fraught as it is today with divisions
between the teams and the ruling body, the
author recalls the times when spectators and
drivers mingled in the pits, when celebrity came
second to character, and when a spirit of chivalry
still existed within the brotherhood of racing
drivers. Enzo Ferrari, Manfred von Brauchitsch,
Hermann Lang, Raymond Mays, Juan Fangio,
Stirling Moss, Duncan Hamilton, Ken Tyrrell, Jackie
Stewart, James Hunt and Nigel Mansell.
The author knew them all.
The book will be treasured by all who recall the
years when motor racing was fun, and will be
equally enjoyed by anyone who has an interest in
motor sport today.

About this title

About the Author

Bryan Apps has been an Anglican
priest in the Diocese ofWinchester
for nearly 50 years. His passion for
motor racing was ignited at the age of
twelve by a visit to Goodwood in
1949. He corresponded with
Raymond Mays, who was both the
originator of the E.R.A. and the
instigator of the B.R.M. project, in the
1950s and in later years was the guest
of KenTyrrell in the pits at Silverstone.
His paintings of racing cars and drivers
from the earliest days of the Sport are
wonderful evocations of their period
and they have led to lasting friendships
with many of the most famous racing
drivers from before and after the
SecondWorldWar.

Edition details

• Publisher: Halsgrove
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841149667
• ISBN 13: 9781841149660
• Binding: Hardcover