Formula 5000 Motor Racing: Back Then ... and Back Now - Hardcover

Lawson, Derek

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845842162 ISBN 13: 9781845842161

Publisher: Veloce, 2009

Synopsis

This book covers a very popular ‘formula' of racing cars that is generally untapped as a subject by other authors. Although Formula 5000 has never had the mass appeal of F1, in some instances the cars and drivers became favourites of spectators across the globe. Some drivers went on to great fame after their adventures in this genre – Peter Gethin in F1 and Brian Redman in Sports Cars, for example. Formula 5000 was launched in the UK and Europe in 1969, but fell by the wayside at the end of 1976 – although a few cars continued to run in other events after that. Some cars came back to circuits in 2003 as part of the Formula One Race Car Entrants (FORCE) package, but it was in 2004 that a lot more cars became really re-acquainted with their old haunts following the launch of the Derek Bell Trophy, backed by the UK's Historic Sports Car Club. This book will remind readers of both periods when the cars ran in anger.

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About the Author

Derek Lawson is a native of Houghton-le-Spring, where he lived there for the first twenty-three years of his life but now lives in Cheshire. His introduction to motorsport came in 1975, after he was invited to a club race meeting at Croft; several more visits followed. After moving south in 1982, Derek frequented Brands Hatch and Silverstone, mainly for Grands Prix but also the occasional club meeting. A move back north to his present home at the beginning of 1990 introduced him to Oulton Park, and he became a Marshal at meetings there. He is currently training to be a Clerk-of-the Course.

Edition details

• Publisher: Veloce
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845842162
• ISBN 13: 9781845842161
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192