Italian Racing Red: Drivers, Cars and Triumphs of British Motor Racing

Venables, David

ISBN 10: 0711033315 / ISBN 13: 9780711033313

Published by Ian Allan, Hersham, UK, 2008

About this Item

176pp, in-text photogrpahs (mostly black and white) throughout. Red cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spines. 4to. Slight loss of cloth bottom of rear board. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear and chipping to edges, not price clipped.

Seller Inventory # 026385

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Italian Racing Red: Drivers, Cars and Triumphs of British Motor Racing
• Publisher: Ian Allan, Hersham, UK
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0711033315
• ISBN 13: 9780711033313
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sport and History of Sport

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Synopsis

A comprehensive study of this little-known interceptor, one of a number of projects developed by an increasingly desperate Nazi regime as the course of the war turned against them. 25 of the 36 built were flown. Launched vertically from a tower, they climbed at a phenomenal 11000m/minute to fire their battery of rockets at the USAAF's heavy bombers.

Synopsis

Ferrari is the quintessential bearer of Rosso Corsa, Italian Racing Red, in the 21st Century. Rightly so, because Ferrari Grand Prix cars have represented Italy in Formula 1 racing since the World Championship was established in 1950. But as Karl Ludvigsen explains in this stunning new book, there is much more to Rosso Corsa than Ferrari. In the sport's early years the power to reckon with was Fiat, who also set the pace after World War I. Then a feisty newcomer, Alfa Romeo, carried the Italian flag alongside, the Maserati brothers into the 1930s. Two racing drivers, Felice Nazzaro and Vincenzo Lancia, created their own car marques, one of which stormed into prominence in the 1950s. Italian drivers were to the fore with Tazio Nuvolari, Achille Varzi, Nino Farina, Gigi Villoresi and father and son Antonio and Alberto Ascari. Great races such as the Targo Florio and Mille Miglia, and the iconic circuit Monza, hosted many titanic battles. From Ferrari to Maserati, the Italians have certainly held a prime position in world motor racing.

These colourful contestants and many others come to life in the pages of this fabulous volume which are redolent with all the glamour and excitement of fast Italian cars and drivers!