Motor Racing Memories
WF Bradley
Sold by Crappy Old Books, Barry, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 6 February 2025
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketSold by Crappy Old Books, Barry, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 6 February 2025
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFasten your goggles, adjust your scarf to ?heroic,? and prepare for a whiff of Castrol and cord tyres. Motor Racing Memories (1960) by W. F. Bradley ?issued by the ever-octane Motor Racing Publications ?is the pit-lane raconteur who?s seen everything twice and still tells it as if the chequered flag is just about to drop. Bradley was there when cars looked like torpedoes with moustaches, when circuits were rustic suggestions fenced with hay and optimism, and when drivers brought their own nerve and occasionally a picnic. This isn?t a stats book; it?s a grandstand of voices . Bradley writes with that priceless paddock tone?half telegram, half champagne?where names enter like overtures: Nuvolari stalking the apex like a rumour , Caracciola conversing with weather , Birkin grinning at danger as if it owed him money . Races are sketched with a timekeeper?s certainty and a poet?s eyebrow: the start a thunderclap, the middle a negotiation, the finish a verdict delivered by tyres and luck. You hear the pit boards flapping, smell the hot brakes, and feel that particular pre-war/post-war hum where engineering and audacity are in dead heat. Expect within: Circuits as characters ?Brooklands brooding like a concrete Roman, the Nürburgring winding its eyebrows, Monza humming in italics, Reims wearing a bow tie it plans to set on fire. Garage folklore ?spanners that solved philosophy, mechanics who could reassemble a supercharger from memory and swearing, and the eternal truth that safety is a mood that arrives late. Drivers who refused to blink ?gentlemen, scoundrels, geniuses, all on first-name terms with velocity and occasionally with hedges. Machines that meant it ?Bentleys with the moral weight of cathedrals, Alfas that sang, Mercedes like verdicts, Maseratis that flirted with catastrophe and won. Moments you can taste ?dawn in the pits, rain learning to speak Italian, a last-lap pass that looks illegal but is merely inevitable. Bradley?s craft is perspective. He threads eras without dropping a nut: the derring-do of the twenties, the theatre of the thirties, the post-war reset when ingenuity returned lean and hungry. He refuses hagiography but can?t help affection; he?ll file the myth to fit the facts, then allow himself one graceful sentence for the goosebumps. Why this copy? It slips the scrutineering bay of the gloriously frank emporium Crappy Old Books in Condition: Very Good ?translation: clean pages, square spine, and just enough shelf-patina to suggest it once waited politely beside a programme and a pit pass . Not concours precious; driver-grade excellent . You can read it with hands that might still smell faintly of petrol and dignity. Vital stats for your glovebox library: Title: Motor Racing Memories Author: W. F. Bradley Publisher: Motor Racing Publications , 1960 ISBN: none (it answers to the revs) Condition: Very Good (crisp, straight, eager to start) Vendor: Crappy Old Books ?the name misfires; the stock pulls cleanly from idle. Buy it for the legends; keep it for the tempo ?that rising, falling, lunging rhythm of a race told by someone who knows where the stopwatch hides the poetry. After a few chapters you?ll begin cornering shopping trolleys with intent, referring to rain as ?a set-up variable,? and declaring tea ?a splash-and-dash.? When the last page waves the flag, you?ll close the book and hear, just faintly, an engine cooling itself into memory.
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