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Item Details
| Title:
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THE LAST ROAD RACE
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| By: |
Richard Williams |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0297645587 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780297645580 |
| Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2004 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Presents an account of the 1957 Pescara Grand Prix, which marked the end of an era in motor racing. This book aims to bring this pivotal race back to life, and show how far the sport has changed in the intervening fifty years. It also includes testaments from four drivers who competed - Stirling Moss, Tony Brooks, Roy Salvadori and Jack Brabham. |
| Synopsis: |
The 1957 Pescara Grand Prix marked the end of an era in motor racing. Sixteen cars and drivers raced over public roads on the Adriatic coast in a three-hour race of frightening speed and constant danger. Stirling Moss won the race, beating the great Juan Manuel Fangio (in his final full season) and ending years of supremacy by the Italian teams of Ferrari and Maserati. Richard Williams brings this pivotal race back to life, reminding us of how far the sport has changed in the intervening fifty years. The narrative includes testaments from the four surviving drivers who competed - Stirling Moss, Tony Brooks, Roy Salvadori and Jack Brabham. This is a brilliant account of one of the great sporting events of the last century, at a time when for a grand prix driver 'the chances of survival were statistically no better than those of a Battle of Britain fighter pilot'. |
| Illustrations: |
16 |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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