Books

Whether you want to toy around with the latest F1 cars or race as an F2 driver, F1 22 for PlayStation, Xbox and Windows has plenty to offer. With US…

Must remember not to use the adjective ‘definitive’ in this review, because that’s just what I thought Simon Moore’s previous books would turn out to be, only he keeps demonstrating…

Ultimate Works Porsche 962, a new book of unprecedented depth and detail on the legendary Le Mans car, is set to be released at Hexagon Classics

I’m glad I can open this review with the Darl’mat versions of the Peugeots which raced successfully at Le Mans and elsewhere in the 1930s, otherwise a book about a…

Scholarly. That’s the best word for this discussion on the future of automotive history. It’s hard to summarise how much long-time collector and archivist Miles Collier packs into this wide-ranging…

There’s a joke that runs “But apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?” Lance Macklin’s story is similar: what else do you know about him except…

Here’s an honour: in his foreword Bernie Ecclestone says the BRP team “pointed the way for Formula 1”. Quite a compliment from the man who created the modern sport. He’s…

Why do we spend more time remembering the glorious failure of the V16 than we do the cars that finally brought grand prix victory to the optimistic BRM marque? Is…

Anybody with an interest in vintage chart music will know that this glossy, 258-page book about France’s ruthless march into motor racing from 1966-74 shares its title with Peter Gabriel’s…

So much has already been said about Max Verstappen including in the documentary Whatever It Takes, as well as several biographies, that the big question about André Hoogeboom’s Max: The…

A vast book on Porsche competition and not a single mention of the 911 or 956/62? Huge and weighty though it is, this book starts with 1948 and cuts off in…

Although there seems a certain amount of finality surrounding MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi’s retirement from two-wheeled racing, we have to remember that this, for him, is merely the closing of…

There’s a superb moment in the 1969 car-race caper Monte Carlo or Bust where Major Digby Dawlish (Peter Cook) and Lt Kit Barrington (Dudley Moore), driving the ‘1928 Lea-Francis Special…

One of the first plastic kits I remember building as a lad was John Surtees’ Can-Am Lola T70 spyder. Even then I loved the shape though I had yet to…

There’s a photo in here which made me blink when that page fell open – the life-size face of Jenks gazing at me with those shrewd eyes. It took me…

We all have a copy of Full Throttle, don’t we? A core book of any motoring library, written by a dashing hero of the track. Have we all read it…

Should Netflix or Amazon ever consider putting together a Mad Men-type series about the exploits if the car industry in the Midlands from the 1960s to the '90s, they could…