AMERICAN RACING
ROAD RACING IN THE 50S AND 60S
American Racing - a large-format, high-quality book - is an intensely intimate and revealing portrait in photographs and words of some of the greatest moments in the history of road racing.
It was the 1950s, European-style road racing was just coming into its own in the Americas. Europe's factory teams began arriving in force to conquer this new frontier.
Momentum gathered quickly. Legendary venues such as Sebring and Watkins Glen, Nassau, Cuba, Venezuela and Mosport sprang into being, as did obscure airport and private road courses with names like Cumberland and Bridgehampton, Montgomery, Beverly and Brynfan Tyddyn.
For most of the 1950s and '60s, at these circuits and other up and down the Eastern Coast of America and inland as far as Elkhart Lake and Eagle Mountain, photojournalist Tom Burnside chronicled the flowering of American motorsport from an insider's point of view.
Illuminating Burnside's powerful and evocative photographs of the cars, the people, and the racing scene is a fascinating and personal retelling of these amazing events by motoring journalist Denise McCluggage, then one of America's best race drivers.
America Racing captures the feel and look of racing as never before. The extraordinary photographs in this book perfectly portray the spirit and energy of an era, and will stand as the defining images of the American racing scene in a time that has all but faded from memory.
American Racing: Road Racing in the 50s and 60s has 340 pages and a fantastic photo collection with 1000 b/w images. Text in English, German and French.
"The photographs are fabulous. They bring back so many memories of the best years of my life. This book is a must for every lover of sports car racing." Stirling Moss
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