Is there much we don’t know about Jack Brabham? As it turns out . . . yes, quite a lot. It’s a bold claim by the authors of this hardcover biography of…
THE well-worn cover of book at the opshop caught my eye: 211 Things a Bright Boy Can Do, it said, and it had typical 1950s UK boy magazine artwork: line drawings of…
CHAMPION spark plugs are among the world’s oldest and most popular. But they’re just a brand name — or so I thought. It turns out they were originally made by a Frenchman…
I’D never heard of a car called the Delaunay-Belleville until I saw a colour picture of one in Collector Cars of Australia. It’s a book by photographer Ken Stepnell, just published by…
A new book about the epic 10,000-mile London to Sydney Marathon opens with sensational claims that the race leader Lucien Bianchi’s Citroen was deliberately crashed into by a private motorist on the…
Race Across The Great Divide celebrates the decade that saw Australia emerge from a motorcycling backwater to become the epicentre of some of the most successful two-wheel talent the world has ever…
The Story of the Prancing Bull is is the definitive biography of Frank Reisner and his incredible sports car company, Intermeccanica – responsible for some of the most beautiful sports cars ever…
Two self-published books with largely motor sporting settings have hit the local market lately, with Brett Murray’s You Can’t Make That Shit Up garnering lots of media attention. It helps that ex-sports…
HEARD of Doug Nye? If you have an interest in motorsport, you probably have, since he’s the UK’s top motor racing historian and author of countless books. But right now he’s in…