Wikipedia:WikiProject Motorsport/Library/General
General Motorsport
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| Title | Year | Author | Covers | Held by | Publisher | ISBN |
| Drive It! The Complete Book of Formula 2 Motor Racing | 1984 | Tristan Wood | History, circuits, drivers, cars - all F2. | Bretonbanquet | Haynes Group | ISBN 0-85429-366-3 |
| Racing the Silver Arrows: Mercedes-Benz versus Auto Union 1934-1939 | 1986 | Chris Nixon | Detailed look at racing in the 1930s with a particular emphasis on Auto-Union and Mercedes-Benz. | Readro | Osprey Publishing | ISBN 0-85184-055-8 |
| The Complete History of Grand Prix Motor Racing | 1990 | Adriano Cimarosti | Every Grand Prix season (or equivalent) from 1894 to 1989, including a focus on cars and tracks. | Apterygial | Crescent Books | ISBN 0-517-69709-2 |
| Sports Car and Competition Driving | 1993 | Paul Frère | Driving theory, technique, physics, race tactics, | Readro | Patrick Stephens | ISBN 1-85260-438-7 |
| The Chequered Flag: 100 Years of Motor Racing | 1993 | Ivan Rendall | Covering all top forms of motorsport, basically the whole history of the sport. | Apterygial Readro |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson | ISBN 0-297-83220-4 |
| Street Stock Chassis Technology | 1994 | Steve Smith | Tips and techniques for constructing and altering a street stock racecar - suspension (refinements, setup, springs, shocks, front end alignment), stagger, scaling, adjustment to track conditions, etc. | Royalbroil | Steve Smith Autosports Publications | ISBN 0-936834-92-7 |
| The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing | 1994 | Peter Higham | Detailed statistical compendium of major motorsport formulae and races, both international and national, from the 19th century to 1994 | Midgrid | Guinness Publishing | ISBN 0-85112-642-1 |
| The Chequered Flag: 100 Years of Motor Racing | 1997 ed. | Ivan Rendall | Covering all top forms of motorsport, basically the whole history of the sport. | Bretonbanquet | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | ISBN 0-297-82402-3 |
| A century of Grand Prix motor racing | 1998 | Anthony Pritchard | A season-by-season account of Grand Prix racing from 1895 to 1998. Selected features including driver profiles, Grand Prix reports, interviews, etc. | Readro | Motor Racing Publications | ISBN 1-899870-38-5 |
| A-Z of Formula racing cars 1945 - 1990 | 1998 | David Hodges | Exhaustive A-Z guide to F1, F2, F3, F3000, and FJunior cars. Brief constructor histories. | 4u1e | Bay View Books | ISBN 1-901432-17-3 |
| Motor racing's strangest races | 2001 | Geoff Tibballs | Accounts of races and rallies that were notable for bizarre happenings. | Readro Bretonbanquet |
Robson Books | ISBN 1-86105-411-4 |
| Women in Motorsport | 2003 | Susan TP-Jamieson Peter Tutthill |
Encyclopedia of practically every woman who raced or rallied cars from 1945-2003. | Bretonbanquet | Jaker / BWRDC | ISBN 0-9544315-0-2 |
| Grand Prix Century: The First 100 Years of the World's Most Glamorous and Dangerous Sport | 2005 | Christopher Hilton | Essentially a novel-form story of Grand Prix racing, from 1906 to 2005, with a focus on important races. | Apterygial | Haynes Publishing | ISBN 1-84425-120-9 |
| Hitler's Motor Racing Battles: The Silver Arrows under the Swastika | 2008 | Eberhard Reuss Angus McGeoch (trans) |
The Silver Arrows of Auto-Union and Mercedes-Benz under the Nazi regime. | Apterygial Readro |
Haynes Publishing | ISBN 978-1-84425-476-7 |
IRL / CART / Indianapolis 500
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| Title | Year | Author | Covers | Held by | Publisher | ISBN |
| The Indianapolis 500: the Story of the Motor Speedway | 1956 | Brock Yates | General history of the Indy 500 and speedway from the start to the races of the early/mid 1950s | GURoadrunner | Harper & Brothers, New York | Unk. -- see WorldCat |
| IndyCar Champion: A Season with Target/Chip Ganassi Racing | 1998 | Ned Wicker | A 1997 CART season profile of Target Chip Ganassi Racing; Zanardi, Vasser, team info, results | GURoadrunner | Motorbooks International | ISBN 0-7603-0394-0 |
| Indy Cars of the 1960s | 2001 | Karl Ludvigsen | Mostly photos, but also some technical detail on many of the 60s machines. | Bretonbanquet | Iconografix | ISBN 1-58388-052-6 |
| Indy: The Race and Ritual of the Indianapolis 500 (2nd ed.) | 2005 | Terry Reed | Comprehensive history of the event, with incredible off-track detail. | Bretonbanquet | Potomac Books | ISBN 1-57488-907-9 |
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