Jo Siffert

Ed Heuvink, author of the very interesting book about the Swiss racing team Scuderia Filipinetti, brings out his latest work about the most famous Swiss race driver ever: Jo ‘Seppi’ Siffert.

The first question I asked myself was why did no Swiss author ever write such a book? Why is it a motor enthusiast from Holland?
The [...]

Les Suisses au Mans 2010 (Tome 5)

I discovered the first books [Tome 1 and Tome 2] of this series in the beginning of 2009, it was hard to find them as there is not much about them in the internet and the books are fully written in french so there is probably no single review in english out there…

This year I [...]

Encyclopédie des 24 heures du Mans

Focus of the book: Coverage of the full history of the Le Mans 24 Hours race from 1923 to 2010, each car, each driver, each team and each detail about the track and its surroundings in a never seen detail… 1500 pages, 15kg… What else?? :-)

The book is released on December 15th, I ordered [...]

Auto Draft

The official annuals of the Le Mans 24 Hours get bigger and bigger form one year to the next one.

This annual of the 2010 edition start on Sunday, 1 week before the end of the race with 40 pages about scrutineering and administrative checks. Nice photos in this chapter!

Some pages are dedicated about the “Golden [...]

Die Aussenseiter

Focus of the book: This book is a true treasure when it comes to summarize the Swiss history in Motorsports from 1950 to 2006: Carefully researched and written in great detail, interesting also for non-Swiss race enthusiasts as it tells many stories around famous races in that time range. Thanks to Nina and her father [...]

Corvette - Racing Legends

Focus of the book: This book was made with love, with true love for the Corvette racing history especially the L-88, as driven by the Scuderia Filipinetti from 1968 to 1969 at Le Mans!

The Content:
14 years of research have gone into this book and all of it was done by an NCRS member (National Corvette [...]

Le Mans 1960 - 1969

Focus of the book: An officially licensed book by the Automobile Club de L’Ouest (A.C.O.) summarizing a whole decade. This is the first book from an upcoming series by author Quentin Spurring: 8 Volumes are currently planned in order to cover the whole history of Le Mans in great detail: 1923 – today.

The book is [...]

Sportwagen Story 2009

Focus of the book: If you are not really into buying racing books but you somehow have a little interest in gaining an overview of the most important Prototype and GT racing events then THIS BOOK is for you!

It covers the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 24 Hours of Nürburgring (Nordschleife), the Le Mans [...]

Official Annual Le Mans 24 Hours 2009

This is just a fantastic book! High quality pictures (and there are lots of!), very nice hourly summaries, good coverage of the practice sessions as well as the traditional statistics of the race, the drivers, the teams and the manufacturers.

The book also covers the return of Aston Martin in LMP1 after 50 years in detail [...]

Les Suisses au Mans 2009 (Tome 4)

Unlike Part 1 and 2 of this series, part 4 (2009) is summarizing all details of the Swiss at le Mans 2009 across 60 pages and dedicates a chapter for each decade:
- 1999, 1989, 1979, 1969, 1959, 1949 and 1939 are well desribed across 120 pages.

The book has been written by these Swiss authors:
- Jean-Marie [...]