Haynes Publishing has recently released Christopher Hilton’s latest book, Grand Prix Battlegrounds. Sixty-six circuits are featured. From Argentina’s Buenos Aires to Watkins Glen in New York state. Grand Prix Battlegrounds is well illustrated and features photos from 1950 through to 2009.
The young Porsche company adopted a Win on Sunday – Sell on Monday philosophy to promote sales of its road cars. With Porsche’s limited budget, posters were used for advertising. In 1950 Richard von Frankenberg met artist Erich Strenger and offered him work creating posters, announcements and other promotional materials for Porsche.
Diedrich Dsenbrock has published a new book on the iconic sports racing cars of the 1950s – the era of front engines, skinny tires and “if it looks right it must be right” aerodynamics. Made over a period of almost 20 years, these are Diedrich’s favorite images of his favorite cars.
The cover…action shot of a Birdcage Maserati in turn 6 at Laguna Seca – doing this turn well is important as it leads to the uphill back-straight. The morning light & shadows highlight the last great front-engined sportsracing car .
Since 1991 French painter and sculptor Stéphane DUFOUR has followed his passion and created unique automobile themed art. Mr. DUFOUR produces original and limited edition sculpture, paintings and digital artwork. His work emphasizes light, form and sensuality of the chosen subjects.
A package offer containing both the 2008 and 2009 Monterey Historic Races Windows® OS interactive CD-ROMs has been added to the Track Thoughts eBay store. The two CDs are priced at $54.95. Purchased separately the two Windows® OS interactive CD-ROMs retail for $64.90.
On July 4, 1910 a series of races were held at Moclips Beach, Washington. Of the eight scheduled events, five were run. There were races for cars in value under $2,000, $ 3,000, $4,000, over $4,000 and a Free-For-All. The Seattle Touring Club organized an outing and spent over 11 hours driving to Moclips. The Northern Pacific railway organized a special train for spectators.
The Prancing Horse, quarterly magazine of the Ferrari Club of America, has published a review of the Track Thoughts Ferrari 512M s/n 1040 Windows® CD-ROM. The review, in Issue #172 3rd quarter 2009, complemented an article on the Penske/Sunoco Ferrari by Bill Preston. Preston worked for Sunoco’s Automotive Laboratory as a chemical engineer responsible for research on automotive fuels and lubricants. When Sunoco sponsored the Penske team he was assigned as the liaison between the two companies.
An updated version of the Anatomy of a Race Car Series: Volume 1 Ferrari 512M s/n 1040 Windows® OS CD-ROM is available through the Track Thoughts eBay Store
I’ve been collecting race tickets since I started attending races more that 35 years ago. After each event the race program would be filed and the ticket is tossed into a box.
