Formula 5000 Motor Racing : Back Then ... and Back Now
By: Lawson, Derek (Author).
Veloce Publishing PLC. Published: 31/10/2009. Audience Guide: General (US: Trade).
Hardback. Sourced from U.S.A.
This book covers a very popular 'formula' of racing cars that is generally untapped as a subject by other authors. Although Formula 5000 has never had the mass appeal of F1, in some instances the cars and drivers became favourites of spectators across the globe. Some drivers went on to great fame after their adventures in this genre - Peter Gethin in F1 and Brian Redman in Sports Cars, for example. Formula 5000 was launched in the UK and Europe in 1969, but fell by the wayside at the end of 1976 - although a few cars continued to run in other events after that. Some cars came back to circuits in 2003 as part of the Formula One Race Car Entrants (FORCE) package, but it was in 2004 that a lot more cars became really re-acquainted with their old haunts following the launch of the Derek Bell Trophy, backed by the UK's Historic Sports Car Club. This book will remind readers of both periods when the cars ran in anger. Item Details
ISBN10/13: 1845842162/9781845842161
TITLE: Formula 5000 Motor Racing
CONTRIBUTORS: Lawson, Derek (Author)
IMPRINT: Veloce Publishing PLC
PUBLISHER: Veloce Publishing PLC
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 31/10/2009
SUBJECT: Interests & Hobbies, Sports, Motor Vehicles & Workshop Manuals, Motorsport
DIMENSIONS (Width x Height): 250mm x 250mm
PAGES: 192
AUDIENCE GUIDE: General (US: Trade)
ILLUSTRATIONS: 151 illustrations
CONTENTS: 1 So what is Formula 5000? 2 In the beginning - 3 The story continues - 4 Concentration works! 5 More international competition arrives ... 6 Less horses, more power 7 An extended tour of Europe Other chapters will follow to allow the reader to cast his/her mind back to the 1975 and 1976 seasons which began optimistically but gradually led to the demise of the genre. Later chapters, however, will describe how initiatives by certain key figures in the sport saw a reinvention of the cars' appeal to drivers and their spectator fascination reawakened, whilst giving details of the races where they competed.
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