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Grand Prix Racing is motorsport in its highly evolved form. It is the best drivers on the most challenging circuits racing the most technologically advanced cars in the world. There is no greater prestige in auto racing than to be Formula One world champion. Though two Americans have been World Champions, Phil Hill and Mario Andretti, America's long, rich history of Grand Prix competition is sometimes forgotten. America hosted international Grand Prix events as far back as 1908, and some of this contry's greatest early drivers - men like David Bruce-Brown, Ralph DePalma, Barney Oldfield, and Ralph Mulford - matched skills and daring with Europe's best on high-speed courses in Savanna, Milwaukee, San Francisco, and Santa Monica.
American Grand Prix Racing is the ultimate chronicle of America's involvment at the highest level of international motor racing. Author Tim Considine has left no source unreviewed in telling this story. This book is a must-have for all Grand Prix fans.
By Tim Considine
Foreword by Phil Hill
Motorbooks International - 1997
Hardbound, 10¼" x 10¼" / 26cm x 26cm
194 pages, 200+ black & white and 28 color photos
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