THE CHEQUERED FLAG: 100 YEARS OF MOTOR RACING
Written by Ivan Rendall
Published by Ted Smart
in 1995
ISBN: 0297832204
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THE CHEQUERED FLAG: 100 YEARS OF MOTOR RACING
Written by Ivan Rendall.
Stock no. 2107462
1st thus.
1995.
Hardback.
Large format.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
A unique, year by year reference of 100 years of international motor racing. Updated and reprinted. Large format. Green pictorial glazed boards. Colour and b/w photos. Foreword by Nigel Mansell. 400 pages including index. ISBN: 0297832204. A few small marks to prelims. Contents otherwise clean. Dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased with a couple of small nicks.
THE CHEQUERED FLAG: 100 YEARS OF MOTOR RACING
Written by Ivan Rendall.
Stock no. 1603405
1st thus.
1995.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A unique, year by year reference of 100 years of international motor racing. Updated and reprinted. Large format. Green pictorial glazed boards. Colour and b/w photos. Foreword by Nigel Mansell. 400 pages including index. ISBN: 0297832204. Two partially removed (some surface paper damage) white sticky labels to top corner of front endpaper with a gift inscription. Faint inscription carbon printed to title page. Light wear to joints. A few minor foxspots to top edge of text block. Contents are clean. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and a little faded especially to front panel.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- CHAPTER ONE 1894-1905: Pioneers, Sportsmen & Mr Gordon Bennett
- CHAPTER TWO 1906-1914: Grand Prix, Brooklands & Building the Brickyard
- CHAPTER THREE 1915-1918: Engines, Aeroplanes & Dirt Track Champions
- CHAPTER FOUR 1919-1925: Superchargers, Single-seaters & Roaring Boards
- CHAPTER FIVE 1926-1933: Red Cars, Blue Cars & the Wall Street Crash
- CHAPTER SIX 1934-1941: Stock Cars, Silver Arrows & Vorsprung Durch Technik
- CHAPTER SEVEN 1942-1949: Closedown, Rebirth & the Casaulties of War
- CHAPTER EIGHT 1950-1958: Little Cars, Big Cars & World Champions
- CHAPTER NINE 1959-1967: Evolution, Revolution & Engines in the Back
- CHAPTER TEN 1968-1976: Cosworth, Wings & Freedom for All
- CHAPTER ELEVEN 1977-1988: Turbos, Television & Plastic Roller-Skates
- CHAPTER TWELVE 1989-1993: Safety, Sponsorship & the Price of Victory
- Results