POWER AND GLORY: THE HISTORY OF GRAND PRIX MOTOR RACING VOLUME 1 1906-1951
Written by William Court
Published by Patrick Stephens Limited
in 1988
ISBN: 1852601841
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- TRANSPORT
- CARS
- MOTOR SPORT
- FACSIMILE
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Front cover
Contents
- PART ONE - Setting the Stage: 1894-1911
- 1. The Earliest Days
- 2. The Grand Prix Becomes Established
- 3. Vanishing Edwardian Splendours
- 4. Voiturette Interlude The First
- 5. Le Grand Prix des Vieux Tacots
- PART TWO - From Veteran to Vintage: 1912-1921
- 6. The Struggle for Revival
- 7. Old Giveth Place to New
- 8. Le Plus Grand des Grands Prix
- 9. Redressing the Balance
- 10. A New Boillot
- 11. The Sorrows of Ernest Ballot
- PART THREE - The Vintage Years: 1922-1933
- 12. Vintage Prelude
- 13. Italian Risorgimento
- 14. A Famous Victory
- 15. The Trefle a Quatre Feuilles Crosses the Alps
- 16. Alfa Romeo - Triumph and Tragedy
- 17. The Harvest of Louis Delage - Burning the Tares
- 18. The Harvest of Louis Delage - Harvest Moonshine
- 19. Decline and Fall
- 20. The Ice is Broken
- 21. Three Cornered Duel
- 22. Monoposto Supremo
- PART FOUR - The Early Moderns: 1934-1951
- 23. The Old Order Changeth
- 24. German Cosolidation
- 25. The Rise of Rosemeyer
- 26. Full Engagement
- 27. The Litres Begin to Vanish
- 28. High Boost
- 29. Voiturette Interlude The Second
- 30. Quadrifoglio Supremo
- 31. The Hound, the Trident and the Horse
- 32. Not Victory...
- 33. The Titans Walk Again
- PART FIVE - Epilogues I/II and Appendices