TWO NEW BOOKS JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS
Jörg-Thomas Födisch & Rainer Rossbach.
Volume 44 Issue 25
Dec 8, 2019
With racing cars being built mainly for performance, only few of them combine this with admirable beauty. Ferrari’s model 312 P is definitely such an example - thanks to the work of its designers Giacomo Caliri and Edmondo Casoli, but also Enzo Ferrari, who tried to stop the team adding wings or other aerodynamic additions to its beauty - even if they might have improved the car’s performance.
312 P - One of Ferrari’s most beautiful racers
With racing cars being built mainly for performance, only few of them combine this with admirable beauty. Ferrari’s model 312 P is definitely such an example - thanks to the work of its designers Giacomo Caliri and Edmondo Casoli, but also Enzo Ferrari, who tried to stop the team adding wings or other aerodynamic additions to its beauty - even if they might have improved the car’s performance.
The 312 P was built for the 1969 World Sportscar Championship and powered by a stunning 3-litre V12 engine. A short development period and a small budget led to a season of mixed results where, except in Monza and at Le Mans, only one car was sent to the races to take on all the other teams. Its official career ended when the bigger 5-litre 512 S came for the 1970 season to fight the Porsche 917s.
This book by Gianni Agnesa tells the story of the car - of which only three examples were built - in every detail, from the very first test, through every race with the factory team or later when the North American Racing Team took over the cars. It gives short portraits of the drivers of the 312 P, such as Chris Amon, Mario Andretti, Pedro Rodríguez, Peter Schetty, Mike Parkes, Tony Adamowicz, Chuck Parsons and Sam Posey. The 264-page volume takes us to today and the one example that is still used on some historic events.
The large-format, high quality book produced by McKlein comes in a slipcase and is illustrated by many previously unseen images.
Publisher: McKlein Publishing
Author: Gianni Agnesa
Format: 27 x 29.5 cm, hardcover in a slipcase, 264 pages, 114 color and 123 black-and-white pictures and illustrations.
Languages: English, Italian and German
https://www.rallyandracing.com/en/mcklein-store/books/312-p-one-of-ferrari-s-most-beautiful-racers
€89.90 Shipping costs are additional.
Sharknose V6 - Ferrari 156, Ferrari 246SP & Ferrari 196SP
The story of the “Sharknose” mid-engined Ferrari is full of glamor and drama. Outstanding achievements, such as winning the Formula 1 World Championship in 1961 by the American Phil Hill, go hand in hand with deep abysses such as the death of Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators at the 1961 Italian Grand Prix in Monza. Newcomer Giancarlo Baghetti, however, with three victories in his first three Formula 1 races, including the World Cup race in Reims, forever in history.
Even the sporting decline in 1962, after the glorious year before with seven Formula 1 victories, is pure drama. Constant interventions by Enzo Ferrari’s wife Laura into the team chase Carlo Chiti’s entire management team of Scuderia to flight and leave the 26-year-old Mauro Forghieri the difficult task of technically continuing the team. Forghieri rises in a row to one of the great figures in motorsport.
While the Monoposto 156, an icon of Formula 1, designed in an irresistible manner by Fantuzzi, is a legend, the sports prototypes it also features, with their low weight and aerodynamically optimized shape, have a lasting influence on the development of two-seater racing cars in the coming years. And they celebrate successes at the Targa Florio, at the Nürburgring and at the European Mountain Championships.
This book, with many unpublished motifs by the great Bernard Cahier, paints a detailed picture of one of motor racing’s most exciting epochs and some of its greatest icons: the Ferrari 156 and its prototype brothers, the 246SP and the 196SP.
Publisher: McKlein Publishing.
Authors: Jörg-Thomas Födisch & Rainer Rossbach.
Preface: Mauro Forghieri.
Photos: Bernard Cahier.
Format: 29 x 29 cm, hardcover in slipcase, 432 pages, 75 color and 353 black and white pictures and graphics.
Languages: German & English.
€124.90 Shipping costs are additional.