Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Older used book still in acceptable condition. Pages in general are in great condition although tanned and marked with age. Back cover of the book has some damage which has affected the back 3 pages but they are all cover pages. 1949 copy. See images. Bargain book price reflects condition.

About the book >.>.> A number of descriptions of the races themselves have also been included but the opening section dealing with post-war racing need not be and the technical descriptions of post-war cars cannot be on the scale set out in the first volume. Detailed descriptions of races held between 1947 and 1954 would be redundant as there are a number of books and annuals in which the complete results have been set forth and the races themselves described. So far as the cars are concerned we stand too close to present events accurately to weigh varying techniques and in the case of the most successful cars of most recent dates the constructors are naturally reluctant to have full details revealed to possible rivals. But whereas in Volume One a few typical cars were described in great detail in the post-war period I have been able to describe all the principal participating models in some detail; and the reader may think that this change of emphasis is not without some worth of its own. The story of how the performance of Grand Prix cars has varied from the earliest times up to the end of 1953 has been segregated from the main text in an effort to show how an average speed index based on the 1906 Grand Prix Renault can be set up for all subsequent cars as a consequence of a continuing system of statistical analysis.