Alpine & Renault

The Sports Prototypes 1973 to 1978

Roy P Smith (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2010
Veloce (Verlag)
978-1-84584-226-0 (ISBN)

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Sports prototype racing is about endurance - for the drivers, for the teams, and for the companies involved. Under the new management at Renault, and with assistance from Elf, the state-owned French oil company, Alpine made a remarkable return to sports car racing. This title describes this with the reputations that were won and lost.

Sports prototype racing is about endurance, for the drivers, for the teams and for the companies involved. In this story we see the effort, the blood, the sweat and the tears, reputations won and lost, life and also death; in the case of Alpine, it had a passion and dedication for racing over a long period with stunningly beautiful, creative, slippery aerodynamic designs that allowed it to take many class wins and outright victories in championship racing, and ultimately the Le Mans 24 hours. You will feel the passion and dedication for racing from interviews with the men involved over the many long hard years, illustrated with dramatic period photographs.

Roy Smith is a retired company director who has a life-long passion for motorsport, and, since 1968, Alpine Renault in particular. He began writing in the 1960s for club magazines, mainly interviews with the notables of the time. A 40-year business career in sales and marketing developed an attention for detail that was required for the preparation of this work about the Alpine Sports Prototypes and his previous book about the development of the Renault Turbo Formula 1 cars He likes to provide a good read to newcomers and hardened enthusiasts alike. He has written many motor sport and Alpine-related articles since 1989 for various magazines, and is the UK historic correspondent for the French magazine Retro Passion and the Alpine Renault magazine, Mille Miles. His next work will be entitled Amedee Gordini – a true racing legend.

Sprache	englisch
Maße	250 x 250 mm
Gewicht	1492 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Auto / Motorrad
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Motor- / Rad- / Flugsport
ISBN-10	1-84584-226-X / 184584226X
ISBN-13	978-1-84584-226-0 / 9781845842260
Zustand	Neuware