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"A very accomplished effort." - velocetoday.com "Smith really gets his teeth in the subject as the plethora of quotes from team members confirms. A wealth of evocative photos complements the superb research." - Classic & Sports Car "Insightful quotes from insiders, racing anecdotes, charts, cutaway diagrams and plenty of good photographs make this a useful and entertaining work." - Classic Cars "Both books appear to be very well researched, with all the main people involved in the Alpine organisation represented and the use of excellent quality photos from behind the scenes, all of which really enhance this fascinating story." - Motor Sport "Congratulations to Smith for creating a worthwhile English language history of these grossly overlooked French sports-racers. Recommended." - Octane "A very accomplished effort. If only everybody spent their retirement years this productively!" - speedreaders.info "Rather than describe the story in dry prose, Roy Smith makes you feel almost like you have sat down to a long French dejeuner, fueled by a nice Bordeaux, with all the protagonists who are still alive today. There are many charming and hilarious anecdotes that really flesh out what life was like in the racing world of the 1960s. The book itself is extremely well executed, with pleasing graphic layout and a wealth of fascinating archival photos and drawings in B&W and Color. You can get lost for hours in all the photographs, as you track the gradual changes to each car, from race to race. The printing quality and paper are also very good. Definitely a great gift for the true car geek who likes comprehensive and well-illustrated books!" - automobiliac.com
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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. The cars were some of the most evocative ever seen, in the case of Alpine they had a passion and dedication for racing over a long period with stunningly beautiful, creative, slippery aerodynamic designs that allowed them to take many class wins and outright victories in championship racing, and in volume 2 ultimately under Renault ownership a victory at Le Mans, which had been its target since 1963. This story covers every race from 1963 to 1969 it includes races in the USA, and in the Far East, the Targa Florio and the prestigious Le Mans 24 hours. Le Mans and the marketing opportunities it can provide to the major car companies are vast. Victory at Le Mans is the ultimate target. Models covered: Alpine Sports Prototypes Models: M63, M63B, M64, M65, A210, A211, A220, A221 Features: * First time the full story of the Alpine Sports Prototypes in English * Tells the story of the designs of the early cars * Looks at the racing on the World sports car scene in the 1960s * Describes the efforts to get class wins at Le Mans * Examines the success and failures of the V8 cars * Shows the politics and changes in Renault, Alpine and Gordini in the 1960s * Follows the development of the Turbo engine * Features details of testing the Le Mans cars and solving the problems * Looks at the men behind the scenes and the drivers that made it happen * Many interviews and personal experiences recorded
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
This is an extremely readable book that benefits from extensive research and co-operation from all the people that were key to the success of the Alpine sports-racing cars including significant detail of individual cars and race results. Roy Smith has been given access to archive material from which he has been able to use many photographs that have not been published before.
A must have for anyone interested in Alpine, the history of the Le Mans 24 hour race and in the development of sports-racing cars.
A must have for anyone interested in Alpine, the history of the Le Mans 24 hour race and in the development of sports-racing cars.
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Packed with fine photos
11 July 2010
Roy Smith's ALPINE & RENAULT: THE SPORTS PROTOTYPES V. 1: 1963-1969 offers the first volume in a survey of the Alpine and Renault sports prototypes developed and tested as the team's first models. Interviews with those involved in competition supplement discussions of successes and failures, all packed with fine photos.
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