Overview
The story of the mid-engined ""Sharknose"" Ferraris is one of glory and drama. Outstanding victories, such as winning the Formula 1 Championship in 1961 with American driver Phil Hill, are inextri-cably linked with profound tragedies - for example, the death of Wolfgang von Trips and fifteen spectators at the 1961 Italian Grand Prix in Monza. Newcomer Giancarlo Baghetti, on the other hand, is immortalized in the record books with three wins in his first three Formula 1 appearances. The team's sporting decline in 1962, after a glorious season the year before with seven Grand Prix victories, is pure drama. Cons-tant intervention in team operations by Ferrari's wife, Laura, dro-ve away the entire leadership cadre of the Scuderia, around Carlo Chiti, leaving to 26-year-old Mauro Forghieri the daunting task of running the team's technical operations. Forghieri rose to the chal-lenge and became one of the towering figures of motorsports.While the monoposto 156, an icon in the world of Formula 1 and with irresistible styling by Fantuzzi, became a legend, the sports prototypes, also drawn by Fantuzzi, with their low weight and ae-rodynamically optimised shapes, had an enduring effect on the development of two-seat race cars in the years to follow. They celebrated wins in the Targa Florio, on the Nürburgring, and in the European Hill Climb Championship. This book, with many previously unpublished images from the archives of the incomparable Bernard Cahier, paints a detailed pic-ture of one of the most exciting epochs in motorsports, and one of its greatest icons - the Ferrari 156, and its prototype siblings, the 246SP and 196SP.
Full Product Details
Author: Rainer Rossbach ,
Jörg-Thomas Födisch ,
Bernard Cahier ,
Mauro Forghieri
Publisher: McKlein Media GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint: McKlein Media GmbH & Co. KG
Dimensions:
Width: 29.00cm
, Height: 4.20cm
, Length: 29.00cm
ISBN: 9783947156245
ISBN 10: 3947156243
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 22 November 2019
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
You can go to pretty much any page in this excellent book and pluck from it a paragraph to analyze. Whether it be raw facts that constitute the proverbial dots in the universe of the knowable or the interpretation of facts (the connecting of the dots), this book offers both, in spades and in such fully fleshed-out prose that you'll not want to put the book down.--Sabu Advani SpeedReaders.info (4/15/2021 12:00:00 AM) This book has many previously unpublished images from the archives of the incomparable Bernard Cahier, one of the leading visual chroniclers of the age. Along with the text, the result is a detailed picture of one of the most exciting epochs in motorsports, and of a trio of its greatest icons--the Ferrari 156, and its two worthwhile sports prototype siblings, the 246 SP and 196 SP.-- Cavallino (2/10/2021 12:00:00 AM)
This book has many previously unpublished images from the archives of the incomparable Bernard Cahier, one of the leading visual chroniclers of the age. Along with the text, the result is a detailed picture of one of the most exciting epochs in motorsports, and of a trio of its greatest icons--the Ferrari 156, and its two worthwhile sports prototype siblings, the 246 SP and 196 SP.-- Cavallino (2/10/2021 12:00:00 AM)
This book has many previously unpublished images from the archives of the incomparable Bernard Cahier, one of the leading visual chroniclers of the age. Along with the text, the result is a detailed picture of one of the most exciting epochs in motorsports, and of a trio of its greatest icons--the Ferrari 156, and its two worthwhile sports prototype siblings, the 246 SP and 196 SP. -- (02/10/2021)
