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An explosive new book exploring Germany’s proud motor-racing legacy, producing world-famous names such as Porsche alongside spectacular drivers including the legendary Michael Schumacher. In these pages Porsche accelerates from plucky underdog to dominant power with its 917, ‘Turbo-Panzer’ of the Can-Am series, and 956 and 962 endurance racers. Mercedes-Benz teams Juan Fangio with Stirling Moss in the 1950s to sweep both Formula 1 and sports-car classics.
Karl Ludvigsen’s dramatic telling of the German saga brings to life the great tracks, the Avus and the Nürburgring, and the cars that raced for Germany from BMW, Adler and DKW to Veritas, Audi and Borgward. The glistening silver centrepiece of this unique tribute to Germany’s racing cars and drivers is the decade of the 1930s, when the Third Reich controversially backed motor sports to flaunt its skill and power. With its historic contests and sensational racing cars that coruscating decade is still classed as motor racing’s Golden Age.

This is one book that is certain to have motor racing experts and fans thoroughly exhilarated, enticed and eager for the next instalment!