CLIFF ALLISON FROM THE FELLS TO FERRARI THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY OF

Acknowledgements
Foreword by Dan Gurney
Introduction

1. Early days – and horses
2. How the racing began
3. Enter Colin Chapman
4. Grand Prix racing at last
5. 1959: the move to Ferrari
6. The final two seasons

Appendix Cliff Allison’s racing career
Index

Features

• One of the early young British drivers after the War.
• Cut his teeth in the tough races for 500cc Formula 3
• Fought his way through the early days of Lotus
• First driver to score World Championship points for Lotus.
• As competent in sports cars as grand prix cars.
• Winner of the Index of Performance at Le Mans in a Lotus Eleven.
• Ferrari team mate of Tony Brooks, Dan Gurney and Phil Hill.
Description

This book is the biography of Cliff Allison who started motor racing over fifty years ago with a little Cooper 500. Very much a countryman at heart Allison was not one of the party-going racing drivers but a driver with a huge ambition to race in Formula 1. With 100 photos, full history and complete race results this is a fascinating piece of motor sport history.
Synopsis

This book is the biography of Cliff Allison who started motor racing over fifty years ago with a little Cooper 500. Very much a countryman at heart Allison was not one of the party-going racing drivers but a driver with a huge ambition to race in Formula 1. He and Graham Hill competed in the first grand prix race for Colin Chapman’s Lotus team in 1958 and scored the first world championship points for Lotus. He later joined Ferrari and won the Argentine 1000kms sports car race with American co-driver Phil Hill as well as being a member of the Ferrari grand prix team in 1959 and 1960. Cliff Allison can also claim victories in many sports car events including winning the Index of Performance at Le Mans in 1957 with a 750cc Lotus Eleven-Climax.
His retired from racing following an accident whilst driving a Lotus-Climax in practice for the Belgian GP at Spa in 1961.