Car Racing 1969 Alain Pernot, Manou Zurini
Porsche Panamera Edited by Delius Klasing
Audi quattro Dirk-Michael Conradt
The fifth volume in the Car Racing series charts 1969, the year of avoiding unnecessary risk. Le Mans circuit, 14 June 1969. Into this scene, a man strides towards his destiny. Unlike his neighbors, he does not run. He walks to forestall superfluous danger. At the risk of ruining the race for his crew — and for Ford. Jacky Ickx has just said no to unnecessary risk. Three years earlier, trapped in the cockpit of his BRM, Jackie Stewart felt gasoline gushing over him. A mere spark would have spelled tragedy. From this nightmare moment onwards, the Scottish driver campaigned against dangerous circuits and imposed the first safety standards.
In 2009 an idea took shape, that had come up several times in the history of the Porsche company – the idea of a powerful four-door touring sedan with sporty genes. It would take more than 20 years before the vision was transformed into reality – with the Porsche Panamera. This is the first comprehensive book on one of the most successful Porsches, from the first ideas in the 1950s until today – to the Panamera G2, an immensely popular Porsche in many countries worldwide, whether as a sedan or the Panamera Sport Turismo.
At Audi, they are fond of recalling how a pre-production quattro left all rearwheel-drive sedans behind on an incline in wintry Austria - with summer tires! In fact, the Audi slogan “Vorsprung durch Technik” (Progress through Technology) has seldom been put into practice as tangibly as with the presentation of permanent all-wheel drive in the Audi quattro. This heavily illustrated book offers a complete chronology of the Urquattro from prototype to final model, and includes technical data and production figures. The illustrations include numerous previously unpublished images from the Audi factory archive.
9783667124517 Delius Klasing Verlag Gmbh 11.625 x 9.5in. 240pp., 300 col. April 2022 $95.00/CDN$123.50 Hardback
9783667122629 Delius Klasing Verlag Gmbh 10.625 x 11.375in. 400pp., 630 col. May 2022 $60.00/CDN$78.00 Hardback
Also available: Car Racing 1965, ISBN 9782702210963 Car Racing 1966, ISBN 9782702211014 Car Racing 1967, ISBN 9782702211113 Car Racing 1968, ISBN 9782702211236
9782702211298 Cercle d’Art 12.875 x 11in. 240pp., 12 col., 210 b.&w. May 2022 $115.00/CDN$149.50 Hardback, non-returnable English, French
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