Motorcycle Racing

Very numerous b&w photo illustrations, with a few later pictures in colour, appendix giving World Championship race results and championship placings from 1949 to 1977, index, 153 pp, yellow boards in d/w, spine of d/w sunned and small tear to top of spine of d/w neatly repaired, otherwise in very good condition, Hamlyn 1978

24.6 x 18.1 cm, 760g, ISBN 0 60038 304 0

See below the description from the dustwrapper flap.

Long out of print.

Having now seen modern sidecar outfits trying hard on a circuit (at the Members’ Meeting at Goodwood in 2024), I have the highest regard for the riders and their passengers.  Despite only having 600cc engines, they lapped within three seconds of the outright circuit lap record, held by a 6-litre Lola 70 . . .