MRP - Biographies

	FROM DRAWING BOARD TO CHEQUERED FLAG Tony Southgate This is the autobiography of one of the world’s most famous, accomplished and versatile racing car designers, whose professional career has embraced Formula One, sports-racing and endurance racing cars and has even included an international rally challenger. In an unmatched career that spanned almost five decades of high-end motorsport, he helped to create a wide variety of state-of-the-art single-seater and sports cars for many of the prominent specialist teams, such as Lola, Brabham, Eagle, BRM, Shadow, Lotus, Arrows and Theodore, and in endurance racing he contributed to the international competition successes of major teams such as Ford, Jaguar, Toyota, Ferrari, Nissan and Audi. Cars that started their lives on Tony Southgate’s drawing board have won what is widely recognized as the ‘Triple Crown’ of motorsport – the Monaco Grand Prix, the Indianapolis 500 and the Le Mans 24 Hours. Major success on the race track came early in his career, which got him off to a great start and meant that he was always in demand. Throughout his professional life he was admired for his clear thinking and a spirit of innovation that ensured that whether they were instantly successful or not, his new designs were always interesting. This important autobiography is packed with fascinating insights into the development of racing car design and engineering during the second half of the 20th century. But it is also a very personal story, revealing that for Tony Southgate, life at the cutting edge of motorsport was always an adventure. He writes about the high-pressure demands of his job as a designer, of moments of euphoria and occasionally of great sadness, and he records many fascinating anecdotes of times spent with some of the sport’s most compelling personalities he encountered along the way during his long journey though the sport. Chapters: 1940-62: Growing up 1962-67: Making a start 1967-69: Over to the USA 1969-71: Back home at Bourne 1971-72: Breakthrough with BRM 1972-73: Creating Shadows 1974-76: More success in the USA 1976: ‘The White Tornado’ 1977: Skirts and wings 1977: A tempting offer 1977-78: Laws and orders 1979-80: A different approach 1980-82: The Teddy and Sid show 1982-83: From F1 to Group C 1983-84: The rally game 1984-85: Endurance with TWR 1986-87: Group C breakthrough 1988: Mission accomplished 1989-90: Turning to turbos 1990-91: A different culture 1991-93: Transmission troubles 1994-95: A Ferrari for IMSA 1996: Increasing Storm force 1996: Le Mans with Ferrari 1996-98: More TWR and tunnels 1998-99: Teutonic technology 1999-2000: A fitting finale Retirement: Time for reflections 240 pages * 273 x 215mm * over 250 illus * Hardback ISBN 978-1-899870-82-0 £45.00

	TO FINISH FIRST My years inside Formula One, Can-Am and Indy 500 racing with Cooper, Brabham and McLaren Phil Kerr, Foreword by Sir Jack Brabham, OBE, Final words by Bernie Ecclestone A life-long friend and former co-director of Sir Jack Brabham and Bruce McLaren reveals the inside story behind the successes and tragedies, the deals and disasters, of the Cooper, Brabham and McLaren teams during the 1960s and ’70s, a period widely recognised today as the golden years of international motor racing. This lavishly produced book fills an important gap in the history of top-level motor racing during an historic era. The author was at the centre of it all, first as Sir Jack Brabham’s right-hand man during his leadership of the Cooper team, and later when he formed his own Brabham Racing Organisation. Subsequently, when Phil Kerr joined his great friend Bruce McLaren to lead an ever expanding company and achieve unrivalled success in Can-Am racing as well as being at the forefront of Formula One, Kerr and his colleagues had to cope with the tragedy of the founder’s untimely death while testing a car at Goodwood. The author’s description of how the shattered team was saved and ultimately restored by the bravery of Bruce’s co-driver Denny Hulme, already sidelined by agonising burns to his hands, is a poignant highlight of his elegantly written manuscript of more than 120,000 words. Printed on high-quality art paper and beautifully illustrated, with a balanced mix of racing and off-duty pictures, many being seen for the first time, in addition to 15 reproductions of the paintings by the renowned artist Michael Turner, this is a handsome book offered at an attractively low price. Chapters: Bruce and I look ahead With Jack Brabham in England It gets better with Brabham Denny Hulme arrives Jack goes out on his own Brabham Racing Organisation Brabham breakthrough Jack and Denny World Champions Back to the future with Bruce The 1968 Belgian Grand Prix The Bruce and Denny Show Major deals or no deals? The Alfa Romeo experiment Tragedy Road to recovery Colour me Yardley Farewell to Can-Am Yardley McLaren success The Marlboro-Texaco deal World Champion Bernie makes his mark End of an era Full circle 384 pages * 250 x 188mm * approx 240 illus * Hardback ISBN 978-1-899870-81-3 £29.95

	BRABHAM+RALT+ HONDA: The Ron Tauranac Story Mike Lawrence, Foreword by Sir Jack Brabham OBE The story of the man behind the scenes of Jack Brabham’s World Championships, the designer of nearly all the Brabham and Ralt single-seaters and the backroom boy to Honda’s many racing successes. A quietly determined character who always insisted that his cars should do the talking. Chapters: One-way ticket; Roots and Ralts; Starting a revolution; Emerging from the shadows; Joining the establishment; The Repco connection – 1; So near, so far; The Honda connection – 1; Holding steady; The golden year; The Repco connection – 2; Double World Champions; To finish first . . . ; Towards the evening; The last days; Interlude; Ralt revived; Treading water; The Honda connection – 2; formula Ralt; Champions!; changing times; Decline and fall; Mad March days; Free agent. Appendices: Ron Tauranac’s design philosophy; The first Ralts; The MRD/Brabhams; MRD/Brabham racing record 1962-72; Freelance Tauranac designs 1973-78; The later Ralts; MRD/Ralt racing record 1975-97; The post-Ralt Tauranac cars. 288 pages * 235 x 155mm * 63 illus * Hardback ISBN 978-1-899870-35-6 £16.99

	OUT IN FRONT: The Leslie Ballamy Story Tony Russell Biography of one of the unsung heroes of the British motorsporting and high-performance motoring scenes, a prolific designer whose suspension and engine conversions were only part of a repertoire which made a huge impact on competition drivers both before and after World War Two. The letters LMB (Ballamy’s initials) were at one time as well known as MG. Chapters: The early days; The first Ballamy special; L.M.B.’s reputation spreads; Brooklands and diversification; The Bentley and the Ford V8; L.M.B. and Sydney Allard; The Type 37 Bugatti; The early LMB Ford specials; Ballamy fights his corner; L.M.B. and the war effort; The Caterham years; Epoch tales and the factory that never was; Leslie moves on; The Guildford years; LMB cars on the track; Business ventures and the new Guildford factory; The new chassis and the Debonair; Back at the works; Some thoughts on vehicle suspension; The end of one era . . . ; . . . and the beginning of another; The final years; The epilogue. 176 pages * 246 x 186mm * 215 illus * Hardback ISBN 978-1-899870-69-1 £19.99

	'HAWKEYE’: The rapid and outrageous life of the Australian racing driver Paul Hawkins Ivan McLeod Few drivers have hit the headlines quite like Paul Hawkins, whose exploits on the race track were matched by his prowess for causing social mayhem out of the car. He crashed a Formula One Lotus into the harbour of Monte Carlo, but his real forte was sports car racing, where he was a factory driver for Ford, Ferrari and Porsche all in one season. His tragic death in a fiery accident at Oulton Park robbed motor racing of one of its most colourful characters, as the author reminds us in this tribute to an unquenchable spirit and a fun-loving character. Chapters: Son of a preacher man; Up, up and away . . . ; It’s now or never; Heard it on the grapevine; Wheels of fire; Surfin’ USA; The big rock candy mountain; Sittin’ on top of the world; I’ve got to get out of this place; Everyone’s gone to the moon. Appendices: Just a thought . . . ; Paul Hawkins’ race record. 176 pages * 234 x 156mm * 40 illus * Hardback ISBN 978-1-899870-67-7 £15.99

	WORKS WONDERS: Rallying and Racing with BMC, Rootes and Chrysler Marcus Chambers, Foreword by Stuart Turner This is a top competition manager’s view of a golden age of motorsport – the Fifties and Sixties – when he was centre-stage on the international scene. It was a time when you could buy a car from a manufacturer’s catalogue, take it to a tuning shop, stick a set of numbers on the side and go racing and rallying with it. Read about the Monte Carlo, Alpine, Liège-Rome-Liège and Acropolis rallies, the London-Sydney Marathon, and the Le Mans 24-Hours and Sebring 12-Hours races, of competing against the odds and a deeply etched code of sportsmanship. An enthralling tale. Chapters: What’s it all about?; The organization; The people who made it all happen; The Le Mans 24-Hours race; The Monte Carlo Rally; The Tulip Rally; The Acropolis Rally; The Alpine Rally; the Liège-Rome-Liège Rally; The RAC Rally of Great Britain; The Portuguese and other rallies; Long-distance records; The Sebring races; Interlude; My return to motorsport; Rallying with the Tigers; The Imp’s struggle to success; Politics and problems; A Marathon finale. Appendices: BMC successes in international rallies and races, 1955-1961; BMC Competition Department policy; Liège-Sofia-Liège briefing notes; Liège-Sophia-Liège spares listing; Stelvio Pass timing notes. 320 pages * 224 x 148mm * 70 illus * Hardback ISBN 978-0-947981-94-5 £9.99