Autocourse 2018 19

Autocourse 2018-19covers the Formula 1 season and its 21 Grand Prix races in great detail. Every race report is backed by practice and qualifying times, full race results and lap charts. There are specially commissioned features reflecting the key stories of the season, a team-by-team review which analyses the fortunes of the ten competing squads highlighted by the superb F1 car illustrations by Adrian Dean. Often contentious, the editor chooses his top ten drivers of the season and ranks them on the basis of their performances throughout the year. Not content with providing 320 pages of Formula 1 coverage, Autocourse 2018-19also charts the other major international motorsport categories, to include: Formula 2, GP3 and Formula 3 single seater series The World Endurance Championship (including the Le Mans 24-Hour race) The Formula E electric racing series, which is rapidly gaining support from major car manufacturers Touring car series around the world (DTM, WTCR and BTCC) Racing in North America, which details the Indy Car series (including the Indianapolis 500) and the grueling 36-race schedule of the NASCAR stock car series. At 408 pages, Autocourse 2018-19 provides the most comprehensive record of the year’s sporting action published anywhere in a single volume. It is required reading for motor sport fans the world over.

The longest running motor racing yearbook is now in its 67th year. First published in 1961, Autocourse features independent and authoritative editoria,l combined with the sport's finest photography. Whilst rivals come and go, The World's Leading Grand Prix Annual continues to be the indisputable leader in its field. Autocourse wraps up the year with the most complete results record supplied anywhere in a single volume. This lavish yearbook is essential reading for all fans of global motorsport.

The complete record of every driver to have competed in the Grand Prix World Championship since 1950.

The greatest duel in FORMULA 1 history: the 1976 season between Austrian Niki Lauda and Britain's James Hunt. As the '75 season ended, Hunt was out of FORMULA 1 racing while Lauda was world champion and the odds-on favorite for ’76 with a year’s contract ahead of him and Enzo Ferrari begging him to sign a multi-year deal. James Hunt, without a drive until Emerson Fittipaldi broke his McLaren contract, grabbed the McLaren drive with both hands and the help of friend John Hogan and Marlboro cigarettes. The result? Two drivers in an epic sixteen-race battle across the globe for the '76 title, ultimately decided by a single point. Fame, wealth, drugs, sex, and the rest of globetrotting 1970s FORMULA 1 racing are encompassed in the Lauda vs. Hunt duel. At the '76 German Grand Prix, Lauda nearly died in a fiery crash, only to emerge six weeks later, severe burns on his face and head, to pursue his rivalry with Hunt. It all came down to the last race, a rain-soaked affair in Japan, where Hunt won the championship by the slimmest possible margin. The book is a study in contrasts during an era of Brut aftershave and disco sex parties. James Hunt, legendary philanderer and FORMULA 1 rock star, versus supernatural racer Niki Lauda, who in '75 set the first sub-seven minute lap around the Ring.

The ultimate motor racing yearbook, majoring on Formula 1 and also covering Formula 2, Formula 3, Touring Cars, Sports Cars, Formula E, NASCAR, INDYCAR, plus the most comprehensive results of the sport worldwide

AUTOCOURSE, the world’s leading grand prix annual, celebrates its 69th year of publication in 2019. The 21-race Formula 1 World Championship season is covered in its usual full depth, with hugely experienced paddock insiders Tony Dodgins and Maurice Hamilton dissecting the drama and intrigue that are intrinsic parts of any F1 season. Their race commentaries are complemented by detailed results spreads, including lap charts and tyre strategies. Mercedes-Benz again proved the class of the field, with Lewis Hamilton bidding to win his sixth world championship, but they did not have it all their own way. Ferrari’s new star, Charles Leclerc, became a triple race winner, whilst erstwhile team leader Sebastian Vettel struggled to find the form that made him a four-time world champion before winning the Singapore Grand Prix. In addition, the ever-resourceful Red Bull Racing, with the exciting talent of Max Verstappen, scored dramatic victories to justify their decision to switch to Honda power. Below the top three teams, Renault sought a return to past glories while locked in battle with McLaren and Racing Point for fourth place in the constructors’ championship. Highly respected Mark Hughes looks at the technical developments behind all the competitors in his team-by-team review, enhanced by Adrian Dean’s beautiful F1 car illustrations. In addition to Formula 1, the sport’s other major categories are all afforded ample coverage. The Formula 2 and Formula 3 championships, key rungs on the professional single-seat ladder, are chronicled, as is the rise of Formula E, which is rapidly gaining considerable support from major manufacturers. In sports car racing, the all-conquering Toyota, once again, won the Le Mans 24-hour race. Also covered are the door-banging exploits of the leading touring car series – the World Touring Car Championship, DTM (German Touring Cars) and the British Touting Car Championship. From the other side of the Atlantic, Gordon Kirby provides his usual insightful analysis of the US racing scene which majors on the compelling action of the ever growing Indycar series and the gruelling 36 race NASCAR series. AUTOCOURSE provides the most comprehensive record of the year’s sporting action, complete with results, published anywhere in a single volume. It is required reading for motor sport fans the world over.

In a hugely ambitious project, Gerald Donaldson has assembled a team of specialists to record the voices of the major players on the circuit today. The voices of the drivers, their wives and girlfriends, the mechanics and engineers, the team bosses, all those involved in the tension-filled emotionally charged circus that is Formula 1 are recorded for the first time. The words of legendary figures from the past have also been recorded to create a definitive yet very personal historical record of the triumphs and disasters of over fifty years of Formula 1. Over 500 illustrations from a wealth of unusual and personal sources give a totally fresh insight into this spectacular sport.