Hillclimbing Sprinting

Hillclimbing & Sprinting is one of the most popular ways of getting into UK motorsport. Over 400 such events take place each year. This book shows competitors how to get started, how to improve and how to drive the top courses, with extensive information on this sport.

Hillclimbing & Sprinting are collectively known as Speed Eventing. This is one of the most popular ways of getting into UK motor sport. The events are accessible, straightforward & inexpensive, yet are held in an informal, friendly but competitive atmosphere. Some 400 such events take place in the UK each year, with on average more than 100 competitors in each. This book shows competitors how to get started and how to improve their skills, together with where to find the events and detailed driving advice on the top courses. There's even advice on trailers -- do you need one? The authors have interviewed a wide range of drivers, from the Clubman who drives to and from events, through mid-range competitors, including a lady, a disabled driver and an octogenarian, right up to the current hillclimb champion, as well as some of the many officials who make this sport possible. A veritable gold mine of information.

The full history of the Sunbeam Alpine, including its design and racing history.

Total Sports is the ultimate guide to the world's sports, from the best-known to the most obscure. Total Sports showcases the different sports by grouping them into categories, such as team sports, target sports, and athletics. Dynamic photography brings the subject to life, and works together with clear explanations and artworks to describe fields of play, equipment and clothing, teams and players, rules and tactics, key techniques, and common terms. Total Sports outlines the geographical range, history, and major competitions for each sport. Fact boxes highlight key information including star profiles, record-breakers, and top tens, as well as the weirdest facts, bizarrest moments, and sport's most colorful characters. A special section on the Olympic and Paralympic Games, looks at their history, from the early Greek games right up to the present day. All 33 Olympic sports are clearly identified and explained on the spreads, making Total Sports the must-have title for sports aficionados everywhere.

A guide for novice cyclists offers tips on choosing the right equipment, presents different techniques for riding on paved roads or dirt trails, and provides information on improving skill.

Developing Endurance is the definitive resource for developing aerobic training and strength and conditioning training programs to optimize performance for endurance sports, including running, cycling, swimming, triathlon, and obstacle course racing.

This book analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a European and, increasingly, a world cycling competition. This study provides interdisciplinary and varied perspectives on the sporting, cultural, social, economic and political significance of the Tour within and outside France, giving a comprehensive and authoritative investigation of up-to-the minute thinking on what the Tour means, now and in the past, to competitors, to France, to the French public, to the cultural history of sport, and the sport of cycling itself.