Modern GT Racing: Today's Fastest Cars on the World's Greatest Tracks

Friedman, Dave

ISBN 10: 076032669X / ISBN 13: 9780760326695

Published by Motorbooks Intl, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modern GT Racing: Today's Fastest Cars on the World's Greatest Tracks
• Publisher: Motorbooks Intl
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076032669X
• ISBN 13: 9780760326695
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Modern GT race cars are some of the fastest, most exciting race cars this side of a Formula 1 track?an amazing variety of full-race versions of the world’s most iconic production cars from Ferrari, Maserati, Aston Martin, Corvette, and Porsche. This book takes you to the world’s most famous racetracks, where these fantastic machines face off: places like Le Mans, Sebring, Daytona, Road America, Laguna Seca and more. Author and photographer Dave Friedman covers the truly impressive range of classes, cars, drivers (including NASCAR great Dale Earnhardt Jr. in a Corvette GT car), and venues represented by GT racing. Friedman also offers a look at select historical GT cars and links the lineage of these rare vehicles of the 50s, 60s, and 70s with today’s top cars.

 

About the Author

Author/photographer Dave Friedman has spent the past 40-plus years chasing race cars all around the globe. He is the author of several Motorbooks titles, such as Cobra: The Shelby American Original Archives 1962–1965; Trans-Am: The Pony Car Wars 1966–1972; and Pro Sports Car Racing in America 1958–1974. On the rare occasion that he is home, he resides in Newport Beach, California.