Instantanes Du Sport Automobile

Product description

Behind the avalanche of technical data, there are men and women, pilots, co-pilots, mechanics, engineers and team leaders. It is to them that this book pays a well-deserved tribute. It reveals the hidden side of motor sport, the backstage, what the spectator must not see: the misadventures, the failures, the empirical tests, the technical solutions without a future. But also the laughter, the anguish, the anger… Because there is often an anecdote, sometimes just a small detail that transforms a banal situation into a catastrophe or a laughing matter. A way of reliving that blessed era of the 1970s and 1980s when everything, or almost everything, was possible and achievable with bits of string and a little imagination…