The Bahamas Speed Weeks. Revised Edition Including The Revival Meetings

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This is a new edition with about 300 additional images and coverage of the recent Revival events in 2011 and 2012. Throughout the period of the Speed Weeks the races were predominantly for sports cars, though there were motor cycle races in 1954, powerboat races in 1956, Karts in 1960-61, and Formula Junior and Formula Vee races in the 1960s. One of the original aims of the Speed Weeks was to increase tourism in the Bahamas and fill the hotels in a slack period of the year. The extended text and detailed result tables in this revised edition are amply supported by approximately 600 photographs, including many that have not been published previously, with other supporting material such as programme covers, race badges, passes, invitations, tickets and letters dispersed throughout the book. There is also a more detailed account of the activities of the Bahamas Racing and Sports Car Club, now sadly defunct, and the Formula Vee races organized by "Red" Crise and held in 1947 on the island of Grand Bahama.