| The Last Road Race: The 1957 Pescara Grand Prix | 
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Category: Book
Author: Richard Williams
Publisher: Phoenix
Studio: Phoenix
Manufacturer: Phoenix
Label: Phoenix
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 152
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0753818515
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.720945
EAN: 9780753818510
ASIN: 0753818515
Publication Date: March 1, 2005
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Product Description
A riveting account of the 1957 Pescara Grand Prix, which marked the end of the heroic age of motor racing.
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WHEN RACING DRIVERS MATTERED..... February 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Richard Williams has done a masterful job of re-creating what I call "period-feel" in his splendid little book "The Last Road Race." What he actually does in the early-mid chapters is to examine the personalities of the key drivers who found themselves at Pescara in 1957 and how their driving careers started and evolved up to that point. He inserts characters such as legendary motor racing correspondent Denis Jenkinson, photographers Bernard Cahier and Michael Tee and plenty of local Italian officials into his account to give the reader a "you are there" sensation as the story unfolds and you begin to approach race day. Williams is not afraid to fast-forward in time to draw somewhat unflattering comparisons between what real racing meant back then in contrast to to the technology and money dominated, track-safety conscious Schumacher-era of today. At one point, Williams confuses the name of the Casablanca circuit (Ain Diab) with that of the pre-war Tripoli circuit of Mellaha but there are otherwise few obvious factual errors which would detract from this book. This is a truly good yarn about a watershed time in motorsport history and it is at its most evocative when Williams draws out the driver's personalities, often through long direct quotes of what they said about their friends, rivals, and themselves in the dangerous yet chivalrous world of late 1950's Grand Prix road racing. I can only hope that Williams and other authors like him will be further motivated to research other pivotal moments in motor racing history and to bring them to life as adroitly as he has done in "The Last Road Race."
Grand Prix cars along a country road... January 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
From the color tinted black & white photo on the cover, the most evocative photo of Grand Prix racing in the 1950's that I've ever seen, to the Published Sources in the final pages; this small book is a treasure of personal reminisces, photographs by a great photojournalist, Bernard Cahier, and a detailed recreation of that special weekend of actual road racing through hills and villages surrounding Pescara, Italy. Truly, reading this little gem will transport you back to that time and that place; better put in your order quickly, I think I hear Musso's Ferrari coming up the long waterfront straight....
The Golden Era of Racing August 17, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Richard Williams does a masterful, succient job with retelling the story of the last F-1 race at Pescara won by Sir Stirling Moss. He adequately covers all the key players and give just enough background about each, both on and off the track, to make the read interested in the unfolding story. Appreciated the smallness of the book since it is much easier to handle and read late at night as compared to those monstrous coffee table books. I'd like to see Williams do some more similarly sized books on either races of the era, perhaps covering the Monaco GP during the 1960sk
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