Motorsports Mavericks
Daring Drivers, Brilliant Designers, and Milestone Events That Reshaped F1, Indy, NASCAR, Le Mans and More
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Published:10th Sep '26
Should be back in stock very soon
Motorsport’s most thrilling and perilous era, brought to life with expert narration, exclusive interviews, and Pete Biro's spectacular photography.
In the 1960s and ’70s, every form of racing demanded courage in the face of disproportionate risk. In Motorsports Mavericks, the award-winning team of photographer Pete Biro and racing historian George Levy brings us the rise and fall of this “Golden Age” of motorsports through the insights and analysis of the participants themselves—putting us in the same room with history’s greatest racing legends. Pete Biro’s unforgettable photography, much of it unpublished or long unseen, conveys the speed, danger, and glory in vivid detail.
It was a time of:
- Extremes – Top speeds spiked, risk soared, and racing's popularity exploded.
- Legends – AJ Foyt, Dan Gurney, Don Garlits, Richard Petty, Mario Andretti, Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda, Derek Bell, and more became household names piloting all manner of race cars in series including Formula 1, NASCAR, drag racing, Indy 500, and sports prototypes.
- Innovation – Bold experimentation prevailed, led by designers, engineers, and team owners like Enzo Ferrari, Colin Chapman, Jim Hall, and Robin Herd. Racers were as much test pilots as competitors.
It was a window in time that would open and just as certainly close. Racing will never be—can never be—like that again.
Featuring a foreword by auto racing icon Roger Penske, Motorsports Mavericks is a visual feast and an insightful, wistful, occasionally humorous look at that golden-and-simultaneously-fraught age when all race drivers courted danger with little in the way of a safety net. Whether you’re an F1 enthusiast, a NASCAR fan, or just love motorsport, this book offers an exhilarating ride.
"...equal parts history, tribute and visual celebration. The real star, however, is the photography. The late Pete Biro spent decades documenting virtually every corner of the sport...Biro’s photos transport the reader to an era when racing felt raw, dangerous and wonderfully human."
-- Benjamin Shahrabani * Sports Car Market *"George Levy writes with a confidence and fluency you can only get from deep immersion. He’s too much of a pro to gush about his subjects, but you can guess it was an effort not to do so. There’s not a page in this wonderful book that fails to delight. You’re already hooked by the time you’ve read the dust jacket...you need to buy this book—it’s a keeper, a delight, and guaranteed to make you smile."
-- John Alston * Speedreaders *"Just read the title and sub-title to this book, the identities of its authors, and the fact that the foreword is by The Captain – Roger Penske – and it tells you everything you need to know..the beauty is that you can gorge it all in one go and then keep going back, or dip in and out, delving into self-contained chapters with provocative headings such as The Speed Kings; The Innovators; The Immortals; The One-Man Armies; The Pioneers; The Engineers; or Captain Fantastic."
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* GrandPrixPlISBN: 9780760399057
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 1379g
240 pages