Product Description

This new limited edition continues to reveal, from access to factory records and key personnel, the tortured history of Britain's most emotionally charged and passionately operated Formula 1 racing team. In Volume 3 we enter the monocoque era, when Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart took BRM to grand prix victories in Monaco, Monza and Watkins Glen in the United States. There is also full coverage of the important Tasman series of races in Australasia, the last of the Le Mans Rover turbine activities and BRM's involvement in hitherto secret projects with Chrysler Corporation and the UK government. Comprehensive race results and technical specifiications augment the text of nearly 250,000 words. Having unique access to the BRM company files, the authors were able to delve deeply into the emotion-charged background to all these activities, and fortuitously Tony Rudd's invaluable input to the text had been completed prior to his sad and unforeseen death.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41621 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

About the Author
Doug Nye is the world's most respected author and researcher on the historic racing scene, while the late Tony Rudd's distinguished motor industry career included many years as BRM designer and chief engineer.

Customer Reviews

BRMs Purple Patch
Co-authored by Tony Rudd, the designer behind the cars described, this book covers some of the same ground as the section dealing with BRM in Tony Rudd's biography. (It was Fun). The layout is disappointingly orthodox and the prose nothing to write home about, I expected more engineering discussion of the sort Motor Sport used to do based around cutaway drawings. I don't think this book adds a huge amount, certainly not for the money; Tony Rudd's own book has a more liberated personal flavour to it and gives great insight into how incompetent poorly focussed management can kaibosh sound engineering, something which Rudd was able to sort out once he was given the reins. The problem I have with series like this is they seem to accredit a marque with some kind of genetic lineage recogniseable in the metal. This is nonsense. The only lineage is in the approach of the people involved, and when they come and go, the product changes. The BRMs before and after Rudd's tenure were one thing, Rudd's cars were something else.

For that reason I shan't be anticipating Vol 4 with anywhere near the same eagerness as I anticipate Tony Southgate's biography.

This book will be fantastic
As with the others in the series this will be an excellent book. I have had this book on order for a very long time. It was ordered because of the excellent price that Amazon offered - almost too good to be true. I knew the book was not published when I ordered - DEC 2007 is the latest estimate, its with the printers as I write this (Sep 2007). Amazon have cancelled my order saying the book is unavailable. They have not responded to my emails so I'm off to Chaters who put customer service first.