24 HEURES DU MANS 1923-1992
by Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissedre & Alain Bienvenu
This 2 volume set is a tremendous
resource for model builders and racing historians as it contains
photographs of every car that competed in the 24 Hours of LeMans
from 1923 thru 1992.
PORSCHE 956-962: THE MOST
SUCCESFUL SPORTS CARS FROM WEISSACH by Ulrich Upietz
The Porsche versions 956 and 962
are the most successful racing cars in the history of Porsche
AG. For more than a decade, they dominated the various racing
series, the success speaks for itself: 5 producer and team World
Championships with 43 outstanding wins - including 6 LeMans victories,
5 driver World Championships, 4 IMSA titles with a total of 54
wins in Championship heats, including 9 victories in the long-distance
classics in Daytona and Sebring. Numerous National Championships
in Europe and Japan were achieved wholesale between 1983 and 1993.
A total of 150 racing cars were
built from the Porsche models 956 and 962. More than 600 color
photographs present an unbroken retrospective on all winners,
cars, teams and people who have witnessed this successful era,
and the text is written by a team of of international journalists
in both German and English. In the technical section of this book,
the Porsche engineers tell the story of the development of the
956/962 racing cars.
The book ends with a complete results
summary of all 956/962 versions that have ever competed. Listings
of all drivers and their participations, all customer and company
chassis as well as other statistics make this edition an indispensable
reference book.
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