Doug Nye

If you're interested in the rise of British dominance in Formula 1 racing, you could do a lot worse than this in-depth accounting of Cooper. They were basically the first of the small British firms that Enzo Ferrari dismissed as "garagistes," and who turned inspiration, clever engineering, and sheer hard work, into something that looked like dominance in the 1960s and until the late 1970s. The less-than-hardcore may find that Nye gets lost in the weeds of accounting for each racing reason, but at least one can enjoy this book on the relative cheap (unlike Nye's books on BRM!).… (más)