
Derek Bell - My Racing Life
Evro Publishing
Published on 20. November 2014
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-9928209-9-2 (ISBN)
Description
Derek Bell has become one of motor racing's 'national treasures'. He is best known as one of the world's finest ever endurance sports car drivers, winning Le Mans five times and the Daytona 24 Hours three times, as well as numerous other significant sports car races. This completely new and updated edition of his autobiography celebrates the superb motor racing career of one of Britain's most popular racing drivers. Derek Bell is one of the survivors from 1960's motorsport, who made a real name for himself in Endurance Racing for over a twenty years driving primarily for Porsche but also other top teams from the late 1960's through to the 1990's. A multiple winner at Le Mans and Daytona this book takes you through the details of his life racing around the world from his early years leading up to F1 and then in to Endurance Racing and other branches of the sport. It shows the vast difference in Motorsport in his early career and how motorsport has progressed through the years.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sherborne
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Colour & mono throughout
Dimensions
Height: 287 mm
Width: 233 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
1401 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9928209-9-2 (9780992820992)
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Persons
Derek Bell wrote this book in collaboration with the late Alan Henry, one of motorsport's most respected journalists, and a long-time editor of Autocourse. Bell lives in Florida.