Chas Parker – författare

By the start of the 1980s, the Brands Hatch motor racing circuit in Kent had become firmly established as one of the world''s classic tracks. It had grown from humble beginnings as a motor cycle grass track to become an internationally renowned facility, hosting top-class motor sport. During the following decade, under the stewardship of its entrepreneurial managing director, John Webb, this enviable position was reinforced, with the circuit hosting five consecutive Grands Prix, two at very short notice, from 1982-86, along with a host of other major international meetings as well as smaller, club events. Chas Parker spent many years visiting the track, and amassed an impressive collection of thousands of colour transparencies, the majority of which are previously unpublished. This book picks up where his previous volume, Motor Racing at Brands Hatch in the Seventies, left off. It offers a very personal account of visits to the world''s busiest motor racing circuit during a decade of excitement and change, both on and off track, in the form of a scrapbook using the author''s own photographs, taken as an ordinary spectator from the public enclosures.

During the 1970s, Brands Hatch was the busiest motor racing circuit in the world. Using previously unpublished photographs and accounts of events, this book provides a personal view of activities and changes at the track during its heyday and paints an affectionate picture of motor racing at its very best.

The former wartime airfield at Silverstone is Britain’s mostimportant motor racing circuit, best known as the home of the British GrandPrix and where the first Formula 1 World Championship race was staged in 1950.This magnificent book, originally published in 2013 and now comprehensivelyupdated in this second edition with 64 extra pages, tells Silverstone’s entirehistory, covering the great races, influential characters and unforgettableevents, as well as the evolution of the circuit itself. The book is profuselyillustrated, including plenty of great photographs that have rarely beenpublished. Produced with the full assistance of the British Racing Drivers’Club (BRDC) and Silverstone Circuits Ltd, this is the last word on the historyof the much-loved home of British motor racing, from its beginnings in theaftermath of the Second World War to its status now as a world-class motorsportvenue.