The Fred Opert Story

Author : Peter Hill
Publisher : Veloce Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781787115651
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fred Opert Story written by Peter Hill and published by Veloce Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The engaging story of Fred Opert, whose brief time in a New York jail led him into a roller-coaster life of automobiles and motorsport. The author takes you into Opert's world of spotting talent in both drivers and crew members: 20 future F1 drivers who drove for Opert on their way to F1, and future team owners like Barry Green and Dick Bennetts of WSR who cut their teeth with Opert. Read their stories and the adventures they had with this larger than life character, through to the tribulations of managing the ATS F1 team. Then the tragedy that turned him away from the sport after he was lured back to run a team, only to have his driver and friend, Olivier Chandon, killed during testing. Peter Hill met Fred Opert in the 1970s during Opert's championship winning years with Keke Rosberg. He has interviewed at length most of Opert's drivers, including Keke Rosberg, Alan Jones, Brian Redman and Bobby Rahal. He has written this biography with the co-operation of Opert's family, friends and ex-employees.

Author : Christopher Hilton
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1845842170
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Toleman Story written by Christopher Hilton and published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toleman was the team that took Ayrton Senna into Formula 1, to which he responded by creating a masterpiece of movement at Monaco. This was the team that launched Derek Warwick. This was the team that brought Rory Byrne, Ferrari's design genius, to sudden prominence. This book presents the story of Toleman.

Author : Yefim Gordon
Publisher : Crecy Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781857803563
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tupolev TU-22/TU-22M written by Yefim Gordon and published by Crecy Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tupolev Tu-22 Blinder and Tu-22M Backfire led the Soviet Union's supersonic bomber air force from the 1960s, although the two aircraft were very different. The Tu-22—nicknamed Blinder by NATO—was the pioneering supersonic bomber in the USSR, entering production in 1960. The first Tu-22B aircraft entered Soviet service in 1962 and the aircraft continued into production until 1969 through several variants, including reconnaissance and electronic warfare versions. The aircraft was a mixed success as its performance compared unfavorably the Tu-16. It was also sold abroad to Libya and Iraq. The Tu-22M Backfire was developed by Tupolev during the 1960s when the Tu-22's shortcomings became apparent. The variable-geometry wings in the new design improved performance considerably and the new aircraft entered service in 1972 in the strategic bomber role and it was used in this capacity in the 1979–1989 war against Afghanistan. Yefim's Gordon's unparalleled access to information on Russian aviation makes this the most complete book published on this fascinating aircraft.

Author : Allan Moffat
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1760639370
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climbing the Mountain written by Allan Moffat and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allan Moffat is one of the legends of Australian motor sport. His extraordinary driving career, which lasted from the mid-1960s to the late 1980s, coincided with the heyday of touring car racing. His achievements included 32 Australian Touring Car wins, four of them at Bathurst, and four Championships. His Trans Am Mustang, surely the definitive racing touring car of all time, claimed more than 100 victories. But Moffat's impact went well beyond the winner's podium. He brought a new level of business professionalism to motor racing, pioneering the use of sponsorship in a way that would change the sport forever. Moffat, intense, reserved and driven, has been known as a man of few words. For years motor-sport fans have wanted to hear his story, and now Allan is telling it for the first time. His book is the compelling account of a young Canadian who moved to Australia with his family as a boy and became one of our greatest racing drivers. It's a tale of the epic rivalry with Peter Brock, which surprisingly culminated in a driving partnership and huge mutual respect, and it's about nostalgia for the glory days of motor sport in this country, when the concept of Holden versus Ford really did divide the nation, and when Mount Panorama was the true Mecca for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Australians. Filled with intense rivalries, huge egos, on-course stories and incidents, and all against the backdrop of our motor sport history over more than forty years, this is THE book for all fans of Australian motor racing.

Author : Peter Higham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910505625
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formula 1 Car by Car 1990-99 written by Peter Higham and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formative years of the 1950s are explored in this fourth installment of Evro's decade-by-decade series covering all Formula 1 cars and teams. When the World Championship was first held in 1950, red Italian cars predominated, from Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and Maserati, and continued to do so for much of the period. But by the time the decade closed, green British cars were in their ascendancy, first Vanwall and then rear-engined Cooper playing the starring roles, and BRM and Lotus having walk-on parts. As for drivers, one stood out above the others, Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio, becoming World Champion five times. Much of the fascination of this era also lies in its numerous privateers and also-rans, all of which receive their due coverage in this complete work. Year-by-year treatment covers each season in fascinating depth, running through the teams -- and their various cars -- in order of importance. Alfa Romeo's supercharged 11/2-litre cars dominated the first two years, with titles won by Giuseppe Farina (1950) and Fangio (1951). The new marque of Ferrari steamrollered the opposition in two seasons run to Formula 2 rules (1952-53), Alberto Ascari becoming champion both times, and the same manufacturer took two more crowns with Fangio (1956) and Mike Hawthorn (1958). Maserati's fabulous 250F, the decade's most significant racing car, propelled Fangio to two more of his five championships (1954 and 1957). German manufacturer Mercedes-Benz stepped briefly into Formula 1 (1954-55) and won almost everything with Fangio and up-and-coming Stirling Moss. Green finally beat red when the Vanwalls, driven by Moss and Tony Brooks, won the inaugural constructors' title (1958). Then along came Cooper, rear-engine pioneers, to signpost Formula 1's future when Jack Brabham became World Champion (1959).

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jared N. Day
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231114035
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Castles written by Jared N. Day and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first comprehensive investigation of the role of landlords in shaping the urban landscapes of today, Jared Day explores the unique case of New York City from the close of the nineteenth century through the World War II era. During this period, tenement landlords were responsible for designing and shaping America's urban landscapes, building housing for the city's ever-growing industrial workforce. Fueled by the illusion of easy money, entrepreneurs managed their buildings in ways that punished compassion and rewarded neglect--and created some of the most haunting images of urban squalor in American history. Urban Castles mines a previously uninvestigated body of tenant and landlord newspapers, journals, and real estate records to understand how tenement landlords operated in an era before tenant rights developed into a central issue for urban reformers. Day contends that--perhaps more than any other group of property owners--urban landlords stood upon the very fault lines of class, ethnicity, and race. In contrast to many urban histories set in executive boardrooms and state houses, and which chronicle struggles between large corporations, government officials, and organized labor, this fascinating work deals with the more chaotic world of small-scale entrepreneurs and their frequently antagonistic relationships with their customers--working-class tenants. Urban Castles is a richly informative chronicle of the dark underbelly of America's emerging welfare state. The neglected side of this important story covered by Day's research says much about the sea changes in landlord-tenant relations and urban policy today.

Author : Robert Mnookin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416583646
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bargaining with the Devil written by Robert Mnookin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of negotiation—from one of the country’s most eminent practitioners and the Chair of the Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. One of the country’s most eminent practitioners of the art and science of negotiation offers practical advice for the most challenging conflicts—when you are facing an adversary you don’t trust, who may harm you, or who you may even feel is evil. This lively, informative, emotionally compelling book identifies the tools one needs to make wise decisions about life’s most challenging conflicts.

Author : Alexander Winchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genealogy of the Family of Winchell in America written by Alexander Winchell and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Winchell and his family emigrated from England to Watertown, Massachusetts in 1631. He was joined later by his father, Thomas, and three brothers, Humphrey, John and Robert (d.1669). Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin and elsewhere.

Author : Dennis Gorodji
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1845842219
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nissan GT-R Supercar written by Dennis Gorodji and published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cars.