Montlhery : The Story of the Paris Autodrome

by Boddy, William 'Bill'

• ISBN13: 9781845840525
• ISBN10: 1845840526
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-01
• Publisher: Motorbooks Intl

Summary

Updated from original Montagu Motor Books edition this is the only English language history of the extremely historic Paris Autodrome, the banked circuit at Montlheacute;ry was used for innumerable record bids and important races. Written by that doyen of motor sport journalism, Bill Boddy, the book has a foreword by famous racing driver and record-breaker the late George Eyston, OBE.

Author Biography

William ‘Bill’ Boddy was with Brooklands Track & Air magazine for two and half years from 1931 and the Editor of MotorSport magazine from 1934 for some 50 years. Bill has also written for aviation magazines and was employed by MAP at Farnborough for duration of WW2, on Air Publications. Bill is still a regular contributor to MotorSport and has written five books about motor racing.

Table of Contents

Publisher's note	p. 4
Preface	p. 5
Introduction to this Classic Reprint	p. 8
Original Introduction	p. 8
Acknowledgements	p. 15
Autodrome de Linas-Montlhery	p. 16
1924: the opening season	p. 18
1925: the Grand Prix comes to Montlhery	p. 24
1926: twenty-four hours at a hundred	p. 43
1927: the year of the Voisin	p. 50
1928: a mixed bag of record-breakers	p. 62
1929: Mrs Bruce returns to the attack	p. 67
1930: Gwenda Stewart and the Derby-Miller	p. 73
1931: George Eyston 's remarkable vanishing act	p. 79
1932: two miles a minute on 750cc	p. 97
1933: the Maserati-Alfa-Romeo duel	p. 110
1934: the Napier-Railton goes over the wall	p. 127
1935: the revenge of Mercedes-Benz	p. 138
1936: the Grand Prix of the sports cars	p. 144
1937: Bugatti scoops the pool	p. 154
1938-39: the end of an era	p. 161
1947-53: Montlhery redivivus	p. 165
1954 to the closure of Montlhery	p. 187
Two leading personalities	p. 211
An update	p. 219
Index	p. 225
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