CATALOGUE 2019/2020 Top-quality books by the finest authors CONTACT DETAILS WHAT THE REVIEWERS SAY SALES ENQUIRIES ABOUT EVRO’S BOOKS UK TRADE SALES/DISTRIBUTION Orca Book Services [email protected] +44 (0) 1235 465521 UK AND EUROPE SALES REPRESENTATION Star Book Sales [email protected] +44 (0) 1404 515050 NORTH AMERICAN TRADE SALES/DISTRIBUTION Quarto Publishing Group USA [email protected] John Barnard’s biography, published by Evro in June 2018, reveals a career packed with innovation, including the first carbon-fibre composite +1 860 245 5222 chassis (McLaren) and the first semi-automatic gearbox (Ferrari). EVRO PUBLISHING THE PERFECT CAR THE BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN BARNARD CHAIRMAN ‘John Barnard’s biography is an instant classic, Eric Verdon-Roe and a must-read for anyone with a passion for [email protected] +44 (0) 7831 898332 open-wheel racing... utterly absorbing.’ David Malsher, motorsport.com PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Mark Hughes JIM CLARK [email protected] THE BEST OF THE BEST +44 (0) 7769 642373 ‘The double world champion’s story — personal and sporting — is recounted in great detail and PUBLIC RELATIONS (UK) production standards, as ever with Evro, are from Eventageous PR (Rebecca Leppard) the top drawer… Essential, in a word.’ [email protected] Motor Sport +44 (0) 7749 852481 HOBBO PUBLIC RELATIONS (USA) THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DAVID HOBBS Judy Stropus [email protected] ‘The problem with most racing driver biographies +1 203 243 2438 is that they often fail to get across the personality behind the achievements. This book is the exception.’ HEAD OFFICE Classic & Sports Car Westrow House, Holwell, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 5LF BRIAN REDMAN LONDON OFFICE DARING DRIVERS, DEADLY TRACKS 6 Inkerman Terrace, Allen Street, London W8 6QX ‘Among my personal library of dozens of books by and about racing drivers and the sport we love, this is the best motorsports book I have ever read.’ Jean Jennings (leading US motorsport journalist) www.evropublishing.com www.evropublishing.com HIGHLIGHTS OF THE BOOK • The interviews, all conducted specially for this book, are with (in alphabetical order by first name) Alain Prost, Alex Zanardi, Ari Vatanen, Bobby Unser, Carlos Sainz, Damon Hill, Dario Franchitti, Derek Bell, Emanuele Pirro, Emerson Fittipaldi, Felipe Massa, Jackie Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Mario Andretti, Mika Häkkinen, Niki Lauda, Rick Mears, Sébastien Loeb and Tom Kristensen. Here are five highlights… • Dario Franchitti — The Indycar champion talks of the deaths of the friends that bookended his career in racing, the heartbreak that each caused and the aftermath of accidents that affected the physical functioning of his brain. • Niki Lauda — A racer who needs no introduction, Niki Lauda discusses the loss of one of his aircraft over Thailand in which all on board were killed; for eight months he fought to clear the name of his pilots and change aircraft safety forever. • Alain Prost — Ayrton Senna’s great rival talks of the moral Publication compass that guided his career and the slights he perceived July 2019 against him, moments that shaped the development of his reputation as a cold, manipulative and divisive character. • Ari Vatanen — The Finnish rally ace reflects on the accident that almost killed him and the depression into which he fell in convalescence, the dark recesses of his mind leading him to an unwavering belief that he had contracted AIDS. MY GREATEST DEFEAT • Alex Zanardi — In a deep and revealing conversation, the STORIES OF HARDSHIP AND HOPE FROM Paralympic gold medallist, who lost both legs in an Indycar MOTOR RACING’S FINEST HEROES accident, discusses how we decipher between our passion By Will Buxton and our ambition and how childhood dreams affect our adult decisions. My Greatest Defeat is a collection of honest and revealing insights into 20 of the greatest living racing drivers; legends of the worlds of Formula 1, Indycar, NASCAR, Le Mans and Rally. Its purpose is to discover their weakest moment, the one time in their lives when they didn’t know where to turn or what to do next. To show that beneath the fire-proof suits and the helmets and beyond the heroics displayed on track, these great modern gladiators are fallible and breakable. The legends interviewed opened up completely. Honesty flowed as rarely seen and little expected. Mighty champions, men we’ve always seen as thick-skinned, macho, manly men, unburdening their souls. These are their stories. Their words. Their truths. 336 pages • 234x156mm • 20 artwork portraits ISBN: 978-1-910505-40-3 For his first book, motor racing broadcaster, commentator and journalist Will Buxton conducted poignant interviews US $29.95 CDN $34.95 with 20 racing greats. www.evropublishing.com www.evropublishing.com HIGHLIGHTS OF THE BOOK • Early years: aftermath of the Great War, budding racing driver and Alfa Romeo employee, then emerging as shrewd businessman. • Scuderia Ferrari: his own team, first racing Alfa Romeos for wealthy clients, then ‘quasi-works’ cars, achieving considerable success through the 1930s. • Second World War: doing well from industrial production of machine tools — and surviving a contract assassination plan. • Rapid emergence of his own Ferrari marque post-war: six consecutive Mille Miglia wins from 1948; first Le Mans win in 1949; double World Champions in 1952–53. • All-round racer: at his autocratic and spectacular best through the pinnacle years in the 1950s and 1960s — then rescue by Fiat from near bankruptcy. • Advancing years: racing focuses on Formula 1 and road- car manufacture shifts from exotic boutique production to Publication significant volume. November 2019 • Final years: on top of the world with new models, and even higher personal status as Italian elder statesman and national icon. ENZO FERRARI 1898–1988 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY By Doug Nye Following Evro’s acclaimed illustrated memoirs of Brian Redman, John Surtees and Stirling Moss, the appealing format of these books — wonderful photos accompanied by insightful text — is applied to the greatest figure in 20th century motor racing. In the aftermath of the Second World War, Enzo Ferrari went into the sport with magnificent V12-engined cars and very quickly achieved unparalleled success in Formula 1 and sports car racing, and built magnificent road cars too. In this book, distinguished author Doug Nye explores the life and achievements of this enigmatic man, alongside a splendid array of photos, many not previously published. 400 pages • 280x235mm • over 250 photos, mainly colour Doug Nye has written some 70 books, a good number of them ISBN: 978-1-910505-20-5 about Ferrari. Uniquely, he is a four-times winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Montagu Trophy, awarded for ‘the greatest US $90.00 CDN $100.00 contribution to recording motoring history’. www.evropublishing.com www.evropublishing.com HIGHLIGHTS OF THE BOOK 1970–75 FORMULA 1 GREATS • The 1970 season: after troubled early development, the 72 finally took over from the long-serving 49, its four consecutive race wins enough to secure the World Championship for Jochen Rindt, posthumously after LOTUS 72 his death during practice for the Italian Grand Prix. Publication • The 1971 season: with promising youngster Emerson August 2019 Fittipaldi elevated to team leader after Rindt’s death, great things were expected of the 72’s second season but it proved to be winless. • The 1972 season: now in black and gold John Player livery, the 72 became far more competitive and Fittipaldi’s four Grand Prix victories made him World Champion. • The 1973 season: Ronnie ‘SuperSwede’ Peterson joined Fittipaldi to form a dream team and together they won seven races, but because Lotus’s spoils were divided between the two drivers Jackie Stewart was able to come through to become World Champion. • The 1974 season: still the 72 soldiered on, now as the fall-back car after its successor, the 76, failed to deliver; partnered by Jacky Ickx, Peterson won three Grands Prix. PETE LYONS • The 1975 season: well beyond its sell-by date, the 72 did a FOREWORD BY EMERSON FITTIPALDI final season but by now it was far from effective, with Ickx’s second place in the tragic Spanish Grand Prix its best result. LOTUS 72 1970–75 By Pete Lyons • Foreword by Emerson Fittipaldi This book is devoted to one of the most revered Formula 1 cars ever made. Introduced in 1970, the wedge-shaped Lotus 72 competed for six seasons, winning 20 World Championship Grands Prix, two Drivers’ titles (for Jochen Rindt in 1970 and Emerson Fittipaldi in 1972) and three Constructors’ titles (in 1970, 1972 and 1973), racing first in Lotus’s evocative red, white and gold livery, then the equally eye-catching black and gold of the John Player Special period. Pete Lyons, Autosport’s renowned Formula 1 reporter for part of the Lotus 72 era, explores the car’s entire race-by-race career in his insightful commentary accompanying a magnificent array of over 325 photos. 304 pages • 280x235mm • over 340 photos, mainly colour ISBN: 978-1-910505-33-5 California-based Pete Lyons, revered Autosport Formula 1 reporter of the 1970s, once declared the 72 ‘my favourite US $79.95 CDN $90.00 Lotus’. In this book he tells us why. www.evropublishing.com www.evropublishing.com HIGHLIGHTS OF THE BOOK • The 1940s. How the Land Rover came about; the Wilks brothers; the Centre Steer enigma; development and production; launch and reaction. • The 1950s. Rapid development and evolution of the original; successes and dead ends; worldwide reach; early expeditions; weird and wonderful modifications; the Series II. • The 1960s. Consolidation and further developments; Series IIA; military models; initial development of the Range Rover; search for a V8 engine. • The 1970s. The Series III; Range Rover’s popularity but lack of investment; Land Rover abandons US market; the British Leyland story; escape from BL and Michael Edwardes, Publication saviour of Land Rover.