Take a lap through one of Formula 1's most exciting and influential eras with F1 Mavericks, featuring the photos of veteran motorsports photographer, Pete Biro.
Take a lap through one of Formula 1's most exciting and influential eras with F1 Mavericks, featuring the photos of veteran motorsports photographer, Pete Biro.
Photographer Pete Biro began shooting motorsports in the 1950s, contributing to magazines such as Road & Track and Car and Driver. As his career progressed, his work found greater fame on the pages of outlets such as Time, LIFE, and Sports Illustrated, eventually garnering high-profile clients like the Big Three US automakers and Goodyear Tire. He followed the Can-Am series throughout its 1966 to 1974 glory years, becoming good friends with its top drivers, team owners, and engineers. After a distinguished career as a motorsports author, speaker and historian, George Levy is now President of the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America, based at Daytona Beach, Florida. He began his journalism career in 1980 at Autoweek, where he rose to editor at 27. He has also contributed to RACER, Car and Driver and Vintage Motorsport. Latterly he has turned to writing books and is best known for Can-Am 50th Anniversary: Flat Out with North America’s Greatest Race Series (2016), which earned a Gold Medal in the 2017 International Automotive Media Competition, and F1 Mavericks: The Men and Machines that Revolutionized Formula 1 Racing (2019). He lives in Ormond Beach, Florida. Mario Andretti is auto racing's definition of "Been There, Won That." His professional driving career spanned more than four decades and includes pit-stops as a Formula One driver (1978), an Indy 500 winner (1969), the Daytona 500 (1967), and four CART/USAC open-wheel racing national championships. Andretti has been called Mr. Versatile, known for driving everything from USAC sprint cars on the dirt to IndyCars, sports racing prototypes, and of course F1. He was Newman Haas Racing's first driver when the team was formed in 1982, raced there for 12 seasons, and is considered one of Paul Newman's closest friends.
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6 Introduction
9 Foreword by Mario Andretti
15 CHAPTER 1: 1958–1961 PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE
27 CHAPTER 2: 1962–1964 SIMPLIFY, THEN ADD LIGHTNESS
35 CHAPTER 3: 1965 IT WAS A VERY GOODYEAR
43 CHAPTER 4: 1966 ALL HAIL THE DRIVER-CONSTRUCTOR
67 CHAPTER 5: 1967 GAME OVER
97 CHAPTER 6: 1968–1969 WINGS OF CHANGE
121 CHAPTER 7: 1970–1971 FORWARD, MARCH
139 CHAPTER 8: 1972–1973 THE QUINTESSENTIAL F1 CAR
161 CHAPTER 9: 1974–1976 RED TEAM RISING
181 CHAPTER 10: 1977 SOMETHING FOR NOTHING
193 CHAPTER 11: 1978 MARIO’S YEAR AT LAST
207 CHAPTER 12: 1979 PARLEZ-VOUS TURBO?
213 CHAPTER 13: 1980 SUDDENLY IT’S 1962
221 CHAPTER 14: 1981–1982–? END OF AN ERA
233 Afterword by Niki Lauda 236 About the Photographer 238 Index
