Graham Robson

Lancia Stratos (eBook, ePUB)

Rally Giants

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the birth, development and rallying career of the Lancia Stratos, Europe's very first purpose-built rally car, in the mid/late 1970s, providing a compact and authoritative history of where, when and how it became so important to the sport. Also tells the story of the team.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781845846336
• Artikelnr.: 53421113

Autorenporträt

Graham Robson possesses a world-wide reputation as a motoring historian, and has been close to the sport of rallying for many years. Not only as a competitor, team manager, organiser, reporter, commentator and observer, but above all as an enthusiastic historian, in more than forty years he has never lost touch with the sport. His experience of rallying is worldwide. Not only has he competed in many British and European events, but reported on marathons in South America, and acted as a travelling controller in the legendary London-Mexico World Cup rally.? As a recognised authority on many aspects of classic cars and motoring of that period, he is the most prolific of all authors, with more than 120 published books to his credit. Over the years he has owned, driven, described and competed in many of the cars featured in this Landmark Rally Cars series, and his insight into their merits is unmatched.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction & acknowledgements
Introduction
Acknowledgements
The car and the team
Inspiration
The Stratos’ importance in rallying 
The Stratos’ home ground
Facing up to rival cars
Manufacturing – meeting the rules
Engineering features
Setting the layout
Launch and development
Homologation, and running changes
Building and maintaining the works cars
Personalities and star drivers
Competition story
The Stratos’ career 
Homologation achieved
Which new cars took over, and why
The Stratos’ successor
Chequered Flag and Stratos – a long story
Four cars, one colour scheme
Stratos works rally cars – World Championship rallies (and when first used)
World/major European rally wins
Index