Motor Racing at Brands Hatch in the eighties By Chas Parker

During the 1980s, Brands Hatch was the busiest motor racing circuit in the world. Using previously unpublished photographs and accounts of events, Motor Racing at Brands Hatch in the Eighties provides a personal view of activities and changes at the track during its heyday and paints an affectionate picture of motor racing at its very best.

This latest book from Veloce Publishing’s Those WereThe Days … series picks up where Parker’s previous volume, Motor Racing at Brands Hatch in the Seventies, left off. It offers a very personal account of visits to the world’s busiest motor racing circuit during a decade of excitement and change, both on and off track, in the form of a scrapbook of previously unpublished photographs. This excellent little 96-page paperback book is available now from bookshops or from www.velocebooks.com.

Motor Racing at Brands Hatch in the eighties

By Chas Parker

Available now

ISBN 9781845842147

UPC 636847042141

UK £14.99, USA $29.95

BULLET POINTS

• A personal scrapbook of Brands Hatch in the 1980s

• Previously unpublished photographs of race meetings

• Personal reminiscences and anecdotes of the circuit

• Brief history of Brands Hatch during the decade covered

• Accounts of major races of the period

• Circuit map from the eighties

• Facts and figures from last Grand Prix to be held there

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

By the start of the 1980s, the Brands Hatch motor racing circuit in Kent had become firmly established as one of the world’s classic tracks. It had grown from humble beginnings as a motor cycle grass track to become an internationally renowned facility, hosting top-class motor sport. During the following decade, under the stewardship of its entrepreneurial managing director, John Webb, this enviable position was reinforced, with the circuit hosting five consecutive Grands Prix, two at very short notice, from 1982-86, along with a host of other major international meetings as well as smaller, club events.

Chas Parker spent many years visiting the track, and amassed an impressive collection of thousands of colour transparencies, the majority of which are previously unpublished.

This book picks up where his previous volume, Motor Racing at Brands Hatch in the Seventies, left off. It offers a very personal account of visits to the world’s busiest motor racing circuit during a decade of excitement and change, both on and off track, in the form of a scrapbook using the author’s own photographs, taken as an ordinary spectator from the public enclosures.

THE AUTHOR

Chas Parker is a motorsport writer who started his working life in the field of astronomy, as press officer for the Royal Greenwich Observatory. During this time he obtained a degree in mathematics and physics from the Open University. He has contributed to the Philips Encyclopaedia of Astronomy and Patrick Moore’s Yearbook of Astronomy. His main interest, however, is motor racing, and he spent many years taking photographs at Brands Hatch and amassing a collection of many thousands of colour transparencies. This is his third book about the circuit. He has spent many years working as a sub-editor for Motorsport News and also reporting on events such as the Goodwood Revival meeting and Festival of Speed.

SPECIFICATION

Paperback • 205 x 190mm • 96pages • 100 colour pictures and illustrations.

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