BRM Vol. 1 Front-engined cars 1945-1960

de Doug Nye et Tony Rudd, MRP Publishing 2003, 432 pages 21.5 x 27 cm, couverture rigide sous jaquette, 411 photos couleur et NB, texte anglais.

An award-winning book having been described as the most detailed and authoritative history of a grand prix team ever published, this first volume of a planned four-volume set covers BRM’s tortured birth, the complexities of the troublesome V16 cars and their replacement with the 4-cylinder 2.5-litre cars of the 1950s. The team’s creator Raymond Mays, its great benefactor Alfred Owen and BRM drivers of the calibre of Moss, Fangio, Brooks and Gonzales figure prominently in this remarkable saga, for which the authors have had access to and permission to reproduce documents from the company’s private archive.