As an enthusiastic newcomer to the world of motor racing, photographer Rainer W. Schlegelmilch spent the sixties pursuing the sport's leading drivers with his camera - immortal idols such as Jim Clark and Graham Hill, Jacky Ickx and Jackie Stewart. His black-and-white studies of their faces, in those days still visible beneath open-fronted helmets, capture a gripping array of emotions, ranging from concentration and determined will to win, to anger and bitter disappointment. The portraits, snapshots and dramatic action pictures of these racetrack heroes offer a fascinating and comprehensive insight into the motorracing scene of the 1960s at the Nurburgring, Le Mans, Monaco, Silverstone... Large-format photographs around the racetrack, together with numerous illustrations of the state-of-the-art engines of the day, make the book a perfect pictorial record of the remarkable "Golden Sixties." The introductory texts accompanying the chapter on each driver, and the captions to the illustrations, are written by Harmut Lehbrink, the well-known motor-racing author. With over 500 illustrations.
