USRRC A RECORD OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP 1963-1968 by Mike Martin * SIGNED * Book New

Description

The history of the 1960s
USRRC
professional motor racing series.
This book is titled:
"
USRRC - A Record of the United States Road Racing Championship - 1963-1968
" written by
Mike Martin
with a Forword by
George Follmer.
This book comes in its' original dust jacket, and publisher's box!
Hardbound, 344 pages, with
over 400
color (colour) and black/white photos.
*
This book is
special
, in that it was
hand-signed
on the title page by the author,
Mike Martin
.
This is the definitive history of the
Sports Car Club Of America's  - USRRC
professional race series, from 1963 through 1968.   Included is a review, (with photos and detailed results), for each race, year-by-year.
Interestingly, the annual
USRRC
race series was actually two championships in one.
The primary championship was for drivers of the hottest sports racing cars of the day, i.e.:
Chaparral
-
McLaren
-
Porsche
-
Lola T70
-
Ford GT40
- etc....
The second championship was for the manufacturers of production sports cars like the:
Alfa Romeo TZ
-
Shelby Cobra
-
Corvette
-
Ferrari
-
Jaguar E-type
-
Lotus Cortina
- etc...
The annual
USRRC
driver champions were:
1963 -
Bob Holbert
1964 -
Jim Hall
1965 -
Jim Hall (O2 class) and George Follmer (U2 class)
1966 -
Charlie Parsons
1967 & 1968 -
Mark Donohue
This book was a labor of love for the author.   It took him over 20 years to research and write this important history.
Informatively, 1,000 books were produced, with only 900 available for sale!
This limited edition was privately published in 2014 by the author's publishing business, Dead Pedal Press in Seattle, Washington.
This book, and original non-price clipped dust jacket, is
in nice New condition
, with some rubbing on the publisher's box.
* Please look at my other auctions this week for other desirable automobile, motoring & motor racing
books .