Haynes Great Cars Series

Michael Scarlett



RRP: £25.00

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 978 1 84425 354 8



A celebration of a classically British sports car



The fabulous Morgan Plus 8 was introduced in 1968 and remained in production at the family-owned Morgan factory in Malvern for 36 years. Assembled by hand using traditional methods, the Plus 8 combined traditional British craftsmanship with muscular performance in a uniquely graceful design. It was, in many ways, the last of the traditional ‘hairy-chested’ British sports cars, combining old-fashioned styling with prodigious power.



Haynes Great Cars: Morgan Plus 8 is a beautifully produced book, chronicling the complete story of the Plus 8, will appeal to all sports car fans, as well as to Morgan owners and enthusiasts. It is a uniquely insightful look into the evolution of Morgan’s former flagship, by a journalist who has followed the development of the car ever since he conducted the very first press Road Test of the Plus 8 in 1968 for Autocar.



From the development of the first prototype and its delayed launch in 1968, to the end of production in 2004 and the introduction of the Aero 8, this book provides a detailed year-by-year account of the Morgan Plus 8 story. During its life the design remained fundamentally unchanged, although a process of gradual evolution saw a number of detailed changes The Plus 8 finally bowed out in 2004, to be replaced in the Morgan line-up by the Ford V6-engined Roadster, using many of the Plus 8’s body parts and Morgan’s traditional construction methods.



Haynes Great Cars: Morgan Plus 8 is a celebration of the Morgan Plus 8, featuring a wealth of archive and specially commissioned studio photography. The authoritatively written and gloriously illustrated text provides a unique insight into the engineering and evolution of this uniquely British sports car.



Also available in this fabulous Haynes Great Cars series are – AC Cobra, Audi quattro, Austin-Healey, Jaguar MkI/II, Jaguar E-type, Jaguar XK, Lamborghini Miura/Countach/Diablo and Murciélago, MGB, Mini and Triumph TR.



The author Michael Scarlett is a respected motoring journalist who writes for numerous newspapers and magazines, including the Daily Telegraph. After an engineering career in the aviation and motorsport industries, he joined Autocar magazine as a Road Test rookie, graduating to Technical Editor in 1976. He now works as a freelance technical writer and author and his first book was Haynes Great Cars: Porsche 911 title. He lives in Oxford.

Paul Parker



Format: Hardback, RRP: £40.00, ISBN: 978 1 84425 508 5



This book presents a fascinating and eclectic collection of nearly 400 images from one of motor racing''s most talented and original photographers. Michael Cooper always had an eye for the unusual. Now, several decades later, this magnificent book collects together his best work to present all the action and atmosphere of the races, the faces and the places.



Races - From British club and national events to sports cars and Formula 1, including numerous Grands Prix across Europe - Michael Cooper photographed it all.



Faces: From a now-departed world of friendly co-operation and easy media access, the famous and not so famous are here - drivers, team personnel, friends and an accompanying cast of unlikely people.



Places: Period scenes from circuits in Britain (including Goodwood, Silverstone, Brands Hatch and Aintree) and in Europe (including Le Mans, Spa-Francorchamps, the  Nürburgring and Monaco).



This fine collection of photographs is accompanied by insightful commentary from Paul Parker, who specialises in photographic books about motor racing, as exemplified by his ''In Camera'' titles covering sports car racing and Formula1.

Anthony Pritchard



Format: Hardback, RRP: £35.00, ISBN: 978 1 84425 414 9



Informative, analytical, comprehensive and sometimes scurrilous, this compelling compendium of significant Ferrari people is essential reading for all enthusiasts of the greatest marque in motoring and motor racing history. The heart of this book is an A-Z that presents biographies of more than 200 individuals who have made an important contribution to Ferrari''s greatness over the years. Each and every biography, from Andrea de Adamich to Ugo Zagato, is fascinating, and they all come together to create a work of enormous breadth.



Drivers form a major proportion of the coverage including Ferrari''s eight F1 World Champions like Niki Lauda and Michael Schumacher. Readers with a technical interest will be captivated by the stories of men like Mauro Forghieri and Harvey Postlethwaite. There are also names that are not readily categorised, such as Francesco Baracca (the flying ace from whom came the ''Prancing Horse'' emblem), Dino Ferrari (Enzo Ferrari''s only legitimate son) and Brenda Vernor (his PA). This book provides an exceptional and very different angle on Ferrari by one of the marque''s foremost experts. Anthony Pritchard has followed Ferrari history for over 50 years and has personally known many of the people in this book.

Christopher Hilton

Format: Hardback, RRP: £19.99, ISBN: 978 1 84425 709 6



Lewis Hamilton became the thirtieth World Champion on an agonising, confusing and dramatic afternoon at Interlagos in Brazil. As he crossed the line he joined the dynasty of World Champions which began in 1950 and contains just about every great driver. By definition, each season has a decisive race and some of these showdowns become legendary, but nothing has ever been more charged with drama than Hamilton''s last corners at Interlagos, rain falling from an angry sky and confusion everywhere.



His victory meant that the dynasty now embraced 30 champions. They came from14 countries and five continents and won their titles at 24 different circuits on every continent except Antarctica. The group of champions included the moody Giuseppe Farina, who won the first title and 5 time winner Juan Manuel Fangio. It embraced the precision of Alain Prost, the bravery of Nigel Mansell, single mindedness of Michael Schumacher and was haunted by the mysterious gifts of Jim Clark and Ayrton Senna.



This penetrating study is about all those men and each of the decisive races which gave them their championships. Completely updated from the 1992 first edition, you will meet all the champions and relive the races which made them, like Hamilton, the immortals. Author Christopher Hilton has written a number of best-selling Formula 1 books including biographies of Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna and James Hunt.