A few days ago a longtime racing friend sent me an email asking if I’d seen Chris Willes’s book “Developing a Champion: The Electramotive Nissan GTP Story”?
https://www.chriswil...gNQICAIc3QRkO6w
These days professionally I’m very removed from the business, so had no idea of the books publishing.
Anybody here read it and have an opinion?
Yes! I have it and am very impressed: it's well-written and full of recollections from Don Devendorf, John Knepp and the drivers too. It has a technical slant (obvious, given the author's technical role on the team), and that in itself is most welcome. Overall it's a great read, and has MANY photos which I'd never seen before, plus an equally detailed nuts & bolts aspect. And it also covers the early years of Electramotive in GTU/GTO etc in similarly readable, technical depth.
So rest assured, it's not a Starkey book. For me it's one of the most enjoyable reads I've had in a long time, and I'm trying to take it slowly just to make sure I take it all in!
My only gripe: the dust cover keeps falling off! So I've removed it for now and will refit it when the book goes into the book case. If it ever does.