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[Hans Etzrodt]

Magazines or newspapers usually serve as source for detailed racing results but on a few occasions, book authors have made an extra effort to include results in their works. The publications shown here are those known to me. I left out the annuals from John Eason Gibson (1946 to 1949) or The Motor Year Books from Laurence Pomeroy & Rodney Walkerley, covering the late forties. Oh..... the ones in bold font, I consider important books.

Publication Date – Author – Book Title – Years and Sort of Racing Results

• 1906 – Charles Jarrott – Ten Years of Motors and Motor Racing – 1895-1906, major races, winners shown only.
• 1909 – Gerald Rose – A Record of Motor Racing – 1894-1908, major races only, very detailed results.
• 1910 – Gustav Braunbeck – Braunbeck’s Sport Lexikon – 1895-1909, some major events, mainly incomplete German race results.
• 1933 – Hans Stuck & Ernst Günther Burggaller – Das Autobuch – 1907-1933, some major events but mainly incomplete German race results.
• 1935 – Adolf Meurer – Der Kraftsport im neuen Deutschland – 1934, German races, mountain climbs and trials, detailed but incomplete results.
• 1937 – Alfred Schumm – Das kleine Autobuch – 1894-1936, major races, winners shown only and no exact dates.
• 1937 – George Monkhouse – Motor Races – 1936, GP & Voiturette races, place 1-3 shown only.
• 1938 – Hans Bretz – Mannschaft und Meisterschaft, Eine Bilanz der Grand-Prix-Formel 1934-1937, major races, place 1-7 shown only.
• 1938 – George Monkhouse – Motor Racing with Mercedes-Benz – 1937, Major GP races (12), place 1-3 shown only.
• 1948 – Rodney Walkerley & Robert Fellowes – Grands Prix 1934-1939, Principal GP races, place 1-4 shown only.
• 1949 – George Monkhouse – Motor Racing with Mercedes-Benz – 1934-1939, Major GP races, place 1-3 shown only.
• 1949 – Laurence Pomeroy – The Grand Prix Car, Vol. 1 – 1895-1939, Major GP races, winner shown only.
• 1950 – George Monkhouse & Roland King-Farlow – GRAND PRIX RACING Facts & Figures – 1894-1949, Majority of races, place 1-3 shown only.
• 1953 – George Monkhouse & Roland King-Farlow – GRAND PRIX RACING Facts & Figures – 1894-1952, Majority of races, place 1-3 shown only.
• 1961 – Rodney L. Walkerley – Motor Racing Facts & Figures - 1894-1960, Majority of races, place 1-3 shown only.
• 1964 – George Monkhouse & Roland King-Farlow – GRAND PRIX RACING Facts & Figures – Third revised edition – 1894-1963, Majority of races, place 1-3 shown only.
• 1961 – William Court – Power and Glory - 1894-1951, Major races, place 1-3 shown only.
• 1967 – Emanuele Alberto Carli – Settant'anni di gare automobilistiche in Italia, 1895-1966, Italian races only, place 1-3 mostly shown but complete results from 1895-1914.
• 1982 – Edmond Cohin – Historique de la Course Automobile 1881-1977 – 1894-1977, French book of all major races, detailed results are not always complete.
• 1987 – Paul Sheldon with Yves de la Gorce and Duncan Rabagliati – A Record of Grand Prix and Voiturette Racing, Vol. 1 – 1900-1925, All major races, detailed results. Followed by Vol. 2, 3, 4, and others in same style.
  
  I wonder, are there other books worth mentioning? Such I forgot? Covering the 1895-1949 years.

[petefenelon]

Originally posted by Hans Etzrodt
Magazines or newspapers usually serve as source for detailed racing results but on a few occasions, book authors have made an extra effort to include results in their works. The publications shown here are those known to me. I left out the annuals from John Eason Gibson (1946 to 1949) or The Motor Year Books from Laurence Pomeroy & Rodney Walkerley, covering the late forties. Oh..... the ones in bold font, I consider important books.

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I wonder, are there other books worth mentioning? Such I forgot? Covering the 1895-1949 years.[/list]

Peter Higham's Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing has the bare bones of a lot of results, but very little in the way of insight or analysis. It has the benefit of being one cheap volume that's handy to keep on your desk.

pete

[Vitesse2]

Beat me to it Pete! Just to complete the info it has winners only of selected races (mostly culled from Monkhouse/King-Farlow, I think), plus first six results for major pre-1950 GPs, Indianapolis and Le Mans.

[Option1]

Karl Ludvigsen's Classic Grand Prix Cars - The Front-Engined Formula 1 Era 1906-1960 has various Grand Prix results including reprints from a number of publications of the time.

The results are a long way from being comprehensive, but I had to mention it as it's one of only two historical motorsport books I own at the moment (more on the way).

Neil

[Felix Muelas]

...book authors have made an extra effort to include results in their works...

Like these, you mean? Or are these too specific of a period? Well, anyway...

1965 – TASO Mathieson – GRAND PRIX RACING 1906-1914, the ACF GPs shown only

1972 – Henry Serrano Villard – The Great Road Races 1894-1914, Winners and cars in Appendixes (author reckons that his sources for data are Rose, Jarrott, Pomeroy and Lord Montagu)

1984 – David Venables – The Racing Fifteen Hundreds - Voiturette Racing 1931-1940

1986 – Chris Nixon– Racing the Silver Arrows 1934-1939