The Usborne Book of Racing Cars

by Clive Gifford

Using simple language, diagrams and cutaway illustrations, this book explains the inside workings of racing cars.

Genres: Transport

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 24, 1995

About the author

Clive Gifford is a highly experienced journalist and author with over 170 books published and more than 800 features and stories written for adults and children.

Clive is an unusual author who likes to work in both fiction and non-fiction. Perhaps this reflects his unusual life which, so far, has seen him travel to over 70 countries, be held hostage in Colombia, go parachuting, coach several sports and run a computer games company.

He says: "What drives me more than anything else is the desire to communicate, entertain and inform through the written word."

Reviews

[Kevin Huot · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book is a fun factual book that shows you how cars work and what racers go through. I enjoyed this book because I am into racing myself. I would use this book to show kids that you just can't pick up something and be good at it.