Modern GT Racing - Hardcover

Author/photographer Dave Friedman has spent the past 40-plus years chasing race cars all around the globe. He is the author of several Motorbooks titles, such as Cobra: The Shelby American Original Archives 1962–1965; Trans-Am: The Pony Car Wars 1966–1972; and Pro Sports Car Racing in America 1958–1974. On the rare occasion that he is home, he resides in Newport Beach, California.

Modern GT Racing presents all the high-speed thrills of the world s most exciting racing. Photographer Dave Friedman has traveled the UK, Europe, and the United States to capture the best cars and fastest drivers on the world s most famed race tracks. From Daytona to Silverstone to Le Mans, from the shops where the cars are built to the winner s podium, GT racing comes to life on the pages of this beautiful book.

Friedman also draws on his extensive historical archive to highlight groundbreaking GT cars of the 60s and 70s, providing a fascinating look back at GT s roots.

Modern GT race cars are some of the fastest, most exciting race cars this side of a Formula 1 track. The GT classes offer an amazing variety of cars from the world s most exciting manufacturers Ferrari, Maserati, Aston Martin, Lamborghini, Lister, Corvette, Porsche all piloted by some of the top drivers in motorsports.

Author and photographer Dave Friedman brings 40-plus years of racing photography experience to the GT arena. Whether shooting pre-race festivities, the stress and toil leading up to race day, or the drama on the track, Friedman s practiced eye always gets the perfect shot.

In addition to Friedman s fantastic contemporary photography, Modern GT Racing offers a look at GT racing from days gone by. Sidebars take the reader inside Carroll Shelby s Cobra works of the early 1960s as well as highlight significant cars of the 1960s and 1970s, tracing the lineage of these rare historical racers to today's top cars. Modern GT Racing is the next best thing to a ticket to Le Mans.