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If you're still struggling to find a motorsport book to spend those Christmas book tokens on, pick up a copy of Looking Back: The Motorsport Photography of Terry Marshall.
The book was released in November to good reviews and is a collection of 250-odd pictures dating back to the 1960s and covers, some would say, the halcyon days of motor racing in New Zealand.
It covers the early days of the first Tasman Cup Series when New Zealand drivers battled it out with likes of Jim Clark, Sir Jackie Stewart, Jochen Rindt and Piers Courage. There are evocative black and white images of Formula 5000 and the early days of the big, booming V8s in all their glory.
Among the many pictures are personal thoughts and observations from such drivers as Chris Amon, Sir Jackie, David Oxton, Kenny Smith, Paul Fahey and Jim Richards as well as former F1 Champion Keke Rosberg and ex-pat racers like Leo Leonard, Craig Baird and Steve Millen.
Although Marshall is well versed in the use of colour and digital photography, the book concentrates on his black and white days up to the 1980s. The, at times, grainy images give a real feel to what it must have been like to race back in the days before high-tech took over - when the cars had to be driven, not programmed.
NZ Classic Car magazine editor Allan Walton has penned the words, himself no stranger to motorsport, and he's managed to put together a good yarn around some great pictures.
Getting Rosberg and Eoin Young to contribute a foreword adds gravitas to the book.
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Looking Back: The Motorsport Photography of Terry Marshall
By Terry Marshall and Allan Walton
* RRP $49.99
* HarperSport
