Three’s A Crowd : The First 20 Years Of British Formula 3. A Pictorial History 1964 to 1983

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Three’s a Crowd is a pictorial history of the first twenty years of British Formula 3. It remembers the drivers and personalities who inhabitated the fast-paced worldof the junior category of motor racing in those heady days of the swinging sixties and grovy seventies. Remember them? When long hair turned to big hair. Lurid tans and tight trousers were set off by flares. Dance floors caught Saturday Night Fever. Floppy discs started up. The wider world experienced its first oil crisis and the UK learnt what ‘Stagflation’ meant. Meanwhile in Vietnam the war really was over.

From its humble oriains in 1964, the brilliant little 1-lire formula went through many changes during next two decades as outside commercial sponsorship and new regulations took root and challengers from America threatened to usurp its pre-eminence. On more than one occasion the category came close to extinction as costs threatened to escalate out of control and the very home of F3 was buffeted by the turbulence of industrial unrest and sky-high inflation.

Throughout it all though, the racing continued to be ferociously competitive and hard fought. Ultimately, thankfully, the formula emerged stronger and healthier than ever before.

Also Includes a CD Rom covering a previous book called “The Likley Lads The first 20 years: Formula 3 results for British, French, and major international races”