Posted on: 2005-07-31 01:09:05
There aren’t that many good books about motor racing, particularly those that treat the topic as serious history. Richard Williams’ The Last Road Race, profiling the 1957 Pescara Grand Prix, promised to be different.
According to the dust jacket’s breathless blurb, the race “marked the end of this era in motor racing … over public roads on the Adriatic coast in a three-hour race of frightening speed and constant danger.” I was expecting great things.
Alas, I was disappointed. In the end, this is a dry, rather bloodless account of an activity inherently charged with drama and risk.
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