Motorsport's Banned Machines: The Cars, Bikes, Engines, and Ideas That Became Too Fast, Too Costly, or Too Dangerous - Paperback

Motorsport has always rewarded the brave, the clever, and the fast-but sometimes a machine becomes too successful for the world that allowed it. Motorsport's Banned Machines tells the fact-based story of the cars, bikes, engines, and ideas that forced racing authorities to redraw the limits of competition.

From the Porsche 917 and Can-Am's turbocharged monsters to Formula One fan cars, six-wheeled experiments, Group B rally machines, rotary Le Mans prototypes, NASCAR's aero warriors, Indianapolis turbine cars, 500cc two-stroke motorcycles, and modern MotoGP devices, this book follows the moments when engineering ambition outran the rulebook. Some machines were banned because they were too fast. Others became too costly, too dangerous, or too difficult to classify. Many were legal when they raced, but their success changed the rules forever.

Written in a flowing, narrative style, this is a polished journey through motorsport's most controversial innovations-and the lasting legacy of the machines that racing could not allow to continue.

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