HOW MATRA CAME FROM NOWHERE TO LEAD THE WORLD!

This new book from Veloce Publishing, details the origin and history of the Matra sports cars.

Racers designed and built by a French firm with no history of sports car racing manufacture to contest the various versions of the World Sports Car Championship between 1966 and 1974. This series of cars started life with the 2-litre BRM engine before progressing to the Ford V8, and subsequently Matra’s own sonorous V12 from its then current Grand Prix car.

The book includes the development and race history, with a full list of all race events and individual chassis numbers of Matra cars.

The late 1960s and early 1970s were a significant era in the world of international sports car racing. As the motor racing rule-making body moved back and forth between cars that less and less resembled road going vehicles, prototype sports car racing captured the imagination of manufacturers, teams and fans alike. Porsche vs. Ferrari vs. Alfa Romeo vs. Matra provided some of the best racing for sports cars ever witnessed, and by 1973, the Matra prototype – little more than a Grand Prix car with full bodywork – was dominating the scene. That period has always been viewed as one of the great eras in sports car racing, when all the great Grand Prix drivers were fully active in sports car as well as GP/F1 machines.

This carefully-researched book, which provides the complete story of a great time, and a great make, in motorsport is now available from bookshops or from www.velocebooks.com

Matra sports cars– MS620, 630, 650, 660 & 670 – 1966 to 1974
By Ed McDonough
ISBN 9781845842611
UPC 636847042615
Available now.
UK ￡15.99, USA $29.95