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West Bohemian Races and Circuits. A Century of West Bohemian Road Racing, Jiří Wohlmuth

Original price was: 299,00 Kč.Current price is: 299,00 Kč.

West Bohemian Races and Circuits is a continuation of memories of motor racing on city circuits and hillclimbs. It loosely follows on from the editions from Central and Northern Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. Road races in West Bohemia began in the mid-1920s. They were considerably more modest than those in other parts of the country, but for example the famous races in Pilsen Lochotín were very significant and famous racers regularly started in them.
The first pre-war part deals not only with racing in Pilsen and the surrounding area, but also in the spa town of Karlovy Vary. The second part chronologically deals with post-war racing in a number of places, Cheb, Kdyň, Klatovy and Nepomuk. In the third separate part, you will get to know several excellent racers, designers and mechanics, whose names were famous throughout Europe in their time - Otto Krattner, Josef Lukšík, Albín Patlejch, Václav Pauer, Josef Sloup, František Sutnar, Miloslav Vališ. The book is complemented by circuit maps, period, previously unpublished photographs and, as is traditional, results reports.

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West Bohemian Races and Circuits is a continuation of memories of motor racing on city circuits and hillclimbs. It loosely follows on from the editions from Central and Northern Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. Road races in West Bohemia began in the mid-1920s. They were considerably more modest than those in other parts of the country, but for example the famous races in Pilsen Lochotín were very significant and famous racers regularly started in them.
The first pre-war part deals not only with racing in Pilsen and the surrounding area, but also in the spa town of Karlovy Vary. The second part chronologically deals with post-war racing in a number of places, Cheb, Kdyň, Klatovy and Nepomuk. In the third separate part, you will get to know several excellent racers, designers and mechanics, whose names were famous throughout Europe in their time - Otto Krattner, Josef Lukšík, Albín Patlejch, Václav Pauer, Josef Sloup, František Sutnar, Miloslav Vališ. The book is complemented by circuit maps, period, previously unpublished photographs and, as is traditional, results reports.

Grada Publishing House, hardcover, format 16.5 x 24 cm, 136 pages.

ISBN 978-80-271-3147-1.

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Weight 0,435 kg

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