Ed Heuvink Livres

Während eines Formel-1-Rennens im britischen Brands Hatch verunfallte der 35-jährige Jo Siffert in seinem BRM und starb in den Flammen des brennenden Wracks. Siffert war nicht nur ein Nationalheld der Schweiz, er war auch ein Idol für viele Motorsportfans rund um den Globus. In einfachen Verhältnissen aufgewachsen, war dieser Junge aus Fribourg fest entschlossen, Karriere zu machen. Siffert brauchte zehn Jahre, um zu einem der erfolgreichsten Rennfahrer seiner Epoche zu avancieren, der in der Formel 1, der Formel 2 und für Porsche im Sportwagen große Siege feierte. Ob ein technischer Defekt an Sifferts Rennwagen zum tödlichen Unfall der Schweizer Legende führte, ist bis heute unklar. Fest steht jedoch, dass Siffert ausgerechnet auf jener Rennstrecke zur tragischen Figur wurde, auf der er drei Jahre zuvor zum Helden aufgestiegen war. Dieses Buch erzählt die komplette Geschichte des Jo Siffert von seiner bescheidenen Kindheit bis hin zu seinen großen Erfolgen. Autor Ed Heuvink, selbst ein Zeitzeuge der grandiosen Siffert-Triumphe, sprach mit den Angehörigen, den Weggefährten und den sportlichen Rivalen des Schweizer Nationalhelden. Auf 336 Seiten blickt dieses Werk auf Sifferts viel zu kurzes Leben zurück und zeigt auch viele seltene und persönliche Bilder aus privaten Archiven. Umfangreiche Statistiken runden das hochwertige Buch ab.

This book is about a special car in motor sport history. It was designed by Peter Brock, famous for his work on the Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupé and the Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray. The Lang Cooper was entered in the American USRRC – United States Road Racing Championship – by no less a person than Carroll Shelby. Underneath the modern, slick bodywork is a British-built Cooper Monaco fitted with a powerful Ford V8 engine. The car, which took its name from the sponsor Craig Lang, heir to the Olympia brewery fortune, was driven by Ed Leslie in 1964. It was later sold to Charlie Hayes in 1965 before being used in club racing and finally ending up on a scrap yard in South Carolina. After several restorations, the car is now in the N-Anadol Collection in Switzerland and, since it is in both pristine and race-worthy condition, is being entered in several historic events by its current owner. This book not only tells the history of the car in the USRRC right up until today, it also features the Cooper Car Company and tells the story of the creation of the King Cobra.

The Ford GT with chassis number 101 might itself have had a rather unfortunately career, but it was the precursor of Ford’s winning streak at Le Mans in the late 1960s. It all began with Henry Ford II’s idea to win the world’s greatest sports car race and, when Ford’s aim to take over Ferrari failed in 1963, the US automobile giant decided it would build its own sports car. This was the birth of the legendary Ford GT. Less than a year later, Ford brought two cars to the Le Mans Test Weekend – with one of them being chassis 101. Ford had used this very first GT chassis for most of the development work and for the first official presentation of the Ford GT. But during the Le Mans test, Jo Schlesser lost control of the car and destroyed chassis 101 in an unpleasant crash. Almost fifty years later, Ford collector Claude Nahum decided to recreate this very special Ford GT. His copy is so true to the original that it was awarded the prize as the best re-creation in the 2016 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. In this large-format book, author Ed Heuvink tells the full story starting with Ford’s history in motorsport up to the GT project. He explains the role of chassis 101 in detail and reviews the 1964 racing season as well as the later successes of the GT40. Additionally, he details the re-creation of chassis 101. Illustrated with a lot of unseen images and limited to only 999 numbered copies, the book comes in a slip-case and includes a foreword by Henry Ford III, the grandson of Henry Ford II and an introduction by Richard Attwood. It is simply a fantastic addition for the collection of any Ford or sportscar enthusiast.

Rally cars do not make history every day but one that did hit the headlines was the Escort RS1600 that won the East African Safari Rally in 1972. For twenty years, the Safari had been won by drivers from within the East African community and this was despite all attempts by the European rally hierarchy to change that. Acknowledged as the World’s Toughest Rally, the Safari had attracted works teams and works drivers right through the 1960s. They had often led the rally at some point, but never won it. Incredibly, even in teams where there were European and East African drivers in equal machines, it was always a local crew that won through to victory at the finish. In 1972, this challenge was finally overcome when Hannu Mikkola and Gunnar Palm won the Safari in a works-prepared Escort RS1600. The actual car that accomplished that achievement is the subject of this book. The whole story is told from Ford’s first involvement in rally sport through the creation of their own specialist competition department, and how Ford cars fared on rallies in general and on the Safari in particular. The development of the Escort from its Twin Cam beginnings through to the preparation of the works cars for the 1972 Safari is followed by a detailed account of the 1972 rally itself. The back-story to the creation of this book is that this car, the most famous of Escort rally cars, is now in the N-Anadol Collection in Switzerland. Two cars from this unique collection of original Ford competition vehicles have been the subject of books commissioned by their owner. These have been written by the well-known Dutch author of motoring books, Ed Heuvink, and published by McKlein and now this Safari Escort book joins similar volumes on the original Ford GT101 and the Ford P68 sports car. The original pairing from 1972 - Hannu Mikkola and Gunnar Palm - supplied the foreword to this lavishly illustrated book.

The Ford P68 sports car is famous not because it enjoyed great success - indeed rather the opposite - but because it was a beautiful car and because it was powered by Ford’s legendary Cosworth DFV engine. When at the end of 1967 the FIA changed its regulations for the Sports Car World Championship, Ford was left without a major title contender. Their successful seven-litre Ford GTs were no longer permitted to compete in the championship which now became exclusively for three-litre sports prototype cars. Thus Alan Mann, the person in charge of Ford’s European racing activities, saw an opportunity to build a new sports car around the DFV engine which was run successfully in Grand Prix racing.. Ford agreed and the much-respected designer, Len Bailey, created an ambitious and indisputably attractive race car. However, from its first appearance in the Spring of 1968, the car encountered many technical set-backs including the fact that what was easy on the eye was not necessarily aerodynamically competitive with cars like the Porsche 907/908 and the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33. This book tells the full story of the Ford P68 starting with the historic background of Ford in sports car racing, a portrait of Alan Mann Racing and the highly-successful DFV engine. Furthermore, it details the design and development phase of the P68 and its short but adventurous racing career and its after-live in historic racing. One of the surviving P68s is now in the N-Anadol Collection in Switzerland and takes part in historic racing all over Europe. As it is in the same collection as the Ford GT 101 on which Ed Heuvink produced a previous book, the owner commissioned the writer to compose a biography of the Alan Mann car. Together with McKlein Publishing a 158 page book has been produced in line with the Ford GT 101 book. The foreword is written by Richard Attwood, who drove the car during its short career in the late sixties as well as in several historic events some decades later, and the introduction by Henry Mann, the son of Alan Mann.

In seiner fast 40 Jahre andauernden Karriere war Jacky Ickx immer für eine Überraschung gut, sei es im über 350 km/h schnellen Porsche 956 in Le Mans, im Formel-1-Ferrari oder im Mercedes G-Modell bei der Paris-Dakar. Dieser ausführliche Rückblick begleitet Jacky Ickx’ Werdegang ab den ersten Rennen im Ford Lotus Cortina und Mustang. Das Buch beschreibt die Grand-Prix-Karriere des Belgiers bei Ferrari, Brabham und Lotus und blickt auf seine großen Erfolge im Sportwagen zurück, darunter die sechs Gesamtsiege bei den 24 Stunden von Le Mans, die Ickx den Spitznamen „Mister Le Mans“ einbrachten. Abschließend lässt es auch Jackys Wüstenabenteuer, etwa bei der berühmt-erüchtigten Rallye Paris-Dakar, Revue passieren. ///// In a motor sport career spanning some forty years, Jacky Ickx has never failed to surprise whether it be behind the wheel of a 200 mph Porsche 956 at Le Mans or a Formula One Ferrari, or even in a Mercedes G-Wagen on the Paris-Dakar. This comprehensive account of the career of Jacky Ickx takes us from his first races with Ford Lotus Cortinas and Mustangs through to his Formula One career where he drove, among others, for Ferrari, Brabham and Lotus. It also covers his amazing record of six outright wins at the Le Mans 24 Hours – hence the nickname of Mister Le Mans'. Finally, it deals with his success with Mercedes, Porsche, Peugeot and Citroën on desert events like Paris-Dakar.