Racing Pilots: Five Decades of Jack Webster’s Racing Photography, 50% Off for TMD Readers

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Jack Webster has been photographing motor racing since 1971, the year he saw Steve McQueen in Le Mans and knew what he wanted to do. Racing Pilots: The Motorsports Photography of Jack Webster collects five decades of that work in one hardcover book.

Jack is also one of ours. His photography runs here at The Motorsport Diaries, and for the holidays he’s giving our readers half off the book.

The book

• Hardcover, 10 x 8 inch landscape format
• 324 pages
• More than 400 photographs
• Foreword by Dindo Capello, Audi’s multiple Le Mans and Sebring winner
• Signed by the author

Racing Pilots covers Formula 1 and sports car racing from the early 1970s on. Jack took every photo, wrote every word and designed every page himself. Alongside the pictures you get the stories behind them and quotes from the drivers and racing people he’s met along the way.

Inside the pages

Jack sent us 10 spreads from the book. Jackie Stewart and François Cevert, James Hunt, Jacky Ickx, Mario Andretti with David Hobbs and with Brian Redman, Jackie Oliver and George Follmer at Mid-Ohio, the Bentley Boys and Audi’s drivers all make an appearance. Click any page to see it larger.

Get your copy

Racing Pilots is sold through Jack’s own site, racingpilot.com. Choose the regular or special edition and enter SEBRING at checkout to take 50% off. Every copy is signed by Jack, which makes it a pretty easy holiday gift for the race fan in your life.

Order at racingpilot.com

Rus Ackner Contributing Editor

Rus Ackner has been a racing fan for as long as he can remember. He grew up racing motocross, did some street racing he'd rather not put dates on, and drove anything with four wheels that went fast. Originally a NASCAR fan (his uncle, having been a huge influence, worked in the pits for open-wheel teams, then NASCAR), after he caught the sports car bug at his first 12 Hours of Sebring, he's never looked back (and since then, turns right)! He's also worked inside the industry. He was an advisor and president of a European car aftermarket retailer and advised marketing and technology vendors for various automotive companies. He's done the hands-on work too; engine builds, restorations, drivetrain and suspension upgrades, and exhaust work. Racing photography keeps him close to the sport, and he's still an automotive enthusiast at heart.

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