{"id":491035,"date":"2009-12-01T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=43190"},"modified":"2025-01-06T00:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:46:11","slug":"product-reviews-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/product-reviews-26\/","title":{"rendered":"[Book Review] Ferrari 312P &#038; 312PB"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Ferrari 312P &amp; 312PB<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">By Ed McDonough and Peter Collins<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/PR200912-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-595274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/PR200912-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/PR200912-p1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/PR200912-p1-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/PR200912-p1-1024x914.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/PR200912-p1-100x89.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/PR200912-p1-770x687.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/PR200912-p1-293x262.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a>Billed as \u201cthe story of a great car and a great time in motorsport history,\u201d this is the first book devoted solely to Ferrari\u2019s 312P and 312PB models, and it features many rare and previously unpublished photos. The 312PB utterly dominated the 1972 World Sportscar Championship, winning every race in which it was entered and finishing 1st and 2nd at all but two (one where only one car was entered), while taking 1st through 4th in Austria!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Part of Veloce Publishing\u2019s WSC Giants Series, this book\u2014written by VR European editors Ed McDonough and Peter Collins\u2014traces the car\u2019s complete development history and provides race-by-race competition records for each chassis. Those results also list the drivers tapped by the Scuderia for duty in what was essentially a Grand Prix car with fully enveloping bodywork, men with names like Amon, Andretti, Ickx, Pace, Peterson, Redman, Regazzoni, Rodriguez, and Schenken. While their contributions are acknowledged in brief sidebars, greater length is devoted to rally ace Sandro Munari\u2019s recollections of sharing the winning car in that year\u2019s Targa Florio with Arturo Merzario.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Available for US$29.95 (\u00a314.99) directly from the publisher at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veloce.co.uk\">www.veloce.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari 312P &amp; 312PB By Ed McDonough and Peter Collins Billed as \u201cthe story of a great car and a great time in motorsport history,\u201d this is the first book devoted solely to Ferrari\u2019s 312P and 312PB models, and it features many rare and previously unpublished photos. The 312PB utterly dominated the 1972 World Sportscar Championship, winning every race in which it was entered and finishing 1st and 2nd at all but two (one where only one car was entered), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":595274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,56,11339],"tags":[2942,17152,60,20226,4708,4709,17941,4495,22384,17940,3297,22929],"class_list":["post-491035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-ferrari","category-product","tag-car-books","tag-car-culture","tag-ferrari","tag-ferrari-featured","tag-ferrari-312-p","tag-ferrari-312-pb","tag-ferrari-book","tag-ferrari-race-cars","tag-ferrari-race-cars-featured","tag-product-reviews","tag-products","tag-race-cars-featured"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>[Book Review] Ferrari 312P &amp; 312PB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/product-reviews-26\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Book Review] Ferrari 312P &amp; 312PB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ferrari 312P &amp; 312PB By Ed McDonough and Peter Collins Billed as \u201cthe story of a great car and a great time in motorsport history,\u201d this is the first book devoted solely to Ferrari\u2019s 312P and 312PB models, and it features many rare and previously unpublished photos. 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