{"id":491733,"date":"2011-03-01T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=35722"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:04:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T22:04:02","slug":"product-reviews-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/product-reviews-5\/","title":{"rendered":"[Book Review] Caribbean Capers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Caribbean Capers<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">By Joel E. Finn<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Subtitled \u201cThe Cuban Grand Prix Races of 1957, 1958 &amp; 1960,\u201d this book documents the trio of sports car races held in Cuba during the years surrounding the country\u2019s conversion to communism as Fidel Castro\u2019s revolution toppled the dictator Fulgencio Battista. Author Finn actually attended the races held in 1958 and 1960, and admits that publishing a proper history of the Cuban GPs had long been a personal ambition. That ambition has been realized in fine style with a 370-page work that exhaustively chronicles the trio of events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The races themselves sprang from Battista\u2019s desire to make Cuba a \u201cdestination\u201d for visitors, as by the mid-\u201950s tourism had become the island nation\u2019s primary industry. Havana had become the gambling center of the world\u2014assisted by nefarious familial involvements from certain North Americans\u2014but motor racing had also been popular in Cuba for many years. The Cubans initially wanted a round of the Formula One World Championship for the 3.5-mile Malecon Drive circuit along Havana\u2019s harborfront, but when that effort was rebuffed, they shifted their sights to a round of the World Sports Car Championship. In the end they settled for non-championship sports car contests that still drew all the top names of the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Finn\u2019s detailed text tells the story of these races, including the Fangio kidnapping of 1958, and when supplemented by superb photography results in an engrossing tale. Available for $199.95 plus shipping, from Racemaker Press, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racemaker.com\">www.racemaker.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PR201103-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-571499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PR201103-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PR201103-p1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PR201103-p1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PR201103-p1-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PR201103-p1-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PR201103-p1-770x575.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PR201103-p1-293x219.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caribbean Capers By Joel E. Finn Subtitled \u201cThe Cuban Grand Prix Races of 1957, 1958 &amp; 1960,\u201d this book documents the trio of sports car races held in Cuba during the years surrounding the country\u2019s conversion to communism as Fidel Castro\u2019s revolution toppled the dictator Fulgencio Battista. Author Finn actually attended the races held in 1958 and 1960, and admits that publishing a proper history of the Cuban GPs had long been a personal ambition. That ambition has been realized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":571499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,11339],"tags":[2942,17152,17940,3297],"class_list":["post-491733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-product","tag-car-books","tag-car-culture","tag-product-reviews","tag-products"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>[Book Review] Caribbean Capers<\/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-5\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Book Review] Caribbean Capers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Caribbean Capers By Joel E. 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