Mid-Atlantic American Sports Car Races 1953-1962

This is the beginning of a series of book reviews on early American racing, written by some very committed authors and published by Dalton Watson Fine Books. Mid-Atlantic American Sports Car Races 1953-1962 is the first of these books to be reviewed, and what an impressive piece of work by author Terry O’Neil.

When most folk talk about early motorsport in America, thoughts tend to migrate towards the birth of the hot rod era in Southern California, or the circuits up the West Coast. For a number of reasons, the Mid-Atlantic sports car scene was not as developed as it was in California or the more densely populated North East states, as the author explains. For the benefit of our readers in other parts of the world, the Mid-Atlantic states of America include Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington DC. For the sake of completeness, and as such a detailed study on this subject was unlikely to be undertaken again for some time, the author has included Louisville, Kentucky and North Carolina.