The Bahamas Speed Weeks Revised Edition, including the Revival Meetings
By Terry O’Neil
From 1954 to 1966, the Bahamas Speed Weeks—on New Providence Island in the Bahamas—was a must-do race meeting that combined post-season competition, with warm, tropical winter weather and a prodigious party scene that came to be just as important a draw as the racing itself.
This extremely well-researched account tracks the history and evolution of this much loved Caribbean event throughout its rollercoaster 13-year history and into its eventual demise due to politics and the introduction of professionalism in motorsport.
In this freshly released, revised edition, O’Neil has refined and updated many of the finer historical points, while adding more than 6,000 words of additional text, 300 additional photographs, as well as expanded indices and new chapters that include the recent Revival Meetings held in 2011 and 2012.
Lavishly reproduced in large format, this 472-page tome is without a doubt the definitive text on the history of this popular event and a very detailed account of the many drivers, teams and personalities that enjoyed spending the first week of December racing and partying in the Bahamas each year.
Available from www.daltonwatson.com for $155.00
