ISBN 1-893618-71-4 Racing in the Rain,My Years Spent with legendary Sports cars, and a Dedicated Tea

Few can claim that their racing careers spanned the greatest decades in sports-car competition___the 1960s and 1970s___and then extended into the 1980s. Fewer still were consistently successful. John Horsman is one of the fortunate few.
The blue-and-orange Gulf-sponsored Ford GT40s, Mirages, and Porsche 917s prepared by Horsman and his team are among the most famous race cars ever produced. The all-star driver lineup that competed in his cars includes Derek Bell, Mike Hailwood, David Hobbs, Jacky Ickx, Brian Redman, Pedro Rodriguez, Vern Schuppan, and Jo Siffert. The team excelled everywhere, winning Le Mans three times and the World Championship three times, and was particularly adept in wet-weather conditions where competitors struggled to match their pace. Some records achieved by Horsman___s team still stand forty years later.



Horsman___s vivid personal account takes you to the world___s greatest racing circuits and puts you alongside the drivers and the crew as you experience things such as Jacky Ickx___s prowess driving in the rain, the fiery determination of Pedro Rodriguez and his astonishing come-from-behind wins, and Horsman___s exciting solution to the Porsche 917___s handling problems, with a tail of his own design. The details provided in the behind-the-scenes operation of the team are phenomenal, spanning everything from the operating budget of the GT40 program to the tire pressures used in the winning cars at Le Mans. This is the definitive account of one of the most successful teams in motorsport