Talk at the Century Association, New York, 30 April 2026
The Century Association, on New York’s West 43rd Street, was founded as a private club in 1847, and was called ‘the most unspeakably respectable club in the United States’ by Mark Twain. Whitney’s father Willard was a member, and I am honoured that the celebration of the book’s US launch will take place there. This will necessarily be a private, invitation-only event.
Talk at the International Motor Racing Research Center, Watkins Glen, NY, 5 May 2026
The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) is based in Watkins Glen, New York, just ten minutes’ drive from the circuit which hosted the US Grand Prix between 1961 and 1980. The Center’s archives are dedicated to collecting, preserving and sharing the history of motorsport, and have grown extensively over the last 20 years, such that it now holds more than 4,000 reference books; 250 different motorsport magazine and newspaper titles; and the entire 75-year history of the Sports Car Club of America.
My visit to the IMRRC and to the track will be something of a pilgrimage, and I look forward to giving my talk at the Center, at 2pm on 5 May.
Signing at Autobooks-Aerobooks, Burbank, CA, 23 May 2026
Autobooks-Aerobooks, on Burbank’s West Magnolia Boulevard, is quite obviously the most appropriate book shop on the planet to stock the book. It’s even got a chequered flag floor! Almost sixteen years after my last visit, I’ll be back there for a signing, and I can’t wait to hang out with owner Tina van Curen again.