Ferrari in America: Luigi Chinetti and the North American Racing Team Hardcover – December 1, 2024

Ferrari in America: Luigi Chinetti and the North American Racing Team. Limited Availability. Award winning author Michael Lynch’s romp of a tale chronicles Luigi Chinetti’s fascinating journey in bringing the grand Ferrari marque to America and explores the legacy of his North American Racing Team (NART), a cornerstone of international sports car racing in the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies. This story, however, is far more than Chinetti’s influence on Ferrari coming to America, or even his NART racing team. This story shares the challenges Chinetti faced, and overcame, and the unique people he met along the way. In time, Chinetti became the sole American importer for Ferrari. Being at the nexus of trade for such exquisite objects of desire meant that Chinetti sought, and was sought after by elite clientele. They came from the worlds of finance, industry, politics, entertainment, and sport. Their personalities ranged from the elegant to the mysterious to the swashbuckling. Michael tells their colorful tales, and how they came to prominence and sometimes to demise, and how they came to appreciate Chinetti and the cars he sold them. There are not many motor racing books that would make note of Benito Mussolini, Zora Arkus-Duntov, Ginger Rogers, Phil Hill, Miles Davis, Alberto Ascari, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Wilbur Shaw, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Curtis LeMay, Barbara Hutton, Mario Andretti and Paul Newman within its pages. Yet Michael weaves all of them and many more into a tale that includes espionage, financial shenanigans, romantic encounters, family dynasties, artistic accomplishments, triumphs and tragedies, and of course the sporting and technical developments of racing and NART’s influence on them. Read more