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MASERATI 450S

A BAZOOKA FROM MODENA

Walter Bäumer and Jean-Francois Blachette

ISBN 978-1-956309-12-6

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Publication: 1 MARCH 2024
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ISBN: 9781956309126
Price: £150
Binding: Hardback

Format: 290 x 295 mm
Extent: 320 pp
Illustrated: 257 illustrations/photos
Thema: WGCB Motor cars,

SMF Motor Sports

Comparative title: 9781854432391 Maserati A6GCS

This book retraces the saga of the ten Maserati 450S
“Bazookas.”

The Maserati 450S, also called Tipo 54 in the factory
codification, was the fastest and most powerful of the
Maseratis built to face the archrival Ferrari in the World
Sports Car Championship of the 1957 season, which
constituted the apotheosis of the golden age of motor
SHORT DISCOUNT TITLE: MAXIMUM 30% racing. Fitted with the powerful Maserati 4.5 liter V8 engine
and dressed in an elegant bodywork by Fantuzzi, it was the
“lethal weapon” that was to allow Maserati to win the 1957
Walter Bäumer is a Maserati historian and the author of three Sportscar World Championship.
previous books, all published by Dalton Watson.
Nicknamed “Bazooka,” the 450S became also the most
Jean-Francois Blachette is president of the Club Maserati tragic race car that Maserati ever built: it won in Sebring
France and editor of Modena, the club magazine. and Sweden, but it totally failed at the Mille Miglia, at the
Nürburgring, and in Le Mans, culminating in a grotesque
and disastrous race in Venezuela, leaving all laurels to
Ferrari. It then became obsolete in Europe due to a change
in the FIA regulations in 1958.

In the United States, the Maserati 450S started its other
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at the hands of the best US drivers like Carroll Shelby, Jim
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race history in the 1950s. This book includes an
Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change exceptional iconography of period photos, most of which
without notice. 25/01/2024 have never been published before.