“The Bahamas Speed Weeks” was originally published in 2006 by Veloce Publishing (no relation). In 2013 a second, enlarged edition was published by Dalton Watson. This review, originally published in 2006, has been updated to include the most recent edition.
Terry O’Neil’s “The Bahamas Speed Weeks” is a one-topic book focusing on a series of very social, season ending races held at a third world airport with a tropical setting near Nassau from 1954 to 1966. Indeed, the story of the Nassau Speedweeks deserves a book, (for Ferrari, Maserati and OSCA fans in particular) and O’Neil has covered the races well, documenting every single event which took place at both venues, finding results, name, and serial numbers enough to fill 3/4 of the pages in the volume. [Read more…] about Bahamas Speedweeks, a Review