The New Book on Jacky Ickx is Out ! We Interview Author Jon Saltinstall

Steve Zautke interviews Jon Saltinstall. His new book, Jacky Ickx -His Authorised Competition History is about one of the true greats of motor racing. In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Ickx was both highly successful and hugely versatile, racing at the highest level in a wide variety of categories — including Formula 1, sports cars, touring cars and rally raids — and winning throughout. Among many accolades, Ickx won the Le Mans 24 Hours an unprecedented six times and twice finished runner-up in the Formula 1 World Championship. This exhaustively researched book has been written with his full co-operation and outlines every one of the 565 races that he contested in cars and on motorcycles, forming a detailed and insightful record of his racing life supported by over 850 photographs, many of which have never been published before.