Start with high-confidence auto racing books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
How to Build a Car: the Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer
Adrian Newey
Awesome Bill From Dawsonville
Bill Elliott, Chris Millard
The Formula
Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg
On the Grid
Luke Smith, Joe Eyre
Growing Wings
Ben Hunt
Faster
Neal Bascomb
Enzo Ferrari
Brock Yates
Inside Mercedes F1
Matt Whyman
Surviving to Drive
Guenther Steiner
Racing to the Finish
Dale Earnhardt Jr., Ryan McGee
Driven
Susie Wolff
Driving With the Devil
Neal Thompson
Sundays Will Never Be the Same
Darrell Waltrip
Brabham
Tony Davis
Chassis Engineering
Herb Adams
Formula One: the Champions
Maurice Hamilton, Bernard Cahier
The Mechanic
Marc 'Elvis' Priestley, Marc 'Elvis' Priestley
Unfiltered
111 Porsche Stories That You Should Know
Wilfried Muller
