Fast Lane: Motor Sports in the Philippines

Celebrating the 5th anniversary of the Automobile Association Philippines (AAP) will never be complete without a trip to the racetrack. Since 1951, the AAP, then still known as Philippine Motor Association (PMA), has been the representative of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), the world governing body for motor sports.

Thus, it is only fitting that the AAP comes out with this book that chronicles the development of motor sports—particularly car racing—in this part of the world.

In this book, former sportswriter and motoring journalist Junep Ocampo combed through hundreds of yellowing scrapbooks and albums for never-before-published photographs, interviewed the pioneers of Philippine car racing, and went over thousands of already brittle newspaper clippings to present a panorama of the development of Philippine motor sports from the '50s to the present.

They are all here—the early days, Dodjie Laurel, the Cam Wreckers, the races in Cebu, Manila, Greenhills, BF El Grande, the great car rallies, and many more. Relive those moments. See familiar faces. Remember important events in Philippine motor sports history.

Fasten your seatbelts; this is the Fast Lane.

Published in 2003 by Automobile Association of the Philippines

224 pages / Hardcover