I just finished reading Go Like Hell by A. J. Baime and cannot recommend it enough. It's about the big push by Ford to beat Ferrari at LeMans in the Mid 60s. The amount research that was done is just amazing and writing style is more like a work of fiction than of history. I couldn't put it down.

http://www.amazon.com/Go-Like-Hell-F...2234652&sr=8-1