Rear-engined Cooper cars revolutionized motorsport by winning Fomrula 1 world championships in 1959 an d1960. In this pictorial account of the rise and fall of the Cooper, the author provides an insight into the cars, the company and the postwar motor-racing history and shows how the innovative spirit of British pioneers transformed motorsports. The author recalls how the Coopers began to build simple 500cc racing cars as light, simple, and inexpensive, and how these evolved into sophisticated sportsracing cars of the 1950s.