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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Motor sports > General
Forty pages of action with times filled in. The Summit Mountain
Hill Climbs of Uniontown, Pennsylvania ran three miles from Hopwood
to the top of Summit Mountain. This 1915 program takes you to the
mountain with 25,000 onlookers and Indy 500 winner Ralph DePalma.
The original program was donated to author, Marci McGuinness, by
Gary Cooper of Charleroi, PA. A year after this pro race, coal,
auto and film barons joined famed driver (beat DePalma ), Charlie
Johnson to build the fastest board track in America, the Uniontown
Speedway. Some of the 1915 Summit Mt. Hill Climb Drivers: Denny
Hickey - Metz A.D. Spencer - Buick Ralph DePalma - Mercedes Charlie
Johnson - Packard Guy Woodward - Ford Joe Dawson - Marmon I.P.
Fetterman - Simplex Joe Boyce - Hispanosuiza
On June 17, 2006, unknown part-time driver David Gilliland brought
his homemade car and can-do attitude to Kentucky Speedway. With
just seven NASCAR starts, his best Nationwide finish was 29th. But
that night he achieved one of the sport's greatest upsets ever.
Circle of Hope: An Inspiring NASCAR Journey profiles fascinating
lesser-known drivers in NASCAR's two top series through joy and
triumph, disappointment and defeat. Journalist Deann Alford follows
hope-driven stories of Sprint Cup driver David Reutimann; NASCAR
legend Morgan Shepherd; ARCA truck champion Brett Rowe; Nationwide
driver Eric McClure; and David Gilliland whose spectacular win
landed on NASCAR media's ballot for "Race of the Decade." This book
offers behind-the-scenes portraits of drivers and those covering
the sport, plus vignettes with stars Tony Stewart, Kevin Harvick,
Carl Edwards, Jimmie Johnson, Trevor Bayne and celebrated dirt
racer Buzzie Reutimann. Each provided the author with hope amid her
own darkest season of grief. Circle of Hope brings refreshing
encouragement to those needing hope, no matter their walk, in their
own battles of life.
This book started as a self-serving exercise to personally organize
the major details and interesting facts of each Indianapolis 500
over the 100-year history of the greatest race in the world. For
many of us passionate racing fans who have attended a multitude of
"500s," there is a tendency for the details of the races to
(somewhat) blend together. I hope this book will help to provide
clarity in this regard, as well as educate. During high school,
many of us chose to use CliffsNotes to assist in the education
process. This book is somewhat patterned after that concept. It
falls somewhere between Donald Davidson and Rick Schaffer's
Autocourse Official History of the Indianapolis 500-the best and by
far the most detailed book on the history of the Indianapolis
500-and a multitude of pictorial books with limited information. I
hope it will prove to be an easy read with entertaining and
educational information.
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