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"While you were sitting in the stands or watching at home on TV,
did you ever ask yourself what's really going on behind the scenes?
Take a ride on the seat next to auto-racing legend Bobby Allison
and relive the dramatic saga of the ""Alabama"" Gang in this unique
look at NASCAR from the inside."
Bobby Allison, who ranks third place in wins in NASCAR history,
began his Grand National/Winston Cup career in 1966. After winning
eighty-five races, he retired in 1988 when an accident at Pocono
Raceway nearly killed him. He was severely brain injured, and it
took him a full fifteen years to recover. After the accident, more
tragedy struck. In 1992 his younger son, Clifford, died in a crash
at the age of twenty-seven. A year later, his other son, Davey,
died in a helicopter accident, and in 1994 he lost his close friend
and protege Neil Bonnet in a fatal crash. Then Bobby and his wife,
Judy, separated and divorced. Through it all Bobby Allison
persevered.
Today Bobby's mind is as sharp, detailed, and analytical as
anyone's in sports. Bobby remembers so much, in such great detail,
the stories he tells leap off the page. It's all there---the feuds,
the infighting, the victories, the accusations of cheating, and
worse.
Incredibly, Bobby, the poster boy for hard work, honesty, and
integrity, holds "nothing" back, even when it reflects poorly on
him. "It happened, and there's nothing I can do about that," is
what he says. The result is raw racing history.
Along with the Earnhardts, the Jarretts, and the Pettys, the
Allisons are racing family royalty, and "Miracle," a family saga of
determination, loyalty, and love, is filled with some of the
greatest racing stories of all time. If you ever wanted to read a
book that puts you in the garage, in the pits, and in the
boardrooms, and at the same time tugs at your heartstrings---this
is the book for you.
The Autocross Logbook is designed for the autocross enthusiast for
keeping track of vehicle settings, race times and event
information. The logbook includes sections for twenty five auto
cross race events with the ability to record different vehicle
settings for up to six runs per event. The log book includes space
to log the following items: EVENT INFORMATION: Event Name Date
Location Weather Vehicle Make Vehicle Model Tires FTD (fastest time
of the day) PAX Ranking Class Rank Area for a Course Sketch RUN
INFORMATION: Includes six runs for each event section and allows
you to record different settings, notes and time for each run.
Front Tire Pressure (Driver & Passenger Side) Rear Tire
Pressure (Driver & Passenger Side) Front Shock (Driver &
Passenger Side) Rear Shock (Driver & Passenger Side) Swaybar
(Front & Rear) Time Notes
Explore the history of the sport and the daring riders leaving
their mark on racing history.
NASCAR racing, once considered no more than a regional circuit
of moonshiners pounding around low-country dirt tracks in a cloud
of red dust and cliche, has somehow become America's
fastest-growing spectator sport. With 75 million ardent fans, it is
a sports entertainment empire built at the very crossroads of pop
culture, corporate commerce, and American mythology -- a
platinum-plated, V-8 hero machine.
Smart, funny, and profane, "Sunday Money" is the kaleidoscopic
account of a season on the NASCAR circuit. Driving 48,000 miles in
a tiny motor home, Jeff MacGregor and his wife tracked the lives of
superstar drivers like Junior Earnhardt and Tony Stewart, their
crews, and their fans across the grinding reach of a 40-week
season.
More than just a behind-the-scenes chronicle of America's
loudest pastime, "Sunday Money" is the story of a hundred stories,
of red states and blue, of splendid Rebels and Yankee hotshoes. It
is a brilliant snapshot of American culture -- of race, religion,
class, sex, money, and fame -- taken from the window of a moving
car.
In "How to Collect Racing Autographs by Mail," Brian Ludlow
provides racing fans with a single source for: Learning how to
obtain autographs from current and former racing greats Gaining
access to a compiled list of racing-related addresses Creating a
request letter from the sample letters included in the guide
Understanding racing terminology and the meaning of the flags used
during a race Accessing lists of past champions, rookies of the
year, race winners, birthdays, Hall of Fame inductees, and much
more
Want to start your own collection of racing autographs? Well,
look no further! In this book Brian gives you simple, complete,
step-by-step instructions for assembling a collection you will
treasure the rest of your life.
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The sequel to Foumula One thriller Chicane. Following his part
exposing a scandal in the Grand Prix motor racing world, Dan Piercy
sets up a new team promoting a nicotine-free full-taste cigarette.
The action takes place mainly in America - Boston, California,
Miami - and involves a Columbian drug' ring and mafia associates.
Soon Dan Piercy is fighting for his life and those of his friends.
Ex IRA man Liam Sullivan is on hand to help out. The world of motor
racing with its violent pace and strong colours provides a rich
back drop, the climax being the US Grand Prix.
What is it that makes a man strap himself into an automobile and
drive it hundreds of laps around a track at speeds surpassing 200
miles per hour? Critically acclaimed journalist G. Wayne Miller
decided to find out by spending a year on the NASCAR circuit with
Roush Racing's legendary owner Jack Roush and his four
title-contending Winston Cup drivers: Mark Martin, Jeff Burton,
Matt Kenseth, and Kurt Busch. Miller plumbs the allure of speed and
the exploding popularity of stock-car racing through the dramatic
2001 season, which opened with the most famous Daytona 500 in
history, when NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt died as his car slammed
into the wall on the final turn.
Miller takes us inside the minds and behind the wheels of the
of the hottest drivers of the past two seasons, as they cope with
the thrills and the dangers along the way to the Cup. Miller also
takes us inside Roush Racing, a $125 million business, showing a
side of NASCAR that few fans ever get to see. For longtime fans and
curious newcomers alike, "Men and Speed" takes you for a wild ride
through the fastest sport in the land.
NASCAR Winston Cup stock car racing is America's fastest growing
and most popular spectator sport. This book is a cultural and
social reading of Winston Cup racing, the people who made the sport
what it is today, and the corporations who sponsor the participants
during their thirty-two race, ten-month quest for the national
championship.
For all armchair adventurers, Against Gravity is the compelling
story of a highly successful advertising executive who left Madison
Avenue to race his car in the deadly 8,000-mile Paris-Dakar rally.
An in-depth study of the Sauber-Mercedes racecars that dominated
the Group C racing scene during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
When Peter Sauber started using Mercedes V8 engines in his Group C
sports cars in 1985 the result was World Championship wins in 1989
and 1990. Utterly dominant, the three-pointed star of Mercedes beat
the TWR Jaguars and Nissans, and introduced a certain M. Schumacher
into the factory team in 1990. This book features interviews with
many of the personalities who raced with the Sauber-Mercedes team,
including Jochen Mass, Mauro Baldi, Kenny Acheson, David Price,
Bobby Bell and Leo Ress. A host of magnificent colour photographs
backs up the history and development of the cars. Also included is
a chassis-by-chassis history of each individual car.
To mark the 70th anniversary of Ferrari, this book does not wish to
be a new story about the prestigious marque, but a tribute to the
Prancing Horse and its golden years, when it was led by just one
man: Enzo Ferrari. From the opportunity of publishing absolutely
new photographic material recently acquired by Giorgio Nada
Editore, comes "Ferrari The Golden Years". It is a book illustrated
by the pictures taken by one of the most observant photographers of
Ferrari, Franco Villani. With powerful and evocative photographs,
the work covers the era of the man and his unrepeatable creation,
from the end of the '40s - when the 125 first rolled into the
factory's courtyard - to the '80s, when the Commendatore died on a
midsummer's morning.
'It is true to say that I had the greatest difficulty putting this
book down. Don't miss it! Murray Walker Regarded as one of the best
drivers never to win the Formula One title, Gilles Villeneuve
became a legend in his own lifetime, a driver whose skill and
daring personified the ideals of Grand Prix racing, the pinnacle of
motor sport. With his flamboyantly aggressive. press-on-regardless
style in his scarlet Ferrari, he captured the imagination of a vast
international audience as no other driver has in recent times until
his tragic death in practice at the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix - after
a controversial incident with team mate Didier Pironi, who had
stolen victory from him two weeks previously in San Marino. Gerald
Donaldson covered Villeneuve's first and last Formula One races and
many of those in between. In this authoritative biography,
available for the first time in paperback. Donaldson captures all
the drama and emotion, humour and heartbreak of a life lived at the
limit.
Great photographer Manrico Martella covers in this book the entire
history of world rallying through his lens, from the early `70s to
today. "What are rallies to me? They are over 40 years of life
throughout the world, 40 years of joy, pain, emotions, human
contact, but above all they comprise a long period of time of
constant research for the right shot, one where newspapers had to
make them the lead story or illustrate a centre page double spread.
That picture has always touched on the difficult task of
catapulting the reader right into the heart of Kenya and its sand
and unlimited sky: in the midst of Sweden's ice or through the damp
British forests. This has always been the main objective of my
search, to live the atmosphere of a location, the pathos of a
moment and the excitement of being there, all encapsulated in one
shot. It is also for that reason that rally cars are never the key
protagonists of my images, but rather one of the various elements
that compose those rallying panoramas comprising people, villages,
woods, mountains or the sea - whatever - all indisputable
protagonists equal to the cars and their drivers". Those are the
words of of this extraordinary photographic artist: the most
fabulous and victorious cars and the greatest drivers never got
away from his eye. The text is by Emanuele Sanfront, sports
journalist, `60s and `70s driver and navigator.
*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Why is F1 the perfect example for
leadership, motivation and strategy? And what can we learn from it?
How does a pit crew change four wheels in 1.9 seconds? And what
does that mean for a company like Blackberry? What is Ron Dennis'
secret to good time management? And how can that help TV producers?
In The Winning Formula, driver, commentator and entrepreneur David
Coulthard opens the doors to the secretive world of F1 and reveals
in simple, entertaining and utterly compelling terms how he has
been able to master this mind-boggling variety of disciplines by
applying the skills honed from his years at the top of the world's
most demanding motorsport. By recounting his own stories, and
combining them with first-hand experience of stellar individuals
such as Lewis Hamilton, Ron Dennis, Sir Frank Williams, Christian
Horner and Sebastian Vettel, Coulthard provides a fascinating
fly-on-the-wall insight into F1 but at the same time offers an
invaluable guide to the business of sport and the sport of
business.
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