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The Moto Guzzi Sport & Le Mans Bible celebrates the iconic Moto
Guzzi V7 Sport and Le Mans sporting motorcycles of the 1970s and
1980s. It tells the story of these classic bikes, which were among
the first Superbikes to combine Italian style, handling, and
performance.After struggling to survive during the 1960s, Lino
Tonti was given the opportunity to create the V7 Sport Telaio
Rosso, in 1971. It was so successful that Moto Guzzi shifted to
specialize in building sporting motorcycles.Covering all models
produced from 1971 to 1993 (V7 Sport, 750S, 750S3, 850 Le Mans, 850
Le Mans II, 850 Le Mans III, 1000 Le Mans IV, 1000 Le Mans V),
descriptions of model development year by year, full production
data, and 160 photos, this is the essential Bible for all
enthusiasts.
What compels a young man or woman to spend ungodly amounts of money
driving a racecar every weekend at the local track, risking life
and limb at 150 miles an hour, entertaining friends and total
strangers? Author editorial cartoonist Bob Englehart had to find
out after witnessing the tragic wreck that killed Boston-area
driver Shane Hammond at Thompson International Speedway. This
non-fiction book explores a slice of American culture, the short
track racing obsession, and how the author became a fan as a child,
bedridden for a year by rheumatic fever with only his imagination,
pencils, and watercolors to pass the time. The author writes about
his parents' divorces and remarriages during an era when divorce
was rare, giving him and his brother Tim a stigma in their
neighborhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The author discovers the
extraordinary motivation behind Shane Hammond's desire to race by a
chance encounter with his mother and younger brother in the pits at
the last race of the season. Trackrat: Memoir of a Fan is about
love of family in spite of the complexity and confusion it may
involve and the author's working class heroes on the track. This
isn't NASCAR; this is your neighbor.
The Lola T70 was the car that Eric Broadley wanted to build for
Ford instead of the GT40. He thought the GT40 too conservative in
specification for a state-of-the-art sports racing car, so he split
with the giant corporation to build the T70 under the aegis of his
own company: Lola.Immediately successful, the T70 carried John
Surtees to the Championship in the 1966 Can-Am series. The cars
were also very successful in Group 7 races until the series ended
in 1966, by which time the likes of Denny Hulme, David Hobbs and
Brian Redman had all driven T70s to victory.Under continuous
development until the Mk IIIb Coupe of 1969, the T70 was never a
great endurance racer but achieved major successes in shorter
events such as the TT and Martini races. Today, the T70 is a
leading force in historic racing.Over many years, John Starkey -
T70 owner and ex-Curator of the famous Donington racing car
collection - has compiled a huge amount of information on the cars
and interviewed many past and present owners and drivers about
their experiences with the T70. Uniquely, this book contains the
history and specification - where known - of each individual T70
chassis.Available again after an absence of several years, this
book is the definitive development and racing history of the Lola
T70.
The stories of Monza and Formula 1 are inseparable, two examples of
motor sport par excellence that come together once a year, cross
each other's paths and bring to life pages of history rich in
fascination. In this book, enthusiasts will find accounts, but
above all the pictures covering the most significant moments in a
long journey that began way back in 1949 to reach the present day,
with the exploits of the stars of the wheel and the best single
seaters ever. To cover once again this exciting partnership is to
immerse oneself in drivers, technicians, cars and the spectators -
those of Monza are unique and incomparable - triumphs and
tragedies. Hundreds of mostly previously unpublished pictures in
colour and black and white comprise the structure of this volume,
which just has to be in the libraries of all Formula 1 enthusiasts.
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.
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