CARS AT SPEED - The Golden Years of Grand Prix Racing

by Robert Daley

Overview

Grand Prix racing on public roads: trees, walls, fences, houses. Racing in the 50's and 60's meant circuits like Spa, Monza, Nurburgring. They were dangerous places, and the racing was deadly dangerous. The driver who went off the road, and many did go off the road, most likely paid a heavy price. So did many spectators. It was a time of heroes, of drivers larger than life: of the Englishmen like Moss, Collins, Hawthorn, Graham Hill, who for a few years seemed to take over the sport; of the flamboyant Marquis de Portago of Spain and the nervous German, Count Von Trips; of Musso, Ascari and Castellotti, each one the pride of Italy, all of them dead at the wheel; of Phil Hill, the quiet, some said sullen, American who became world champion.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015707823
Publisher:	Riviera Productions Ltd.
Publication date:	09/18/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	912,987
File size:	241 KB

About the Author

Robert Daley, the author of 17 novels and 11 non-fiction books, began his career as the New York Times sports correspondent in Europe. For seven seasons he went everywhere the fast cars went, and most of his descriptions of circuits, drivers and races in CARS AT SPEED, from Sebring to the Nurburgring, from Portago to Phil Hill are the result of first hand observation and knowledge. He also studied the past, and stories from those years are included wherever they impinged upon the present. After leaving the New York Times he began a successful freelance career. His books, both fiction and non-fiction, took him into many other frenetic, sometimes dangerous worlds from Thailand to New York, from treasure diving off Florida to the coca plantations of Bolivia.

Editorial Reviews

“The mystique of the most dangerous of all the games men play…a compelling book and an informative one…probably the best introduction in English to a cruel, hideously dangerous sport.”

The New York Times - Ken Purdy