Closing Speed: The Unabridged Edition

Mario Andretti said of Closing Speed author Ted West, "I've known Ted forever; our paths ran together for many years. He worked hard to earn the respect he gets, and I'm sure the enthusiast world will now enjoy his fiction."

One of racing's "young lions," Ted West used his keen sense of observation and his immense writing talent to define the endurance racing war between Porsche's 917 and the Ferrari 512 immortalized in Steve McQueen's Le Mans.

Sent to Europe by Road & Track in 1970 at age 27...