Against Death and Time: One Fatal Season in Racing's Glory Years
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (786 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1560257709 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly In this engaging history, racing journalist Yates narrates one of professional sports car racing's worst years, 1955. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. In a time before fairly rigorous safety standards for racing cars—roll bars were just coming into use, there were no seat belts but primitive safety harnesses—and no safety standards for racing tracks, race car drivers raced for the thrill of speed with a gritty competitive spirit unparalleled in today's sport. Vukovich's death begins a season of carnage at tracks around the world, including the deaths of over 100 spectators at Le Mans when several cars crashed, throwing steel and tire debris into the crowd. . Yates, editor-at-large for Car and Driver magazine, chronicles the colorful cast of characters who filled the straightawa
Against Death and Time chronicles one fatal season in the post-war glory years of racecar driving. He has published widely, from Playboy to the Wall Street Journal, and has appeared on every major television network as a racing and automotive industry commentator. Brock integrates unexpected and fascinating detail into this character-driven story of men compelled to compete against themselves, time, and death. It is the story of the dispossessed young men who raced for "the sheer unvarnished hell of it." Yates has been writing for Car and Driver for more than thirty years and is one of the best-known people in the racing world. His strategy of a fictional narrator observing, interrogating, and reporting on Brock's real-life protagonists imparts the immediacy of fiction to this minutely accurate account. He raced his own car for a season in a Plimpton-like adve
"Five Stars" according to Amazon Customer. Great item and fast shipping.. Against Death and Time L. Mclerran This could have been a GOOD book? There are many good parts to the book, but it wonders, isn't connective and supplies a complete chapter on a personal novel, not racing. It could also do without the author's escapades! To bad it couldn't have been more directed toward some of those Great Drives of the time. Many, including those pictured on the cover are left OUT!. "Name Dropping" according to J. Gangloff. 2/Name Dropping 2/3 of the book was devoted to Bill Vukovich which was tolerable. The other third was about the 1955 LeMans race and James Dean. It seemed that Yates would frequently concoct situations to have everything fit together. By the end of the book his constant name dropping got to be too much and I skipped through the last Name Dropping J. Gangloff 2/3 of the book was devoted to Bill Vukovich which was tolerable. The other third was about the 1955 LeMans race and James Dean. It seemed that Yates would frequently concoct situations to have everything fit together. By the end of the book his constant name dropping got to be too much and I skipped through the last 40 pages in about a half an hour.. 0 pages in about a half an hour.. of the book was devoted to Bill Vukovich which was tolerable. The other third was about the 1955 LeMans race and James Dean. It seemed that Yates would frequently concoct situations to have everything fit together. By the end of the book his constant name dropping got to be too much and I skipped through the last Name Dropping J. Gangloff 2/3 of the book was devoted to Bill Vukovich which was tolerable. The other third was about the 1955 LeMans race and James Dean. It seemed that Yates would frequently concoct situations to have everything fit together. By the end of the book his constant name dropping got to be too much and I skipped through the last 40 pages in about a half an hour.. 0 pages in about a half an hour.