S-1672
Price: $39.95
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500 on (the INDY) 500:
Tales, Facts and
Figures on
"The Greatest Race in the World"
by Rick Shaffer
Foreword by Helio Castroneves
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Why is the Indianapolis Motor Speedway 2.5 miles around instead
of five miles?
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Who was an Indy race winner before Ray Harroun?
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What driver had to take a streetcar home to inform his parents
he had just won the Indy 500?
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How was the starting lineup determined in the years before the
cars were qualified?
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Have there always been 33 starters?
Whether the distant past or modern times serves as a lure for "The
Greatest Race in the World," there are literally hundreds of
fascinating, true Indy 500 tales, facts and figures.
One of
the race's most-respected journalists, Rick Shaffer, has gathered
500 of the most interesting anecdotes to come out of the
intersection of 16th Street and Georgetown Road.
500 on (the Indy) 500 chronicles the
famous from Chevrolet to Andretti, the obscure from William Borque
(item #10, the track's first driver fatality) to Simon Pagenaud
(#496), winner 105 years after the last Frenchman to do so.
The ultimate race chronology, this book is for the curious, the
scholar, the passing fan or the diehard. The depth of research is
sure to entertain and illuminate aspects of the Indy 500 new to even
many Indy devotees.
Hard cover, 200 color and B&W images,
280 pages.
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S-1287
Original Price: $125.00
Now: $29.95
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Fabulous Fifties:
American Championship
Racing
by Dick Wallen
with Foreword by Champion Rodger Ward
Fabulous Fifties: American Championship Racing
is packed with hundreds of vintage photos and championship results
and includes a host of great first-hand stories about the era's
prominent drivers, mechanics, builders, promoters, and owners.
With box scores and statistics of all the
National Championship races throughout the 1950s, this fine book
chronicles the formative years of
America's post-war National Championship, when
very brave and very tough young men vied for victory on a host of
dirt ovals and Indianapolis,
with little more than an inexpensive helmet to protect themselves.
Hard cover, 576 pages.
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