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Indy: The Race and Ritual of the Indianapolis 500, Second Edition

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If Indy: The Race And Ritual Of The Indianapolis 500 sounds familiar, that's because this is the second updated edition of the most famous motorsport event of all time, adding twenty-five more years of detail, racing events, and track insights in an extensive updated revision. Others books have of course been written about the sport - many weightier tomes - but none with the lore, depth and detail of INDY: The Race And Ritual Of The Indianapolis 500.

The book misses one of the all-time worst incidents on Turn 4---the 1964 tragic accident involving Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald. Reed has done wonderful research....not a very good grammatical writer but well worth buying if you like the history of the Indy 500

This book is okay. It wasn't what I thought it would be when I bought it. It focuses on the crashes on each part of the track, with the ritual of the Indy 500 talked about in a few pages. It did give a few tidbits of info on the race which I had never heard about.

It has alot of history but the Author jumps around from driver to race and back way to much and its very confusing.

I am a true lover of the Indy 500, but this book was a labor to read and made so many incidents run together, that it was hard to hold my interest? There is a tremendous amount of information, but it concentrates on the 4 turns and some of the most spectacular events happened on the straights, i.e. Bill Vukovich (1955) and Eddie Sachs, Dave McDonald (1964) to name two. If you want to know about a critical review of A to Z on the turns, I guess it "makes the grade", but one can only take so much information on people you never heard of and I've heard on most!