For everyone who's ever wanted to know what it's really like to get behind the wheel of a racecar, automotive enthusiast Brock Yates lived the dream, and lived to tell about it. You'll smell the fumes and feel the heat rising from the track as Brock takes the reader through a refresher course at Bob Bondurant's high-performance driving school, then off to Watkins Glen, Michigan Motor Speedway, and across the country on an unsanctioned, hair-raising thirty-six-hour race from New York to Los Angeles. Sunday Driver is the perfect companion for anyone who has felt the need for speed, or just marveled as they watched their favorite driver race around the track at death-defying speed and wondered what it would feel like to be in the driver's seat.
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The most read book of all in my bookshelf.,
By Arne Lindgren (Stockholm Sweden) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sunday driver, (Hardcover)
As a club racer this book has inspired me the most. The insight (as far as I know) of racing, the people and the stress of a racing driver alone in the car is exact. This book covers one racers career from racing school to a couple of pro Trans-Am races. And the chapter of the first race as a mechanic for a new Trans-Am team is a must to read for every aspiring race car owner (/driver). The chapter on the 'fair' test of the 70's musclecars is a good insight into how to bend rules. Reprint it, my copy is falling apart.
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Classic Yates,
By Mulsane (Northern VA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sunday Driver: The Writer Meets the Road--at 175 MPH (Paperback)
If you love Yates, you won't be disappointed. A sort of early 70's Plimptonian view of the American road racing scene. Culminates with a chapter long account of the famous Dan Gurney/Brock Yates Cannonball Baker run in a Ferrari Daytona....cleverly disguised as a race car. Must read stuff. The account of a State Trooper asking how fast will that thing go? after a lengthy high speed chase... followed by Gurney asking.. well how fast will it go? once back on the road.... 172 was the answer... which prompted Gurney to quip afterwards that they never went over 175 the whole time... If you have a drop of motor oil in your veins, this is you're kind of book. Get it, read it...you'll enjoy it.
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One of the shortest reads of my life!,
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This review is from: Sunday Driver: The Writer Meets the Road--at 175 MPH (Paperback)
Not only because the pages kept coming at almost the same pace as the author (sounds clichéd, but it really was a very fast paced book and seemed I read it in no-time!), but also because I had a real blast learning the details on every car he jumped in.
Mainly, it tells the story of how a motoring journalist that could barely drive at the beggining of the book, took some proper driving lessons at a racetrack, did some amateur races, and how he eventually struggled to race in the very competitive TransAm series in a top private team. He never quite cuts it as a racer, but just being there as a co-pilot is a real joy to read, specially when you see that this is not political correctness at all costs, and the guy simply says what he thinks spontaneously. Like for instance, when he retires with a car that hasn't been properly reapaired (or at least that's what he feels) and after one promoter likes to have a go and do some laps in the car, the author hopes that the promoter never goes nearly as fast as he did. This makes for a very honest and fresh (by today's standards) read. Finally, the writer ends the book by becoming a car-nut hero to many by winning (co-driving with American driving legend, Dan Gurney) the first edition of the Cannonball race. The Cannonball race is only a small epilogue or rather, a nice introduction to Yates' following book of this (in)famously named race.
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bootleg turn, pit lane, helmet bag, driving suit, race driver, starting grid, technical inspection, few laps, racing tires, sway bars, pit wall Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Watkins Glen, New York, Bud Moore, Mark Donohue, United States, Los Angeles, Moon Trash, Dan Gurney, Grand Prix, Holiday Inn, Dave Hoselton, Grand National, Cannonball Baker, George Follmer, Long Island, Mario Andretti, Warren Agor, Bill Shaw, Bruce Johnson, Coralei Hoselton, Jerry Breon, Mike Tillson, Parnelli Jones, Swede Savage, West Coast New!
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The helmet bag does it every time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bootleg turn, pit lane, helmet bag, driving suit, race driver, starting grid, technical inspection, few laps, racing tires, sway bars, pit wall Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Watkins Glen, New York, Bud Moore, Mark Donohue, United States, Los Angeles, Moon Trash, Dan Gurney, Grand Prix, Holiday Inn, Dave Hoselton, Grand National, Cannonball Baker, George Follmer, Long Island, Mario Andretti, Warren Agor, Bill Shaw, Bruce Johnson, Coralei Hoselton, Jerry Breon, Mike Tillson, Parnelli Jones, Swede Savage, West Coast New!
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- South Carolina (Gousha Fastmap) by Don Wood on page 102
- Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback by George Plimpton in Front Matter
- Holiday Inn by Debra Dier on page 32
- The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa on page 11
- Cannonball!: World's Greatest Outlaw Road Race by Brock Yates on page 31, page 128, and page 154
- The Indy Five Hundred: An American Institution Under Fire by Ron Dorson in Back Matter
- Outlaw Machine: Harley Davidson and the Search for the American Soul by Brock Yates in Front Matter
- The Critical Path: Inventing an Automobile and Reinventing a Corporation by Brock W. Yates in Front Matter
- Against Death and Time: One Fatal Season in Racing's Glory Years by Brock Yates in Front Matter
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