This Is Indy

Author : James Craig Reinhardt
Publisher : Red Lightning Books
ISBN 13 : 168435076X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indianapolis 500 written by James Craig Reinhardt and published by Red Lightning Books. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing," the Indy 500 humbly began in 1911. Labeled as the first speedway, this two-and-a-half-mile oval is now home to many of today's top races, including the Brickyard 400, the Verizon IndyCar Series, the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, the SportsCar Vintage Racing Association, the Red Bull Air Race World Championship, and its most famous race, the Indianapolis 500. In The Indianapolis 500: Inside the Greatest Spectacle in Racing, speedway tour guide and racing afficionado James Craig Reinhardt shares what makes the legendary racetrack special. He reveals the speedway's unbelievable history, fast-flying action, notorious moments, and its secrets, including facts about the beginning of the brickyard, why the drivers kiss the finish line, how milk became the drink of choice, and much more. The perfect gift for the veteran or rookie, The Indianapolis 500 is a must-have for all race fans.

Author : D. Bruce Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976614906
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indy written by D. Bruce Scott and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ross R.Olney
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329531388
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This is Indy! written by Ross R.Olney and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indianapolis Speedway Race is the most exciting one of all, held on the largest track in America, with the most in-attendance fans, and the largest TV audience of any sporting event anywhere, anytime. It is a dangerous, challenging race that is the most important one of all to win for the drivers. If you win at Indy, your future is assured. You are famous. You will get sponsors and you will be paid to advertise products. An Indy winner is set for life in this sport. Fans know this, and cheer on their favorite drivers. But this race is dangerous, and many drivers have lost their lives attempting to win at Indy. They seem somehow to go "over the line" at Indy, as Rick Mears does in this book, in an effort to win. Real fans want them to try harder and harder to win, but real fans don't want any driver or spectator to be hurt, or worse. So real fans cheer when Mears goes high into dangerous territory on the track, rather than low where the risk is less. Every fan should see this race in person at least once.

Author : Chris Workman
Publisher : Apex Legends
ISBN 13 : 9780996286954
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectacle written by Chris Workman and published by Apex Legends. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A century's worth of legendary drivers, race cars and Indy 500 race action at 'The Brickyard' are covered in this easy-to-follow, illustrated picture book"--Back cover.

Author : Charles Leerhsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439149054
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood and Smoke written by Charles Leerhsen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years ago, 40 cars lined up for the first Indianapolis 500. We are still waiting to find out who won. The Indy 500 was created to showcase the controversial new sport of automobile racing, which was sweeping the country. Daring young men were driving automobiles at the astonishing speed of 75 miles per hour, testing themselves and their vehicles. With no seat belts, hard helmets or roll bars, the dangers were enormous. When the Indianapolis Motor Speedway opened in 1909, seven people were killed, some of them spectators. Oil-slicked surfaces, clouds of smoke, exploding tires, and flying grit all made driving extremely hazardous, especially with the open-cockpit, windshield-less vehicles. Bookmakers offered bets not only on who might win but who might survive. But this book is about more than a race--it is the story of America at the dawn of the automobile age, a country in love with speed, danger, and spectacle.--From publisher description.

Author : Tom Carnegie
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 : 9780070506046
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indy 500 written by Tom Carnegie and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1986 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the cars, events, winners, and losers of the world's fastest and richest automobile race

Author : Charlie Griffin
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 1662915292
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indy and Jenny written by Charlie Griffin and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heart-warming and thoughtfully illustrated children's picture book tells a true story of resilience, perseverance, and the power of empathy that is certain to touch young readers. This is a story about how Indy, a pit bull is rescued, and in the meantime it was the quiet and gentle presence of Jenny, and the bond she formed with Indy that transformed their lives forever. This is a story about the power of community, the capacity for recovery, and the healing heart of unconditional love. This is his true story and includes photographs of Jenny, and Indy, bow-tie and all! To learn more about Indy and Jenny's journey, and for helpful detailed discussion, please visit indyandjenny.com Ages 5-10

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597253055
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Years, 500 Miles written by and published by . This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Art Garner
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250017785
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Noon: The Year They Stopped the Indy 500 written by Art Garner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2014 Dean Batchelor Award, Motor Press Guild "Book of the Year" Before noon on May 30th, 1964, the Indy 500 was stopped for the first time in history by an accident. Seven cars had crashed in a fiery wreck, killing two drivers, and threatening the very future of the 500. Black Noon chronicles one of the darkest and most important days in auto-racing history. As rookie Dave MacDonald came out of the fourth turn and onto the front stretch at the end of the second lap, he found his rear-engine car lifted by the turbulence kicked up from two cars he was attempting to pass. With limited steering input, MacDonald lost control of his car and careened off the inside wall of the track, exploding into a huge fireball and sliding back into oncoming traffic. Closing fast was affable fan favorite Eddie Sachs. "The Clown Prince of Racing" hit MacDonald's sliding car broadside, setting off a second explosion that killed Sachs instantly. MacDonald, pulled from the wreckage, died two hours later. After the track was cleared and the race restarted, it was legend A. J. Foyt who raced to a decisive, if hollow, victory. Torn between elation and horror, Foyt, along with others, championed stricter safety regulations, including mandatory pit stops, limiting the amount a fuel a car could carry, and minimum-weight standards. In this tight, fast-paced narrative, Art Garner brings to life the bygone era when drivers lived hard, raced hard, and at times died hard. Drawing from interviews, Garner expertly reconstructs the fateful events and decisions leading up to the sport's blackest day, and the incriminating aftermath that forever altered the sport. Black Noon remembers the race that changed everything and the men that paved the way for the Golden Age of Indy car racing.

Author : Jack Arute
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781582617275
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack Arute's Tales from the Indy 500 written by Jack Arute and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular ABC Sports' pit reporter relates the greatest, funniest, and most meaningful stories acquired through his years of covering the Indianapolis 500, from his initial fear of approaching A.J. Foyt in the garage as a cub reporter to waiting out Gil de Ferran's tears after he won the 87th running of the race.