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The Golden Age of Speedway

Author : Philip Dalling
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752494619
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Speedway written by Philip Dalling and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The post-war era was British speedway’s golden age. Ten million spectators passed through the turnstiles of a record number of tracks at the sport’s peak. With league gates as high as 80,000, speedway offered a colourful means of escape from the grim austerity of the times.A determinedly clean image, with no betting and rival fans mingling on the terraces, made speedway the family night out of choice. The sport thrived despite punitive taxation and Government threats to close down the speedways as a threat to industrial productivity.A three-division National League stretched from Exeter to Edinburgh and the World Championship Final attracted a capacity audience to Wembley. Test matches against Australia provided yet another international dimension.Even at the height of its popularity, speedway was a sporting edifice built on unstable foundations, which crumbled alarmingly as the 1950s dawned and Britain’s economic and social recovery brought competing attractions like television.

The Golden Age of the American Racing Car

Author : Griffith Borgeson
Publisher : SAE International
ISBN 13 : 0768046831
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of the American Racing Car written by Griffith Borgeson and published by SAE International. This book was released on 1998-12-12 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A best seller and winner of the Antique Automobile Club of America's prestigious Thomas McKean Award.The Golden Age of the American Racing Car emphasizes the human side of racing history, offering insight into the men who shaped the golden age. Covering a period of time from the 1910s through the 1930s, the book describes the historical development of race car technology and presents fascinating information on race courses, designers, builders, drivers, and events. Racing pioneers covered include: Fred Duesenberg, Louis Chevrolet, Harry Miller, Leo Goossen, and Fred Offenhauser.

The Golden Age of Wisconsin Auto Racing

Author : Dale Grubba
Publisher : Badger Books Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781878569677
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Wisconsin Auto Racing written by Dale Grubba and published by Badger Books Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text highlights races and drivers from the glorious racing days at Wisconsin's short tracks.

Grand National: America's Golden Age of Motorcycle Racing

Author : Joe Scalzo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610609425
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Grand National: America's Golden Age of Motorcycle Racing written by Joe Scalzo and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the American Motorcyclist Association's Grand National series, one of the most unique, challenging and exciting motorcycle racing series' on the planet.

The Golden Days of Thompson Speedway and Raceway

Author : Terry O'Neil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781854432988
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Days of Thompson Speedway and Raceway written by Terry O'Neil and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

50 Golden Years of Speedway

Author : Dave Lanning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780855430078
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book 50 Golden Years of Speedway written by Dave Lanning and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Little Bit Sideways

Author : Scott Huler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781642340297
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Little Bit Sideways written by Scott Huler and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a rip-roaring ride into the glory years of NASCAR as you travel with the team not only behind the wheel and in the pits at the track but also to the cocktail parties, broadcast booth and beyond. With unfettered access, award-winning author Scott Huler explored the inner workings of a stock car racing team. His insightful, colorful text takes you back to the days when Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt, and more were battling for supremacy. This insider view follows the always colorful Kenny Wallace as he and his Square D team win and lose on-track battles at Richmond and Charlotte. This dynamic book explores the inner workings of the greatest era in NASCAR racing. Take a wild ride down memory lane--any race fan who remembers the days when stock car racing was king will love A Little Bit Sideways.

Rodger Ward

Author : Mike O'Leary
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 0760321779
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Rodger Ward written by Mike O'Leary and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2006-10-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kansas-born Rodger Ward was a P-38 fighter pilot in World War II, then made his name in racing by starring on the budding Southern California sprint car scene. He raced from 1948 - 1966 and he was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1992. This work embodies the post-war era of open wheel racing in the US.

Classic Speedway Venues

Author : Philip Dalling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857042125
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Classic Speedway Venues written by Philip Dalling and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a highly personal and richly illustrated exploration of more than 50 highly individual homes of speedway, including all of the UK's current tracks and a selection of iconic venues from the past. For the author, and thousands of others, these speedway tracks really do have the promise of Cinder Heaven.

Saving Speedway

Author : PHILIP. DALLING
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857043481
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Saving Speedway written by PHILIP. DALLING and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saving Speedway tells how the road to recovery began when a small group of men of vision re-opened long-closed venues and then, in 1960, formed a new competition, the Provincial League, which doubled the number of speedway venues overnight and eventually led to a new Golden Age for the sport.

The Golden Age of Sports Cars

Author : Louis William Steinwedel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801956911
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Sports Cars written by Louis William Steinwedel and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Speed Capital

Author : Brian M. Ingrassia
Publisher : Sport and Society
ISBN 13 : 9780252087660
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Speed Capital written by Brian M. Ingrassia and published by Sport and Society. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a speedway became a legendary sports site and sparked America's car culture The 1909 opening of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway marked a foundational moment in the history of automotive racing. Events at the famed track and others like it also helped launch America's love affair with cars and an embrace of road systems that transformed cities and shrank perceptions of space. Brian Ingrassia tells the story of the legendary oval's early decades. This story revolves around Speedway cofounder and visionary businessman Carl Graham Fisher, whose leadership in the building of the transcontinental Lincoln Highway and the iconic Dixie Highway had an enormous impact on American mobility. Ingrassia looks at the Speedway's history as a testing ground for cars and airplanes, its multiple close brushes with demolition, and the process by which racing became an essential part of the Golden Age of Sports. At the same time, he explores how the track's past reveals the potent links between sports capitalism and the selling of nostalgia, tradition, and racing legends.

Cars at Speed

Author : Robert Daley
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 9780760331170
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Cars at Speed written by Robert Daley and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before he became a best-selling novelist, Robert Daley was a European sports correspondent for the New York Times. In 1961, he published his first book, Cars At Speed, an historical and contemporary look at Grand Prix and sports car racing at twelve of the worlds greatest circuits. This hard-to-find and now collectible book, widely considered one of the best books ever written about sports car racing, returns here in a special edition, with a new Introduction by Daley as well as commissioned drawings of each featured circuit. A rare opportunity to travel back in time to racings golden era, Cars at Speed offers a fascinating look at a time when danger and passion defined racing. Daley discusses the Grand Prix circuits of that era--e.g., Nu00fcrburgring, Monza, Silverstone, Zandvoort, Spa, Monaco--detailing the qualities, history, great races, controversies, and accidents of each. He focuses on the stories of drivers such as the Marquis de Portago, Phil Hill, Stirling Moss, and Jean Behra, among others, recreating the mythical quality of the Grand Prix in its prime.

SPENCER SPEEDWAY LEGENDS 1957-1977

Author : Len Kasper
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480973661
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book SPENCER SPEEDWAY LEGENDS 1957-1977 written by Len Kasper and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPENCER SPEEDWAY LEGENDS 1957-1977 by Len Kasper SPENCER SPEEDWAY LEGENDS 1957-1977 was written using notes and journals kept by the author, and it tells an in-depth chronology of a racetrack in a suburb of Rochester, New York, over a twenty-year period. The storyline follows the drivers, owners, promoters, officials, and race crews that made this incredible history possible. It includes a multitude of behind-the-scenes information and personal stories with rare photographs from the author and from the racing families themselves. For those who lived through the period, it is a nostalgic trip back in time. For others, it will be a compelling journey through time where local tracks were evolving from jalopy tracks to professional racing circuits, and their drivers rose to national prominence.

The Race at Harewood

Author : Kean Soo
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1434296393
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book The Race at Harewood written by Kean Soo and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: March the Hare enters into his very first professional race at Harewood Speedway.

No Breaks

Author : Roddy McDougall
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1785319299
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book No Breaks written by Roddy McDougall and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Breaks: A Lost Season in British Speedway is a story of survival. Once the country's second most popular sport, filling Wembley Stadium for meetings, speedway now gets by on crowds numbered in the hundreds. It's been banished to industrial estates in towns like Redcar and Scunthorpe and generally forgotten by the mainstream media. And yet, going into 2020, things were looking up: several star riders were returning to race in Britain for the first time in years and a new, long-term TV contract was in place. Then the coronavirus lockdown happened, cancelling the league season and threatening the sport's very existence. Starting in September 2019, No Breaks hears from those who earn a living from speedway - the riders - and those who continue to keep it alive against the odds: the promoters and fans. Month by month, the book explores British speedway's current health - itself a reflection of wider society - while shining a much-needed light on many compelling and positive stories.

Both Sides of the Fence

Author : Reg Fearman
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075096099X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Both Sides of the Fence written by Reg Fearman and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Reg Fearman is the man who knows all of speedway's secrets ... and is prepared to reveal them. He has taken a unique, full-throttle, white-knuckle ride to the top as an international rider, a world-class team manager, a successful promoter and a formidable administrator. He has never ducked a confrontation, on or off the speedway track; he knows the glamorous and the murky side of a tough, fabulously exciting and sometimes cruel sport, and he spares no one's blushes ... not even his own' - John Chaplin, speedway's leading historian 'From humble origins in London's East End, this is the story of how Reg Fearman became a local hero with West Ham, the cockney giants of speedway, and went on to represent his country, first as a rider at the tender age of 17, and then as an international manager. A captivating mixture of sporting achievement, politics and business and social history, it also looks at how speedway was resurrected from the doldrums of the late 1950s and dragged into a new 'Jet Age' golden era, a time which paved the way for the heights that the sport has enjoyed in the twenty-first century as a global phenomenon. Including a plethora of untold truths, revelations and a rich treasure trove of photographs, Reg lays bare for the first time the sensational inside story of the resurrection of speedway ... warts and all!' - Dr Brian Belton, JP and author