![]() ![]() and Sylvia WilkinsonĪlready reviewed here, the book deserves another mention because of John Paul Jr.’s remarkable story. and His Battle With Huntington’s Disease, By John Paul Jr. Buy it here.ĥ0/50 The Story of Champion Race Car Driver John Paul Jr. At $350, this ain’t cheap, but for that, you get three big books, 925 photos, over 1000 pages, a million stories and 28 years of Considine’s life. There are three volumes, all three of which slip into a single case that will make any bookshelf the envy of motorsports enthusiasts everywhere. Considine tracked down one of the boys - now men - somewhere in South America, got previously unpublished photos and gave the episode a whole page in Volume 1. The boys’ story is told in sleepless detail, including one of the youth's romance with a French local. “Round up four of your friends, you’re going to Le Mans!” They got there on Vespa scooters, found the Cunningham team, got the signboard and scootered out to the Mulsanne corner. embassy in Paris - because why not? - got patched through to the Embassy Transportation Officer, a known racing enthusiast, who called his teenage American son. My own favorite story is one year when Briggs Cunningham needed a team of signal workers to man the Mulsanne corner signboards. The vaunted Cunningham team’s unconventional signaling pit crew - 16-year old self-described Terry Andrews ![]() I can’t help it, I really love it here, it’s magnificent!’ He looped it in practice, slid off near the end of the race, but finished eighth overall and second in the IMSA class won by Newman. I said to myself, ‘ Dear Mother Mary, if I get killed here, that’s it. “Abate said, ‘I remember going down the Mulsanne, with the one wiper going, and lightning going off down at the end of the Mulsanne. Edwin Abate, an amateur from San Jose who paid 25 large to drive one of Barbour's rent-a-ride Porsche 935s in 1979, the P.L. “It's hard to choose, but I think my favorite pull quote of all was from a dentist, Dr. “It's all about the stories,” said Considine. Considine investigated, but the controversy endures to this day. But was there a third driver (which would have disqualified them?). This wound up saving them from the transmission weakness of similar Ferraris that year and lead to them winning the race. In 1965, when Masten Gregory and Jochen Rindt were paired in Luigi Chinetti's Ferrari 275 LM, the car was shod with gripless experimental Goodyear tires that had to be changed every hour. Surprise winners Masten Gregory and Jochen Rindt on the podium, their win in Chinetti’s ferrari 275 lm likely because some gripless experimental goodyear tires, changed every hour, saved them from the transmission weakness of similar ferraris that year. "Bonnier was behind me in a (Porsche) Spyder, and with all the smoke, he went off into the trees and wrecked. But what did happen is a cavalcade of riveting race reporting, wonderful anecdotes and hundreds of interesting stories I guarantee you won’t find anywhere else.Īll your favorites are in it: Phil Hill, Dan Gurney, Carroll Shelby, Bob Bondurant - even Roger Penske, who co-drove a Luigi-Chinetti-entered Ferrari with Pedro Rodriguez and who was running third up until he missed a shift coming out of Mulsanne Corner and blew the engine. ![]() ![]() Considine covers the years 1923 to 1979, and if there’s anything not in here, it probably didn’t happen. He poured 28 years of his life into this book: writing, researching and interviewing the American drivers, team owners and crew members who raced at Le Mans over almost six decades. Now, finally, their stories are told, in glorious, intricate detail by author - and sometime Autoweek contributor and famed motorsports journalist - Tim Considine. Twice Around the Clock: Yanks at Le Mans by Tim Considineįrom the first Model T at the first running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, there have always been Americans present in one capacity or another. But you can put a little card saying it’s in the mail. Imagine the look of delirious joy that will smack his or her grille when they unwrap something as interesting and car-worthy as one of these? Except for maybe the Le Mans book, which won’t be out until next year. What would make the eyeballs of your car- and race-loving special person light right up on Christmas morning? One of these here books, that’s what. ![]()
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