High Performance: Culture and Technology of Drag Racing, 1950-90 - Brossura

Post, Robert C.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0801854644 ISBN 13: 9780801854644

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

Riassunto

This text traces the history of drag racing from the earliest "legal" drag runs in rural airfields to the spectacular - and sometimes tragic - careers of drag racing's boldest innovators. The author has interviewed most of drag racing's legends and superstars such as "Pappy" Hart, who opened the first commercial strip in Santa Ana, California; Florida's "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, the first person to define himself as a professional drag racer; and Shirley Muldowney, who was nearly killed in a 250 MPH crash and returned to the cockpit two years later with the explanation, "It's what I do". The book covers all aspects of drag racing: the sport, the business and the means of personal affirmation. Most of all, the author explores it as an example of technological enthusiasm, tracking the innovation that permitted racers to disprove on pavement the "laws of physics" that experts laid out on paper.

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Recensione:

"This book will be the Bible of drag racing for future generations" -- Don Garlits

Descrizione del libro:

For those who love high drama and high-powered machinery, there is nothing to top big-time drag racing. High Performance is a dramatic, firsthand history of this daring sport.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0801854644
• ISBN 13: 9780801854644
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 448