Longtime Fox Sports broadcaster and NASCAR prerace show host Chris Myers demonstrates that racing embodies the best of what makes America great: our competitive spirit; our will to win; our love of pageantry, heroes, and tradition; our willingness to face risks and build for the future. This unique book is a love letter to the NASCAR community -- from an outsider turned insider who "gets" what NASCAR fans and the world of NASCAR is all about. NASCAR has been slighted in the mainstream medi...

Judge Knott, a determined teenager, has known only misery at the orphanage under the cruel watch of Mrs. Stiddums and Ms. Himhim. Life changes dramatically when he’s invited to Race Island — Be’Gaydon city — where the stakes are as high as the city’s treacherous, transforming streets that become racecourses.Be’Gaydon is divided into five sections with twelve neighborhoods, each home to a fierce IronClub. These clubs compete in relentless races and brutal challenges, not just for gl...

Ten for the Road gives you a mix of travel and adventure stories and observations drawn from my many years of motorcycle jaunts throughout the United States and Canada to popular destinations and rides down roads less traveled.Even if you don't ride a motorcycle, you'll finds plenty of travel information, adventure stories and lots more to enjoy in this book.Experience with me…Visit Woodstock decades after the summer of 1969…View Bannerman Ca...

Full Length New Adult Racing Romance NovelCarrie Zane knows loss. She knows heartache. She knows never to trust.As a trauma nurse with a passion for speed, powerful engines, and hot racers with big egos, she's in heaven working for the speedways first responder unit. But after she experiences a loss so great that it rips her heart to pieces and leaves it burning on the asphalt, she swears she will never fall in love again.She'd be a fool to put her heart on the line...

Duncan Hamilton won the classic Le Mans 24-Hours race in 1953, co-driving his works entered C-Type Jaguar with Tony Rolt. In 1954 the same pair finished second, losing to a much larger-engined V12 Ferrari and by the narrowest margin in years. In all, Duncan Hamilton competed in nine of those great Le Mans endurance classics.Having cut his racing teeth in such pre-war cars as the R-Type M.G. and the Bugatti Type 35B, Duncan graduated to one of the immortal Lago-Talbot Grand Prix cars - whic...

Run over the every-day roads of the Isle of Man for over 100 years, the world-famous Tourist Trophy races have gripped the imaginations of successive generations of motorcyclists. From the earliest days of single-speed, belt-driven machines delivering 5 bhp, to the highly developed projectiles of today offering a fearsome 200 bhp, race fans have thronged the roadside banks and watched in awe as the best racing motorcyclists in the world rode the fastest machines of their day around the twi...

This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality amazing images produced by a series of today's top professional photographers. Enjoy and be inspired!

"100 of the" series books brings you yet another exciting book on the 100 of The Coolest Concept Cars 2013. Read this book and many other 100 of the Best, Most, Ugliest, Top, Coolest and more books.

Hang around bikers long enough and theyll all tell you things dont always go as planned. That is proved over and over again in this collection of tales told by journalist and motorcyclist C.G. Masi.Join Masi and his band of merry bikers as they try their best to have good, clean fun while riding from Point A to Point B. Its all crammed into five road trips taken during the late 1980s and early 1990s.As they set out on their adventures, the friends have big dreams about maki...

The story of one of New Zealand's most successful manufacturers and exporters. Robert Stewart may have been born into a successful manufacturing family, but he had to set up his own company the hard way, using his own money, resourcefulness, courage, stamina, street smarts and creativity. There were tough times when he almost went to the wall, but today SKOPE Industries is one of New Zealand's leading manufacturers and exporters. You will find its world-beating refrigerati...

Rarely do we get a chance to capture the history of our automotive passion in words and pictures that are insightful and, very often, magic. Rarely do we get an incisive behind-the-scenes look into the lives of our heroes, an insightful examination of the toys that bring us joy, and a critical scrutiny demanded of an industry rife with scoundrels and hooligans. Rarely, yes, but it does happen. Leon Mandel's The Jaundiced Eye captures the essence of a life spent around the people, places, a...

The definitive life story of the seventies world 500cc motorcycle champion Barry Sheene – the Brit whose death-defying crashes and playboy lifestyle made him the most famous bike racer on the planet. Written by the only journalist to have ridden on the roads with him, and featuring interviews with closest friends, team mates and former rivals.Born in London's East End in 1950, Sheene was introduced to motor sport at the age of five, with his father Frank building him his first ever...