The Winning Cars Of The Indianapolis 500

Author : James Craig Reinhardt
Publisher : Red Lightning Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781684350728

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The Winning Cars of the Indianapolis 500 by James Craig Reinhardt Pdf

At speeds of over 230 miles per hour, the Indy open-wheel race cars set the bar for American Championship car racing. For over 100 years, the Indy cars and their drivers have drawn hundreds of thousands of spectators to Speedway, Indiana, with another 6 million people watching the race on television or by live stream. In The Winning Cars of the Indianapolis 500, James Craig Reinhardt, author and official tour guide for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, details the history of the famous race and how the open-wheel race cars have evolved over the last century. Starting in 1911 with the first running of the Indy 500, Reinhardt profiles each race and car, including the starting position, engine, tires, race speed, margin of victory, and much more. Featuring nearly 200 images of the automobiles and individuals who make the race renowned, this book showcases the top drivers and how racing has changed through two world wars, the Great Depression, and unforgettable accidents. This beautifully illustrated book is a must-have for veteran and rookie race fans alike.

Author : James Craig Reinhardt
Publisher : Red Lightning Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781684350766

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The Indianapolis 500 by James Craig Reinhardt Pdf

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 : Mark Dill
Publisher : BookBaby
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781098335168

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The Legend of the First Super Speedway by Mark Dill Pdf

"The Legend of the First Super Speedway," is a gritty tale punctuated by humor that chronicles the hero's journey through the pioneering age of American auto racing. It is a factual, previously untold story that must be read for a thorough understanding of auto racing history.

Author : Ian Wagstaff
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781845842468

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The British at Indianapolis by Ian Wagstaff Pdf

The British at Indianapolis recounts the history of the Indianapolis 500 race through the eyes and actions of those British born or British citizens who have driven in it, or been involved in any other way – be it as a designer, mechanic, or official. It also examines the British built cars that have won the Indy 500 and the significance of the rear engined revolution brought to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway by Cooper in 1961, and elevated to success by Lotus and Lola. It includes such names as Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Nigel Mansell and 2010 Indy 500 champion, and two times winner, Dario Franchitti.

Author : Janet Piehl
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822565666

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Indy Race Cars by Janet Piehl Pdf

Describes Indy race cars and traces the history of the Indianapolis 500 race.

Author : Charles Leerhsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439149058

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Blood and Smoke by Charles Leerhsen Pdf

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 : Bill Holder,William G. Holder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Automobiles, Racing
ISBN : 0861247418

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The History of the Indy 500 by Bill Holder,William G. Holder Pdf

Author : Art Garner
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781250017789

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Black Noon: The Year They Stopped the Indy 500 by Art Garner Pdf

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 : Nancy Roe Pimm
Publisher : Darby Creek
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1581960212

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Indy 500 by Nancy Roe Pimm Pdf

Every year the world's greatest athletes compete in events that crown a champion. In baseball, it's the World Series. In football, it's the Super Bowl. In soccer, it's the World Cup. For auto-racing athletes, it's the Indianapolis 500. Every May, drivers from all over the world come to race in the Indy 500. They push themselves and their cars for 200 laps at more than 200 miles per hour. These men and women take sharp turns, fly down straightaways, make pit stops, and zigzag for position. At the end of the day, one car--one driver--will take the checkered flag. Only one can be the Indy 500 Champion! Take a spin in the fast lane--the inside track--to find out about the Indy 500!

Author : Pat Kennedy
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781728348407

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Indy 500 Recaps by Pat Kennedy Pdf

This book started as a self-serving exercise to personally organize the major details and interesting facts of each Indianapolis 500 over the hundred-plus-year history of the greatest race in the world. For many of us passionate racing fans who have attended a multitude of 500s, there is a tendency for the details of the races to (somewhat) blend together. I hope this book will help to provide clarity in this regard as well as educate. During high school, many of us chose to use CliffsNotes to assist in the education process. This book is somewhat patterned after that concept. It falls somewhere between Donald Davidson and Rick Schaffer—the best and by far the most detailed book on the history of the Indianapolis 500—and a multitude of pictorial books with limited information. I hope it will prove to be an easy read with entertaining and educational information.

Author : Terry Reed
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781597973915

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Indy by Terry Reed Pdf

In a nation that worships the automobile for the freedom, style, and status that it confers, the Indianapolis 500, run on or near Memorial Day eighty-seven times, is an annual rite of passage celebrating Americans' love affair with speed. Indy recounts the drivers (677 men and 3 women) who have gone to Indianapolis in the past ninety-five years to live their dreams, staking their lives on the outcome. It highlights the faces in the crowd: hardworking Americans, tinhorn celebrities, hookers, movie stars, gate-crashers, and five American presidents. Terry Reed focuses his narrative on the track's four quarter-mile-long turns, each the site of triumphs (including those of such multiple winners as Billy Vukovich, A. J. Foyt, and Helio Castroneves); grisly deaths (at least sixty-six, including three unrelated men of the same unusual last name who died in the same turn but in different decades); and bizarre heroics (like the sans souci French driver who downed champagne throughout the 1913 Indy 500 and still won). Reed also examines Indy's confluence of racing and aeronautics (World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker once owned the track) and the impact upon the event of such forces as segregation, gender politics, food, fads, publicity stunts, world-class partying, and tasteless pop culture. Indy takes readers on an entertaining, full-throttle ride through the history of one of the world's most famous races and one of America's most hallowed rituals. It is the definitive account of the crown jewel of American motorsports.

Author : Michael Dregni
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1560652055

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The Indianapolis 500 by Michael Dregni Pdf

A look at the Indianapolis 500, the Super Bowl of auto racing.

Author : Sigur E. Whitaker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786498321

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The Indy Car Wars by Sigur E. Whitaker Pdf

The world of Champ Car auto racing was changing in the 1970s. As cars became more sophisticated, the cost of supporting a team had skyrocketed, making things difficult for team owners. In an effort to increase purses paid by racing promoters and win lucrative television contracts, a group of owners formed Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) in 1978. Soon after, CART split from its sanctioning body, the United States Auto Club (USAC). Though Champ Cars ran on numerous tracks, the Indianapolis 500 was the payday that supported most teams through the season. From the beginning, CART had most of the successful teams and popular drivers, and they focused on driving a wedge between the track owners and the USAC. Over the next 30 years, the tension between CART and USAC ebbed and flowed until all parties realized that reunification was needed for the sake of the sport. This book details the fight over control of Champ Car racing before reunification in 2008.

Author : P.K. Daniel
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781629684499

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IndyCar Racing by P.K. Daniel Pdf

The Indianapolis 500, otherwise known as The Greatest Spectacle in Racing, features open-wheeled cars and talented drivers. This title takes a close look at the history, the vehicles, the events, and the stars who make IndyCar racing unique. Complete with informative sidebars, a photo diagram, and much more. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Ralph Kramer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781440217586

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The Indianapolis 500 by Ralph Kramer Pdf

The Greatest Spectacle in Racing Since the dawn of automotive racing, the world's best drivers have tested their skills, bravery and the limits of speed in the legendary Indianapolis 500. The winner claims the historic Borg-Warner Trophy, and racing immortality. Officially licensed in cooperation with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis 500: A Century of Excitement tells the compelling and entertaining story of the race that has become known as simply "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing." Overflowing with photographs hand-picked from the Speedway's mammoth photo archives, and filled with historic, behind-the-scene stories, you'll revel in the history that has shaped this amazing event.