Thirty Days in May: The Day-By-Day Drama of the 1970 Indy 500 Higdon Hal
Thirty days! From the moment the drivers entered in the 1970 Indianapolis 500 rolled their cars onto the track for practice until the command "Gentlemen, start your engines," they faced thirty days of…
Specifikacia Thirty Days in May: The Day-By-Day Drama of the 1970 Indy 500 Higdon Hal
Thirty days! From the moment the drivers entered in the 1970 Indianapolis 500 rolled their cars onto the track for practice until the command "Gentlemen, start your engines," they faced thirty days of intense action. The drivers needed to go fast enough to earn one of thirty-three starting positions. Only then would they have a chance to win what sportswriters and fans called "the Greatest Spectacle in Racing."And award-winning sportswriter Hal Higdon was there to report on the action: hovering in the pits next to the racers in their cars, wandering into Gasoline Alley to tell their stories, absorbing all the excitement the month of May brings to Indianapolis.Here is the tale, day by day, of those thirty crucial days--the drivers with fast cars and slow cars, the drivers with rich sponsors and those with little money, the drivers with talent and those who need
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