Author | : Wilbur Shaw |
File Size | : 46,9 Mb |
Publisher | : Unknown |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 08 May 2024 |
ISBN | : UOM:39015022440898 |
Pages | : 408 pages |
Gentlemen Start Your Engines by Wilbur Shaw Book PDF Summary
An engaging first-person account of life and auto racing in the first half of the 20th century. For thirty-five years Shaw sought speed and danger, and found both in automobile, airplane, and motorboat racing. An Indiana native, he was a three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, and the first to win it two years in a row. At the time of his death in plane crash, he was president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and had just finished this autobiography.