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Author
Publisher
Octane Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiii, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Winning came naturally to Al Unser Jr. Born into a racing family, he had a gift for finding the fast line on the track. By the time he was nine years old, he could draw the quickest way through the corner on paper and intuitively apply his sketch while on the go-kart track. By his teen years, the innate sense for the fast way made him unstoppably quick when he was racing through the woods on a snowmobile, on a dirt track, in a sprint car, or on a...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male dominated Palestinian street car racing scene. Weaving together their lives on and off the track, this takes viewers on a surprising journey into the drive to go further and faster than anyone thought they could.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013], ♭2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color), 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A picture book introduction to the life of the mid-twentieth-century aviation and auto racing pioneer describes her fascination with vehicles during childhood and the daring achievements that earned her the title, First Lady of Firsts.
6) Ayrton Senna
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the moment his father gave four-year-old Ayrton Senna a go-kart, he was in love with racing. Showing promise from an early age, Ayrton would go on to take the Formula One world by storm, winning championship after championship and becoming one of the greatest drivers in the sport's history. Off the track, he championed education for the underprivileged in Brazil, his home country"--
Publisher
Hey! Original Television
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (35 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a man whose competitive drive reminds some of Michael Jordan. Hanson didn't start driving until after he turned 40, and in his mid-50s he won the national championship for his class. This guy's a sales star in the farm equipment industry during the week, but he lives to be a hero on the track on the weekends.
Author
Publisher
Evro Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
300 pages : illustrations (color, black and white), portraits (color, black and white) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Brian Redman is one of very few notable British racing drivers whose racing life has yet to be put on record in book form. Now that is about to be rectified. Packed with photographs, Redman's memoir is a vivid account of his varied racing exploits, with special focus on the period when he won major sports car races in Ford GT40s, Porsche 908s and 917s, and Ferrari 312PBs, and also became North American Formula 5000 champion three years running. Highly...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Just before high noon on May 30th, 1964, the Indy 500 stopped for the first time in history. Seven cars had crashed in a fiery accident, killing two drivers, and threatening the very future of the 500. In this tight, fast-paced narrative, Art Garner expertly reconstructs the events, circumstances, and fatal decisions leading up to the sport's blackest day. Recalling a bygone era when drivers lived hard, raced hard, and at times died hard, Black Noon...
12) Lewis Hamilton
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Little Lewis's childhood was filled with cars, motorcycles and watching Formula One with his dad. On his fifth birthday, he received a remote-controlled racing car and joined a local club. It was hard being the only black child there, but he listened to his dad's words: 'Let your results speak for you.' His hobby led him to go-kart racing, and at the age of 10 he became the youngest ever winner of the British cadet go-karting competition. Shortly...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying ace
At the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies, the car and airplane, took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into American life. The brave souls that leaped into these dangerous contraptions and pushed them to unexplored extremes became new American heroes: the race car driver and the flying ace.
No individual did more to create...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A picture book biography follows the life of Kitty O'Neil, the stuntwoman and racecar driver who broke the women's land speed record, becoming a hero to fans everywhere.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The world knows Paul Newman as an Academy Award winning actor with a fifty-plus year career as one of the most prolific and revered actors in American Cinema. He was also well known for his philanthropy; Newman's Own has given more than four hundred and thirty million dollars to charities around the world. Yet few know the gasoline-fueled passion that became so important in this complex, multifaceted man's makeup.
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