
Motor Racing's Strangest Races
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Revised, redesigned and updated for a new generation of petrolheads, this book contains enough extraordinary-but-true tales to drive anyone around the bend.
Word count: 45,000
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- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Working up a Head of Steam (1894)
- A Modest Beginning (1895)
- Police Brutality (1898)
- Charron in Reverse (1899)
- The Hound from Hell (1900)
- Fuelled by Alcohol (1902)
- Jarrott's Running Repairs (1902)
- The Race to Death (1903)
- Journey into the Unknown (1907)
- The Race around the World (1908)
- The Firing Squad (1908)
- Dogged by Misfortune (1912)
- Champagne Jules (1913)
- Across the Line Backwards (1919)
- A Pit Stop for Lunch (1925)
- A Clash of the Giants (1925)
- Three Car Trick (1927)
- The Actress and the Opera Singer (1929)
- The Ice-man Melteth (1930)
- Fagioli Brings the Bridge Down (1931)
- Victory at 1½Mph (1932)
- Campari's Hammer Blow (1932)
- A Fiery Finish (1933)
- On the Beach (1933)
- The Fixed Race (1933)
- Le Mans Victory Sealed by Chewing Gum (1933)
- The Wrong Pit Signal (1935)
- Nuvolari Versus the Germans (1935)
- An Encounter with a Stag (1938)
- The Tied Monte (1939)
- The Wrong Side of the Road (1940)
- Racing on Ice (1947)
- The Silverstone Sheep (1947)
- Farina in a Huff (1949)
- Called from the Bar (1953)
- Hell in Buenos Aires (1955)
- Helping Hands (1956)
- The Day the Track Melted (1959)
- The Final Push (1959)
- Brabham Goes by Tram (1960)
- The Post-race Collision (1962)
- The Great Escape (1965)
- The Demolition Indy (1966)
- A Hare's Breadth (1969)
- On Tow around Monza (1969)
- Punch-up at the Palace (1970)
- Mad Dogs and Mexicans (1970)
- The Rally with No Finishers (1972)
- Through the Barricades (1973)
- Safety First (1973)
- Stuck in the Pit Lane (1974)
- Half Points in Barcelona (1975)
- Victory in Slow Motion (1976)
- Six Wheels on My Wagon (1976)
- Hunt's Flag Day (1976)
- Lauda Surrenders the Title (1976)
- Fan Worship (1978)
- An Unexpected Obstruction (1979)
- The Race That Never Was (1980)
- Mansell: A Painful Beginning (1980)
- The Long Wait (1981)
- A Falling-out Among Friends (1982)
- All Change at Monaco (1982)
- A Hint of National Bias? (1982)
- It's a Washout (1986)
- A Family Affair (1988)
- the Battle of Suzuka (1990)
- The 25-minute Grand Prix (1991)
- Mansell and the Safety Truck (1993)
- The Race against the Train (1993)
- Let the Sunshine in (1996)
- Road Rage (1997)
- After You, Mika! (1998)
- Schumacher Wins in the Pits (1998)
- Carnage at La Source (1998)
- The Shed, the Bed and the Boot (1999)
- No Tyres for Irvine (1999)
- The Six-day World Champion (1999)
- Coulthard and the Trespasser (2000)
- The Ugly Six Pack (2005)
- Forty-one People Went to Mow (2006)
- A Passage Through India (2006)
- The Deliberate Crash (2008)
- Final Turn Decider (2008)
- Last to First (2011)
- This Little Piggy (2014)
- A Crazy Miscalculation (2015)
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