Race Across the World - The Incredible Story of World s Greatest Road Race The 1968 London

Informationen zum Autor John Smailes Klappentext John Smailes has worked as a motor racing journalist and PR consultant for more than four decades. As a young reporter he covered the London-Sydney Marathon and has a substantial library of photographs as well as contemporary interviews and records. His most recent book is Allan Moffat's autobiography, Climbing the Mountain . The rollicking adventure of the world's greatest car race - the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon. Zusammenfassung In 1968, ninety-eight competitors stormed out of London on the world's greatest automotive adventure, the London to Sydney Marathon, the most ambitious and epic car race ever staged. Four weeks later they arrived in Sydney-or at least half of them did. The others lay in ruin along its 10,000-mile route. Unimaginable now in either concept or execution, the marathon captured the rapt attention of the countries through which it passed, and of the world, as it created front-page news. It was more than a car race, more than a rally, more than the trials that opened up outback Australia only a decade before: it was the world's most gruelling test of driver and vehicle. For Australians, the race became a focal point of the rivalry between local car-manufacturing

Product details

• Authors: John Smailes
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.10.2018
• EAN: 9781760632533
• ISBN: 978-1-76063-253-3
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Motorsport, motorcycle sport, bicycle sport, aviation sport; SPORTS & RECREATION / General, TRANSPORTATION / Automotive / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / Reference, Reference works, Sport: general, Road and motor vehicles: general interest