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72 pp.
| Chelsea
| November, 2007
|
LibraryISBN 978-0-7910-8759-6$25.00 New ed. (1996)
(4)
4-6
Race Car Legends series.
These books (all but Danica are revised) include behind-the-scenes details that will please racing fans. The biographies profile the racing greats' lives and careers; Need introduces types of auto racing and traces the continuing quest for faster cars. The design is unremarkable and the texts bland, but the books are quite informative. Sidebars and captioned photos of varying quality appear throughout. Reading list, timeline, websites. Bib., glos., ind. Review includes these Race Car Legends titles: Jeff Gordon, The Jarretts, Danica Patrick, Mark Martin, The Need for Speed, The Allisons, and A. J. Foyt.