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Auto & Motorcycle Titles Spring 2020 {IPG} The Brown Bullet Rajo Jack's Drive to Integrate Auto Racing Bill Poehler Summary The powers-that-be in auto racing in the 1920s, namely the American Automobile Association’s Contest Board, prohibited everyone who wasn’t a white male from the sport. Dewey Gaston, a black man who went by the name Rajo Jack, broke into the epicenter of racing in California, refusing to let the pervasive racism of his day stop him from competing against entire fields of white drivers. In The Brown Bullet, Bill Poehler uncovers the life of a long-forgotten trailblazer and the great lengths he took to even get on the track, and in the end, tells how Rajo Jack proved to a generation that a black man could compete with some of the greatest white drivers of his era, wining some of the biggest races of the day. Lawrence Hill Books 9781641602297 Pub Date: 5/5/20 Contributor Bio $28.99 USD Bill Poehler is an award-winning investigative journalist based in the northwest, where he has worked as a Discount Code: LON Hardcover reporter for the Statesman Journal for 21 years. His work has appeared in the Oregonian, the Eugene Register-Guard and the Corvallis Gazette-Times ; online at OPB.org and KGW.com; and in magazines including 240 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Slant Six News , Racing Wheels , National Speed Sport News and Dirt Track Digest . He lives in Salem, Oregon. Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage BIO002010 9 in H | 6 in W How to be Formula One Champion Richard Porter Summary Are you the next Lewis Hamilton? How to be F1 Champion provides you with the complete guide to hitting the big time in top-flight motorsport, with advice on the correct look, through to more advanced skills such as remembering to insert 'for sure' at the start of every sentence, and tips on mastering the accents most frequently heard at press conferences. You'll also learn how to manage your social media account and other basics, including the art of Champagne spraying and how to wear a massive free watch. There are step by steps on how talk about key sponsors while sounding like the life force is draining from Virgin Books your body, and how to psychologically crush your teammate without him noticing. 9780753553282 Pub Date: 1/1/20 How to be F1 Champion also contains carefully illustrated guides to important factors such as facial hair, On Sale Date: 1/1/20 $19.95 USD/£9.99 GBP baseball-cap technique and the correct body language for when your stupid car has broken down on the far Discount Code: LON side of the track during lap 17. Again. Hardcover 128 Pages See you on the podium! Carton Qty: 1 Humor / Topic HUM013000 Contributor Bio 8 in H | 5.1 in W Richard Porter is the author of over 10 official Top Gear titles and two Grand Tour tie-ins. He is the creator of online motoring satire magazine sniffpetrol.com (150k users per month; Twitter 76k), and is also one of the three presenters on podcast Gareth Jones on Speed, which regularly tops the automotive charts with approx 1,000 downloads a day. He lives in London. IPG Spring 2020 Auto and Motorcycle Titles - December 2019 Page 1 {IPG} Mount Panorama Bathurst - the Stories Behind the Legend John Smailes Summary There's no other motor racing circuit in Australia that holds the same magic as Bathurst's Mount Panorama. It's been home to the Australian F1 Grand Prix, The Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix, the world's greatest 1000km touring car race, the Australian Hill Climb championship, and now a round of the world GT championship. To win on the Mountain is still the pinnacle of Australian motor sport achievement. John Smailes, co-writer of Allan Moffat's autobiography, and author of Race Across the World , has been at the Mountain for some of its greatest and infamous moments. His book tells the stories behind the champions and Allen & Unwin legendary races that have made Mount Panorama so famous. With extraordinary access to all of Australia's 9781760529369 leading motor racing names, both past and present, John's book is full of color, anecdote, and true inside Pub Date: 2/1/20 knowledge. On Sale Date: 2/1/20 $24.95 USD Discount Code: LON Contributor Bio Trade Paperback John Smailes has worked as a motor racing journalist and PR consultant for more than four decades. As a 368 Pages young reporter he covered the London-Sydney Marathon and has a substantial library of photographs as well Carton Qty: 1 as contemporary interviews and records. His most recent book is Race Across the World . Sports & Recreation / Motor Sports SPO028000 9.3 in H | 6 in W Race Across the World The Incredible Story of the World's Greatest Road Race - the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon John Smailes Summary In 1968, 98 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 Allen & Unwin before: it was the world's most grueling test of driver and vehicle. 9781760876951 Pub Date: 4/1/20 For Australians, the race became a focal point of the rivalry between local car-manufacturing giants Holden $17.95 USD Discount Code: LON and Ford, as the Monaro Coupe and the iconic Falcon GT went head to head. Neither was to win, but the story Trade Paperback of their duel is motor-sporting legend. 360 Pages Carton Qty: 0 John Smailes was a young journalist at the time, covering the race for the Sydney Daily Telegraph . Fifty years Sports & Recreation / Motor after this extraordinary race was run, John's dramatic, compelling, and u... Sports SPO028000 Contributor Bio 7.8 in H | 5 in W 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 . IPG Spring 2020 Auto and Motorcycle Titles - December 2019 Page 2 {IPG} Little Book of TT Races Jon Stroud Summary There is nothing on Earth quite like the Isle of Man TT Races. No other motorcycle race is held on such a challenging track as the 37-mile plus Mountain Course with its seemingly never-ending series of bends, bumps, jumps, stone walls, manhole covers and telegraph poles. The skill, bravery and concentration levels required are immense, with speeds approaching 200mph, and, while difficult to learn and even harder to G2 Entertainment come first, the rewards for winning on the world famous course are like no other. No other motorsport event 9781782814115 can boast more than 100 years of such illustrious history, rich in tradition and legends, and to have your Pub Date: 5/1/17 $16.95 USD/£9.99 name inscribed on a TT trophy is to sit with the gods. TT racing captures the imagination in a way no other GBP/€11.49 EUR race can and its sheer spectacle and uniqueness ensures thousands of fans flock to the Island every May and Discount Code: LON June for their annual fix. No other motorsport event attracts people in great numbers for an entire period of Hardcover two weeks except the world famous TT Races, where fans can revel in the Island s special mix of incredible 148 Pages racing and world class entertainm... Carton Qty: 0 Sports & Recreation / Motor Sports Contributor Bio SPO028000 Jon Stroud is an internationally renowned photographer specialising in all aspects of equestrian sport including Series: Little Books dressage, show jumping, eventing and para-equestrian. Although based in an idyllic village in the 6.3 in H | 6.3 in W Herefordshire countryside, he is frequently to be found working on assignment throughout the UK, Europe and across the world. His work is frequently seen on the cover and in the pages of Horse & Rider, British Horse, Horse & Hound, L'Eperon, Horse International and many more. His coverage of the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games made the front pages and feature coverage of newspapers and magazines not only the United Kingdom but across Europe and the World. He works as the British Horse Society's and British Equestrian Federation's contracted photographer and often acts as an official photographer for the FEI (International Equestrian Federation) at top events including the Paralympics, World Equestrian Games, European Championships, Nations Cup Jumping and World Cup competitions. Lap of Honour A Photographic Journey With Sir Stirling Moss Tim Hain Summary A journey back to the golden age of motor racing, through the lens of a revived 1960s photographer. Tim Hain's evocative pictures and stories span 56 years and offer a true "fan's eye view." He encounters many track legends, notably Sir Stirling Moss, who is photographed in 33 cars, with input on each and a colorful foreword by "The Maestro." Pitch Publishing 9781785315558 Contributor Bio Pub Date: 11/1/19 Tim Hain is a professional singer, guitarist, and songwriter adept at crafting words.