"People lie, cheat, steal and even kill for a variety of reasons, one of which is to go motor racing, a particularly expensive and egotistical sport. This intriguing book, the result of years of research, encompasses not just those who have been ‘driven to crime’ in order to pay for their sport but also characters within motor racing who have been involved in wrongdoing, sometimes through no fault of their own."
Just off the top of my head, this book should feature Pablo Escobar, Scott Tucker and Michael Avenatti...I also know of a small-time racer who got caught importing a barrel of "race gas" which actually contained a puck of compressed weed.
Oh, yeah, chapters about the 80s IMSA boys.
Added to my wish list. I have a birthday coming up.
There was a couple of guys on the Dale Jr download that had boats... I will figure their names out and post. One guy was a strong contender in Trans AM, the other was a stock car racer.Gary Balough or close to it.
The trans am guy brought a metric berkeleyton of weed in over several years. Like a cubic metric berkeleyton.
Edit: Randy Lanier.
Almost all your early NASCAR boys were 'shine runners. Kind of why NASCAR never really talks about the first couple champions.
I'm gonna have to buy this.
I wonder if it'll have the Skip Barber driver that paid via bank robberies the same weekend as his races?
Releasing on my birthday seems like a good excuse to pick it up
This reminds me, Randy Lanier released a book recently about his exploits. I've been meaning to pick it up sometime.
The author is a Formula Junior racer in England. Instant name recognition there.
I wonder if Donald Aronow will be in the book? He's the guy that built the Cigarette racing boats in South Florida back in the 80s and sold boats to the cocaine runners and to the DEA to try and catch them and was murdered to keep him quiet.
Whittington brothers?
In reply to aircooled :
Definitely.
"a particularly expensive and egotistical sport."
In reply to 914Driver :
I was about to ask why Colin Chapman is on that list, but then figured I'd best not.
stroker said:In reply to 914Driver :
I was about to ask why Colin Chapman is on that list, but then figured I'd best not.
He managed to die shortly before some shady financing issues came to light, I think.
IIRC, Chapman was implicated in the John Delorean cocaine financing scandal, but died before all of that came to fruition.
There is a good documentary about Randy Lanier on Netflix called Bad Sport. I enjoyed it.
I was thinking this would be a book about Smokey Yunick, and he does not even rate a chapter?
Or is it a book about shady dealings to finance your racing?
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