{"id":489659,"date":"2007-08-01T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=62648"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:05:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T22:05:01","slug":"product-reviews-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/product-reviews-68\/","title":{"rendered":"[Book Review] Cars at Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Cars at Speed<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">By Robert Daley<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/PR200708-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-621896 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/PR200708-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"877\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/PR200708-p1.jpg 877w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/PR200708-p1-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/PR200708-p1-832x1024.jpg 832w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/PR200708-p1-81x100.jpg 81w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/PR200708-p1-770x948.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/PR200708-p1-293x361.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px\" \/><\/a>Some 46 years ago, Cars at Speed by Robert Daley first appeared in bookstores and was something of a bestseller in the U.S. and England. \u201cIt covers a period when the racing of fast motor cars bore little resemblance to what is done today, some say no resemblance,\u201d writes Daley in the introduction to the 2007 edition, published by Motor Books International.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Daley sums up an era, and he does it by describing in poetic detail the great, lost, road-racing circuits, and the great drivers who triumphed and sometimes died on them: Juan Fangio, Stirling Moss, Fon de Portago, Phil Hill, Harry Schell, Peter Collins, Jean Behra, Mike Hawthorne and others. Daley knew many of them well. He dispatches with making heroes out of them\u2014they did not view themselves this way he tells us. Daley befriends one of them (Phil Hill), cares about them, worries about them, and feels the loss on a personal level whenever one of them dies. That is what makes his book so worthwhile. We, too, come to know these drivers as we read their stories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Daley\u2019s portrait of de Portago has been republished in several magazines down through the years and is perhaps the most poignant. We see de Portago as a living, breathing person who pushes the limits once too often and dies in a violent crash that kills a dozen others, needlessly as Daley makes clear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Daley was highly criticized in his day for his frank reporting of accidents and death, something not done by the dominant British press at the time. In fact, Daley brought modern reporting skills to a sport that for too long had romanticized its drivers while ignoring the accidents and deaths that were an all-too-regular occurrence. Available for <strong>US$27.95<\/strong> (<strong>\u00a318.99<\/strong>) from better bookstores or online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorbooks.com\">www.motorbooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cars at Speed By Robert Daley Some 46 years ago, Cars at Speed by Robert Daley first appeared in bookstores and was something of a bestseller in the U.S. and England. \u201cIt covers a period when the racing of fast motor cars bore little resemblance to what is done today, some say no resemblance,\u201d writes Daley in the introduction to the 2007 edition, published by Motor Books International. Daley sums up an era, and he does it by describing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":621896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,11339],"tags":[2942,17152,17940,3297],"class_list":["post-489659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-product","tag-car-books","tag-car-culture","tag-product-reviews","tag-products"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>[Book Review] Cars at Speed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Richard Nisley, Art Evans and Casey Annis review books about Grand Prix&#039;s Golden Age, Memoirs of an Automotive Photojournalist and Rodger Ward\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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