Brock Yates was a gifted writer and screenwriter (Smokey and the Bandit) who served as the managing editor of Car & Driver magazine from 1964 until 2006. In his book, Against Death and Time, he uses a technique which he refers to as faction. In it, the story is told ...
Larry Crockett
The Crisis in Auto Racing
Auto racing is inherently dangerous. The 1955 Championship racing season was particularly bloody and brought things to a head for the AAA Contest Board, which was the sanctioning body not only for championship racing but also for sprint cars, run on one-half mile tracks, midgets run on one-quarter mile tracks, ...