Virginia International Raceway (Images of Sports) - Tapa blanda

Holaday, Chris; England, Nick; Allen, Phil

 
9780738515168: Virginia International Raceway (Images of Sports)
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ISBN 10: 0738515167 ISBN 13: 9780738515168
Editorial: ARCADIA PUB (SC), 2003

Sinopsis

From the August 1957 VIR race program: "The rolling Virginia hills have been painstakingly clad with an ultra-smooth skin of macadam to provide a course of great natural beauty. The superb spectator visibility is nicely equated to a road layout that will test the best in racing machines and men." In the late 1950s, a group of sports car enthusiasts dreamed of creating a first-class racing facility. The result was Virginia International Raceway, a challenging 3.2-mile course with 12 turns, 2 straightaways, and over 100 feet of elevation change. Located in southern Virginia, east of Danville and just across the North Carolina border, the track opened in 1957. During VIR's first 18 years of existence, races featured some of the top names in American motorsports including Carroll Shelby, Roger Penske, Walt Hansgen, and Richard Petty. The track also hosted numerous important events including SCCA Nationals, the President's Cup, a Trans-Am race in the first season of that circuit, as well as IMSA races in the early 1970s. Facing financial difficulties, the track shut down in 1974, and for the next 25 years VIR was a cow pasture. It was reopened in 2000 and the outstanding new facility is again one of the top racing venues in the country.

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To produce this look at one of America's most important road racing courses, writer and historian Chris Holaday, author of Baseball in North Carolina's Piedmont, teamed up with Nick England and Phil Allen. England, a computer industry entrepreneur, first went to VIR as a photographer in the late 1960s and now drives in vintage race events there. Allen, a North Carolina District Court judge, served as VIR's public relations director in the early 1970s.

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Editorial
ARCADIA PUB (SC)
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0738515167
ISBN 13 
9780738515168
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
128
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ISBN 10:  1531610269 ISBN 13:  9781531610265
Editorial: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions, 2003
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