Faster! A Racer's Diary

Stewart, Jackie & Peter Manso

ISBN 10: 0374153701 / ISBN 13: 9780374153700

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1972

About this Item

Cloth in DJ; 239pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, slight forward slant, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Vintage volume containing account in diary form, of the year 1970 in the life of Jackie Stewart, who won the World Championship of Drivers in 1969 and 1971, while 1970 was the year he lost his two closest friends. Illustrated with photos.

Seller Inventory # 018626

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Faster! A Racer's Diary
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0374153701
• ISBN 13: 9780374153700
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sports

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Synopsis

Jackie Stewart had a kind of genius. He could extract speed and precision from an automobile in a way that is beyond the comprehension, let alone the ability, of most men. In 1969, after only four years of Formula I competition, he won the World Drivers Championship. He won the championship again in 1971. But 1970, the year Stewart relives in Faster!, was a difficult year. Because of the machinations of racing politics, he was left with an uncompetitive car. During the year his two best friends, Jochen Rindt and Piers Courage, were killed while racing. Adversity and honesty forced Stewart to reexamine his motivations, and the result is a penetrating look at big-time auto racing. In his diary, Jackie Stewart goes behind the surface of a glamorous career to show why a man is compelled to risk his life in the quest for victory. Faster! is co-authored by Peter Manso, a writer and former college professor. Their disparate backgrounds and sensibilities make Stewart and Manso an unusual team. Together they give us an unforgettable portrait of a complex man and his dangerous profession.