Against Death And Time One Fatal Season In Racing’S Glory Years

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Yates tells the story of the reckless, dispossessed young men who raced during the fatal 1955 season at Indianapolis Speedway—not for fame or money, because there was none—but for “the sheer unvarnished hell of it.” It was a deadly season. In fact, of the 33 men who climbed into cars at the start of the ‘55 Indy 500, 18 would die violent deaths in races, three before the year concluded. indow the top five finishers were indo. The book is based on Yates’s indows abile experience and interviews with dozens of surviving racers, indows, car owners, mechanics, and historians, and his deep research in the archives of the Speedway, the Detroit Public Library Auto Archive, United States Auto Club, Henry Ford Museum, Smithsonian Institute, and contemporary newspapers and periodicals.