Sunday Driver: The Writer Meets the Road – at 175 MPH

Amidst the turmoil of the early 1970s, automotive writer Brock Yates set out to take his readers into “the insane environment of heat, noise, vibration, and ambient violence” experienced by the professional racecar driver. Trading his notepad for a helmet, Yates himself got behind the wheel in the booming professional Trans-Am road racing series. Follow him through a refresher course at Bob Bondurant’s high-performance driving school; race with him at Watkins Glen and storied racetracks across the country; revel in his account of the first Cannonball Run, an unsanctioned thirty-six-hour race from New York to Los Angeles that inspired no less than four motion pictures, and which the author both organized and won. In Sunday Driver, the reader is strapped in to the world of car racing some thirty years ago, every bit as exhilarating and dangerous as racing today.