Fifty Years With The Speed Kings (David McDonald)

Author: David McDonald ("Dunlop Mac"), Hardbound, 176 Pages, ISBN: B0000CL1IX, First Edition, 1961 - Second-Hand book in very good condition !

The start of a big motor race  is always one of the most , dramatic sights in the world. The air shakes to the roll and thunder of the big engines, but long before then David Macdonald's work has begun, though it has not finished.

Better known as Dunlop Mac, he is probably the most famous name among the back-room boys in the most democratic of all sports—motor racing—in which marquises and mechanics, lords and labourers, aristocrats and artisans, are firm friends. .

'Mac' is one of the key men in the art of crowding miles into minutes and has spent many years in preparing the tyres for the record breakers and race winners. But it isn't all hard work.

There are stories here of hilarious fun which the back-room boys have while the 'dicers' are preparing for their onslaughts on records and races ; periods of intensity and hilarity ; intimate close-ups of racing motorists over the last thirty years.

Dunlop Mac's book breathes the very atmosphere of what is sometimes called 'the most dangerous sport in the world'.