Motorsport

The Deadliest Tales: Extraordinary True Stories of Survival, Disaster, Mystery and Death in Motorsport

von David Martin

178 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Motorsport has always been a contest against time, machinery and human limits. Sometimes, however, the pursuit of speed has exposed dangers no one fully understood until it was too late.Motorsport: The Deadliest Tales explores ten extraordinary moments from racing history in which catastrophe changed the sport forever.From Tom Pryce and the horrifying accident at Kyalami, to the 1955 Le Mans disaster, the wild excesses of Group B rallying, Niki Lauda's near-fatal Nürburgring crash, Dale Earnhardt's final lap at Daytona and the tragedy that claimed Dan Wheldon at Las Vegas, these stories reveal what happens when performance advances faster than the systems designed to contain it.The book also examines the deaths of Ayrton Senna, Roland Ratzenberger and Jules Bianchi, before concluding with Romain Grosjean's astonishing escape from the flames in Bahrain - an accident that demonstrated just how much motorsport had learned from the tragedies that came before.This is not simply a collection of fatal crashes. It is the story of how racing learned to understand risk: stronger cars, safer barriers, better restraints, improved medical response and rules written because somebody discovered, often at terrible cost, what happened when protection failed.Carefully researched and written without invented dialogue or sensationalised reconstruction, Motorsport: The Deadliest Tales is a gripping history of speed, disaster, survival and the relentless pursuit of safer racing.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176334876
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published