Closing Speed

It was the fastest, most competitive European endurance-racing season ever Ferrari, Porsche, Alfa Romeo, Matra all battling wheel to wheel for the 1970 World Manufacturer s Championship, and young American journalist Nick Thorne was there to cover it... But when one spring afternoon he sprinted across a rain-slick German test track to rescue the World Champion from a fiery wreck, he was thrust into racing s red-hot center. Suddenly on intimate terms with the drivers, their wives and lovers, the secrets he came upon were vastly more than he bargained for, as race by race the championship rose to its desperate climax. From England s rain-drenched Brands Hatch to sunny Monza in Italy, Sicily s gritty Targa Florio to glamorous Monaco and the horrifying speeds of Belgium s Spa-Francorchamps, Nick learned to trust only one truth In the violence of all-out competition, there are no innocent bystanders.