Description

Shattered metal, stabs of flame…Everyone has seen pictures of racing cars after crashes so horrifying that it seemed the drivers must be dead, and yet against all the laws of probability they have survived. But what actually happens in the milli-seconds before and during a crash? What does the driver feel and do? What are the reactions of the others involved? And what is the aftermath?

Answers are presented with authority in’The Day I Died’. Here are great names: Stirling Moss, and the real reasons, told for the first time, for the crash that ended his career; Innes Ireland, who found himself – still in his car – among the treetops, and another time fighting off a morphia injection that would have killed him; Denny Hulme, Jackie Stewart, Mike Hailwood and others.

This documentary, embracing both the tragic and triumphant elements that make up motor racing, with its insight into the human beings who are the world’s top drivers, will fascinate those who have never seen a circuit as well as the afficionados.

Hardback and dust cover in realy excellent condition throughout for a book of this age.