The Fast Ones
Subtitle: Motor Racing from behind the wheel and the pit counter
Publisher: Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd.
Published: 1962
Place of publication: London UK
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 240
Description: Many books have been written about motor racing by famous drivers, team managers, mechanics and journalists. Each one has contributed something extra to describe the fascinating sport which carries on despite tragedies and deaths. For when the faint-hearted call 'enough' there are many others willing to close the ranks. And yet motor racing has its lighter side, when everything goes well and drivers are relaxed.
In this book Peter Miller brings a fresh approach and tells the inside story of races all over the world, from both behind the wheel and the pit counter. He recalls the stark terror of the ill-fated 1955 Le Mans race in France when 81 people were killed in front of his eyes and gives some new evidence which absolves the late Mike Hawthorn from blame for the accident which led to tragedy.
Peter Miller spent some years in the competition department of Rootes and went on to become assistant racing manager of the Aston Martin team during their world-wide chase for the sports car manufacturers' championship. His story from the ringside brings the reader into intimate contact with the motor racing scene and The Fast Ones' who dedicate, and sometimes give, their lives to the sport they love.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: 11
label: 1 * Cloud Over the Sun; title: 19
label: 2 * Caught in the Web; title: 23
label: 3 * My Foot in the Door; title: 27
label: 4  * Alpine Antics; title: 41
label: 5 * Once Round the Lighthouse; title: 47
label: 6 * A Midsummer Fright; title: 57
label: 7 * A Star was Born; title: 62
label: 8 * 1000 Miles—But Not for Us; title: 77
label: 9 * The Longest Day; title: 87
label: 10 * Four Fiery Horses Sweep Aintree; title: 91
label: 11 * Crystal-gazing at the Palace; title: 95
label: 12  * Swedish Saga; title: 101
label: 13 * Nine Hours at Glorious Goodwood; title: 107
label: 14 * Three Die at Golden Jubilee; title: 118
label: 15 * Sicilian Holiday and Tlorio's Struggle'; title: 128
label: 16 * So This is America; title: 137
label: 17  * The Drivers are Walking Back; title: 141
label: 18 * Sausage, Sauerkraut and 1000 Kilometres; title: 147
label: 19 * Gracious Living at Rouen; title: 154
label: 20 * A Crash in the Rain; title: 165
label: 21 * Solid Gold; title: 169
label: 22 * Ferraris Shine in Florida Sun; title: 178
label: 23 * The Wages of Fear; title: 184
label: 24 * The Lucky Ones; title: 201
label: 25 * The Next Ones; title: 207
label: Appendix; title: 233
label: Index