In '71 Wilkinson, already a successful author, decided to write a book about an aspiring race car driver. John Morton, having just won the 1970 National SCCA C Production Championship in a BRE 240Z, became her subject. Peter Brock, BRE team owner and manager, allowed Sylvia full access to the team.The Stainless Steel Carrot shares, without prejudice, the trials and tribulations of the era's top race team reaching for the Trans-Am 2.5 Championship and their hopes to rise to even greater heights with the "Stainless Steel Carrot", BRE's Lotus Formula 5000. The magic Sylvia pulls off is to neutralize any voice of the author. The book grabs the reader from their own perspective. If the reader has some experience in management, they are apt to empathize with Brock's struggles to guide a team of talented, opinionated individuals. If the reader is an engineer, the plight of the mechanics may gain their focus. The main subject of the book, of course, is championship driver John Morton. His insight has all drivers and wanna-be drivers on the edge of their seats waiting to see what he will do and how he'll deal with adversity next.

The Stainless Steel Carrot: An Auto Racing Odyssey

Sports & Outdoors

Sylvia Wilkinson

Miscellaneous

Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, MA.

Shadow of the Mountain

Pocket

The exploits of the BRE race team from 1970-72 were well chronicled in Sylvia Wilkinson’s now legendary book from the period, The Stainless Steel Carrot. Long out of print and still highly sought after, Sylvia finally succumbed to pleas from fans of that era to reprint the book. She has done that, and consistent with her pursuit of excellence, Sylvia has updated the book to include: An additional 46 page chapter that catches up with the BRE team members today, finding out what they think now of the BRE then, and knowing what they know now, asking how they feel today about the era and how motorsports has changed. Numerous pages of additional photos, with quality captions, documenting John Morton’s career after BRE The book, of course, contains the original text and photos plus the additions above, including more than 150 photos! (a nice mix of both color and black&amp;white). The Stainless Steel Carrot shares, without prejudice, the trials and tribulations of the era’s top race team r

The Stainless Steel Carrot: An Auto Racing Odyssey—Revisited

Brown Fox Books

More than forty years ago, Sylvia Wilkinson took her note pad, a tape recorder and an open mind to the dirt bull rings and backwoods of garages in the American South in the hopes of capturing the reflections of the people who made NASCAR stock car racing happen. What she encountered were the folksy origins, colorful characters and rough beginnings of today’s billion-dollar sport. In this all-new edition of Dirt Tracks to Glory we return to the very personal and often hilarious inside stories of sharp-witted people who became legends in the early days of NASCAR. Bill France Sr, Humpy Wheeler, Curtis Turner, “Little Joe” Weatherly, Glenn “Fireball” Roberts, the Flock Brothers, Banjo Matthews, Smokey Yunick and a host of others emerge from these pages with their personal reflections and wry commentary on the way it was in the days of “haulin shine”, bangin’ fenders and out-smartin’ the other hot-shoes on Saturday nights. To quote the author: “This book was told to me by and about the people who went with stock car racing from its beginnings…It is not an encyclopedia of stock car racing biographies, but a series of individual remembrances and perspectives of one special revelation of the American dream – from Dirt tracks to Glory!” It’s hard to disagree with her candid analysis or her engaging presentation of NASCAR’s early days.

Dirt Tracks to Glory: The Early Days of Stock Car Racing As Told by the Participants

Racemaker Press

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