Shirley Muldowney's Tales from the Track
by Shirley Muldowney
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Author: Shirley MuldowneyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Illustrated
Published: 2005-03-01
ISBN: 1582611076
Number of pages: 200
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
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Book Review: Enlightening
Summary: 3 Stars
Looks like the people envolved with making this book made a concerted effort to not polish and "clean up" Shirley point of view. It gives you a real insight when you read between the lines about why Shirley was running around match racing while the rest of the NHRA superstars were racing in front of thousands and making tons of money. The whole book was about who she had problems with and why. Looks like she had a real inability to look at things from any one elses view point and realize that people are motivated by their own situation. Just because that may put them at odds with you doesn't mean their bad people or as she puts it "need to change"
Summary of Shirley Muldowney's Tales from the Track
In the 1970s, when the idea of a woman competing successfully with men in any form of motorsports was a radical notion, a young woman from Schenectady, New York, began her singular quest to change the chauvinistic mindset that prevailed in professional drag racing. Shirley Muldowney not only broke the gender barrier in the National Hot Rod Association, but also completely rewrote the record books in Top Fuel Eliminator, the sportÂ?s quickest and fastest category. She was the first woman ever to receive a Top Fuel license from the NHRA, and none other than "Big Daddy" Don Garlits was one of the veteran drivers who signed off on it. Between 1977 and 1982, Muldowney won three NHRA Top Fuel championshipsÂ?the first female ever to win a title in any professional motorsportÂ?and added an AHRA Top Fuel championship to her resume, as well. She won the prestigious NHRA U.S. Nationals in 1982 and, before her retirement at the end of the 2003 season, had become one of the most recognized and celebrated race car drivers in history, male or female.She was recently inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Novi, Michigan, and has been the subject of countless features in newspapers, magazines, and network television from coast to coast. Shirley MuldowneyÂ?s Tales from the Track is an unabashed collection of stories, anecdotes, and opinions in her own unvarnished style of storytelling, laced with her straightforward, take-no-prisoners approach. She has spent her entire lifetime telling it like it is, standing up to the establishment, and refusing to do anything other than in her own way. Politically correct? Hardly. Readers are encouraged to strap themselves in when she shares her many tales. ItÂ?s the whole truth and nothing but the truth according to the legendary Shirley Muldowney.
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