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Black noon : the year they stopped the Indy 500 / Art Garner.

by Garner, Art.

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Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2014.

796.7209772 G234b

Indianapolis Speedway Race -- History.

Automobile racing -- United States -- History.

Automobile racing drivers -- United States -- Interviews.

Automobile racing -- Safety measures.

9781250017772 (hc.)

1250017777 (hc.)

viii, 342 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-330) and index.

"Just before high noon on May 30th, 1964, the Indy 500 stopped for the first time in history. Seven cars had crashed in a fiery accident, killing two drivers, and threatening the very future of the 500. Art Garner reconstructs the events, circumstances, and fatal decisions leading up to the sport's blackest day. Recalling a bygone era when drivers lived hard, raced hard, and at times died hard, Black Noon takes readers back to the last race won by a front-engined roadster, to before the switch from gasoline to methanol, to tell one of the great untold stories in sports. Informed by his extensive interviews including six of the seven surviving drivers, Garner brings to life the greatest names in racing--A.J. Foyt, Dan Gurney, Parnelli Jones, Bobby Unser, and Johnny Rutherford--focusing on Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald, the two very different drivers whose lives accelerated toward the same catastrophic end that day."--From publisher.

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