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[Jackmancer]

Hey guys,
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this, but are there books on racing, in fiction? I know Michel Vaillant but I'm not talking cartoons but real novels.

Actually I'm an advertising copywriter and plan on writing such fiction myself (purely for my own fun of writing), but a little look on what's been done before could help me not write the same. Also, and foremost, I'd just love to read it.

[Collombin]

Hey guys,
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this, but are there books on racing, in fiction? I know Michel Vaillant but I'm not talking cartoons but real novels.

Actually I'm an advertising copywriter and plan on writing such fiction myself (purely for my own fun of writing), but a little look on what's been done before could help me not write the same. Also, and foremost, I'd just love to read it.

In my youth I used to enjoy Douglas Rutherford's books (especially the ones with Tim Ryder as the hero) - Gunshot Grand Prix, Killer on the Track and Rally to the Death being my 3 favourite examples.

[Dino246]

Plenty of motor racing fiction has been written, some good, a lot indifferent and an abundance of rubbish. I started with Jon Cleary's The Green Helmet which featured the Mille Miglia, then moved on to Douglas Rutherford who wrote mainly about the fifties. You will probably have to search the second hand bookshops for them now.I particularly liked Rutherford's A Shriek of Tyres as it included Grand Prix and sports cars. More recently in the nineties Bob Judd wrote some good stuff particularly 'Indy'. Another novel I really enjoyed was 'The Boondocks' by Desmond Lowden published by Eyre Methuen in 1972.

I've tried several times to write one myself but never got very far.

Edited by Dino246, 03 March 2013 - 14:22.

[Tim Murray]

Have a look at these earlier threads:

Motorsport fiction

Good motor sport fiction?

[Jackmancer]

Ah, thanks guys!