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PETE LYONS: MY TRAVELS ON RACER ROAD From EVRO Publishing, , Hardcover, 8.25 x 9.5 inches, 560 pages, 550 photos including many in color.

NOTE: This book will not be available until AFTER THE HOLIDAYS. We hope for copies to be delivered to us in early 2025, maybe Jan or Feb. The pre-order price is $95 plus shipping costs as of Oct 2024. If shipping costs increase dramatically by Jan 2025, there may be an additional charge to cover that increase.

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(Excerpt from the book)

Wedged in an angular bathtub. Its metal thrilled and in my helmet was a heavy throb. I glimpsed a white needle fluttering: 64, 66, 68. Six-eight in third is 158 mph.

The vibration cut off. An instant of calm. Then a great hammer struck my spine, slamming my head back. 

I forced it down, and stared at the long black roadway between the orange wheel bulges. It was rushing like some demonic torrent frantic to enter the gates of hell. Small markings — stains, patches, pebbles — appeared as flickers and were gone like dust on a ciné film. There was no longer any sensation of speed. We were going too fast.

That’s from "Riding With Revvie,” a magazine piece I wrote in 1971 for Britain’s Autosport. I wanted to tell my fellow fans about the five best minutes of my five decades of life as a motor racing gypsy.

I hoped to bring them along as I sat next to America’s Peter Revson, new champion of the Can-Am series, as he booted his rocket sled McLaren-Chevy around Riverside International Raceway at full racing noise. 

It was like riding an insane bull, I said.

The entire, unabridged story is told in MY TRAVELS ON RACER ROAD. This new book, a sort of Autobio, or Memoir, or perhaps a Paroxysm of Narcissism, is all about my well-spent youth as a racetrack bum. A hopeless racing romantic, I've been incredibly fortunate to enjoy that high-speed ride and myriad other adventures while covering many, many seasons of motorsports events around the world. 

And now, after writing so much about other people, it’s time to share my own stories. Tales of racers, and races, and racetracks. Of travels to all six continents where motorsports take place. Of the (few) racecars I’ve driven, and the cars, motorcycles and airplanes I’ve owned. The exceptional individuals I’ve come to know in the sport. The moments of magic that will never leave my memory. 

Care to ride along?