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PETE LYONS: MY TRAVELS ON RACER ROAD From EVRO Publishing 2025, Hardcover, 8.25 x 9.5 inches, 560 pages, 550 photos including many in color.

NOTE: Latest estimates are that our stock of this book will not be available in North America until an undetermined date in March. The pre-order price is $95 plus shipping costs.

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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 maybe it's just a Paroxysm of Narcissism, is not “motor racing history.” It’s my memories of it. Of the indelible years of my well-spent youth as a racetrack bum, following motorsports with lens and pen. A hopeless racing romantic, I've been incredibly fortunate to enjoy that high-speed ride with Revvie and myriad other adventures while covering many, many seasons of speed events around the world. 

And now, after writing so much about other people and their doings, I thought I might get away with telling 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 had. 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?

Peter Revson, 1971 Can-Am Champion in this McLaren M8F-Chevrolet (509 CID/8.3 liters) explodes from the tight final turn at Laguna Seca raceway, California

REVIEWS … • SPEEDREADERS.COM • Society of Automotive Historians in Britain •

While you’re here, you might enjoy going to the “Photos” header tab for a look at our in-period photos, taken either by myself or my father, Ozzie Lyons. (Any purchase will be separate from your book order.)