The Unfair Advantage - Mark Donohue; Paul Van Valkenburgh; Donohue, Mark Review & Synopsis

 Synopsis

In 1974, Mark Donohue took a year off from driving at the height of his racing career to write "The Unfair Advantage," a candid and revealing book about his journey through the world of auto racing -- from amateur SCCA races in his own '57 Corvette to winning the Indy 500 in Roger Penske's McLaren M16. This new edition contains over 60 additional photographs and comments from people who worked and raced with Donohue during the 1960s and early 1970s.

Review

Mark Donohue gained fame in the '60s and '70s as a maverick breed of auto racer who used scientific and engineering skill to win his races. From winning amateur races in his college days as a mechanical engineering student at Brown to taking the checkered flag at the 1972 Indianapolis 500, Mark Donohue strove to understand the dynamics behind high performance, and then perfected his skill in extracting it.He also was a winning co-driver of the 24-hour sports car enduro at Daytona, and he set a world's speed record at Talladega. Of course, racing has been called the cruel sport. Mark suffered many losses and disappointments too, both public and private. His life ended tragically at the age of 38 after a 1975 Formula One accident in Austria. But his legacy remains timeless. In fact, every successful driver today owes a debt of knowledge to Mark Donohue's pioneering work in applying science to speed....Donohue's book is a must-read. -- LA Car, December 2000

...a gripping history of sports cars and road racing. -- Los Angeles Times, December 6, 2000

...must-read titles. -- AutoWeek, November 20-26, 2000

...the return of The Unfair Advantage means everything good -- Excellence, April 2001

Bentley Publishing brings back a book to introduce a singular American motorsports hero to a new generation of racing fans. -- Roundel, February 2001

Donohue tells . . . the story of how racing became a science as well as a sport. -- Automobile, February 2001

Donohue's storytelling evokes a time when modestly funded (and talented) guys made good. -- Sports Car Market, November 2000

Highly recommended. --911 & Porsche World, December 2000

Several car books have been released recently, and one that really caught our eye is The Unfair Advantage --Grassroots Motorsports, December 2000

The 25th anniversary edition of The Unfair Advantage brings back the long-sought-after title and adds more than 100 new photos --Hot Rod, January 2001

The Kingdom of the Kid

Recalls a childhood on Long Island as the counterculture sixties were sliding into the seventies and the Hamptons were still a middle-class sanctuary. The Kingdom of the Kid is a memorable portrait of an indelible childhood on Long Island’s South Fork from 1967 to 1972, when the Hamptons were still a middle-class paradise. In six short years, journalist Geoff Gehman was changed forever by a host of remarkable characters, including Carl Yastrzemski, his first baseball hero; Truman Capote, his first literary role model; race car champion Mark Donohue, who conquered a wicked track nicknamed “The Bridge”; Henry Austin “Austie” Clark Jr., fabled proprietor of a candy store of vintage vehicles; and Norman Jaffe, the notorious architect who designed a house seemingly built by masons from outer space. Gehman’s childhood kingdom was ruled by his father, a boozing, schmoozing social bulldozer, who taught his son how to pitch, how to sing barbershop harmony, and how to mix with potato farmers and power brokers. Then, burdened by manic depression and bad investments, he abruptly ended his son’s reign on the East End by selling the family house in Wainscott without his wife’s permission. The Kingdom of the Kid is not just another baby-boomer coming-of-age memoir about baseball, beaches, drive-in movies, rock ’n’ roll, fast cars, faster women, alcoholism, mental illness, divorce, suicide, and redemption. It’s a pilgrimage to a special place at a special time that taught a kid how to be special. It’s for anyone who has lived in the Hamptons or has wondered about living in the Hamptons, anyone who remembers the thrill of riding shotgun on the tailgate of a Ford LTD station wagon, anyone hungry for a juicy slice of Don McLean’s “American Pie.” Geoff Gehman is a former arts writer for The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Down But Not Quite Out in Hollow-weird: A Documentary in Letters of Eric Knight. He lives in Pennsylvania’s Northampton County and thinks about the long-lost Hamptons every day.

... Historical Society; information on Mark Donohue from Mark Donohue and Paul Van Valkenburgh , The Unfair Advantage (Bentley, 2000), and Michael Argetsinger, Marla Donahue : Technical Excellence at Speed (David Bull, 2009)."

The Successful Race Car Driver

From driving to car preparation to dealing with sponsors, The Successful Race Car Driver details the lessons that need to be learned to succeed in today's racing environment. All drivers, from those who consider racing a hobby to those who wish to embark on a professional career, will find valuable tips and techniques that will help make them faster drivers, and help them avoid pitfalls along the way.

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Intel Xeon Phi Processor High Performance Programming

This book is an all-in-one source of information for programming the Second-Generation Intel Xeon Phi product family also called Knights Landing. The authors provide detailed and timely Knights Landingspecific details, programming advice, and real-world examples. The authors distill their years of Xeon Phi programming experience coupled with insights from many expert customers — Intel Field Engineers, Application Engineers, and Technical Consulting Engineers — to create this authoritative book on the essentials of programming for Intel Xeon Phi products. Intel® Xeon PhiTM Processor High-Performance Programming is useful even before you ever program a system with an Intel Xeon Phi processor. To help ensure that your applications run at maximum efficiency, the authors emphasize key techniques for programming any modern parallel computing system whether based on Intel Xeon processors, Intel Xeon Phi processors, or other high-performance microprocessors. Applying these techniques will generally increase your program performance on any system and prepare you better for Intel Xeon Phi processors. A practical guide to the essentials for programming Intel Xeon Phi processors Definitive coverage of the Knights Landing architecture Presents best practices for portable, high-performance computing and a familiar and proven threads and vectors programming model Includes real world code examples that highlight usages of the unique aspects of this new highly parallel and high-performance computational product Covers use of MCDRAM, AVX-512, Intel® Omni-Path fabric, many-cores (up to 72), and many threads (4 per core) Covers software developer tools, libraries and programming models Covers using Knights Landing as a processor and a coprocessor

... Mark Donohue about his career driving and developing race cars. I especially enjoyed Chapter 25, which. 1Mark Donohue with Paul Van Valkenburgh , The Unfair Advantage , Robert Bentley, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA, second edition, 2000."

Ford GT

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ford's iconic 1966 victory and get the detailed back story leading to that historic win--including the parts played by Enzo Ferrari, Henry Ford II, and Carroll Shelby.

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The Automobile in American History and Culture

In a series of lengthy essays, Berger presents an in-depth study of various aspects of the automobile and the automobile industry, including history, cultural and societal impact, and relationships with government. The essays are bolstered by extensive bibliographic references, a chronology, a survey of research collections, and author and subject indexes.

Norwalk, Conn.: Cranbury, 1991. Donohue , Mark , with Paul Van Valkenburg . The Unfair Advantage . New York: Dodd, Mead, 1975. Durant, Margery. My Father. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. Duryea, Charles E. Handbook of the Automobile."

Road & Track

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Racing with Roger Penske

Auto racing legend Roger Penske began as a successful sportscar driver before transitioning to owning a race team and opening a car dealership. Within eight years, Team Penske won the Indianapolis 500. Today, the team boasts more than 580 victories, including an unparalleled 18 Indianapolis 500 wins and two at the Daytona 500. Penske's efforts on the track have been intertwined with his business ventures. Penske Corporation, with $32 billion in revenues, includes Penske truck leasing and rentals, retail automotive centers and logistics. In 2019, he bought the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and related assets, including IndyCar, and led both through the coronavirus pandemic, when racing continued with no fans in the stands. This book chronicles more than 50 years of Roger Penske's racing history, with an overview of his business career, including the turnaround of Detroit Diesel.

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The IROC Porsches

The IROC Porsches details the creation and first season of the International Race of Champions, a series divined as a means to pit the world’s top international racing drivers (from IndyCar, Formula One, sports car racing, and NASCAR) against one another to determine who was top dog.

... go-to guy) Mark Donohue had a great influence, and one he raced that year until he was sidelined with injury. ... his marvelous and ofttimes eye-opening biography The Unfair Advantage , coauthored with Paul Van Valkenburgh : When all ..."

AMC Muscle Cars : Muscle Car Color History

Anybody who wanted to go toe to toe with the Big Three in the 1960s had to produce credible muscle cars. American Motors Corporation did exactly that with the SC Rambler and the incredibly fast AMX. Some argue, however, that AMC's insistence on pouring its relatively limited resources into the "muscle wars" ultimately led to its demise. Illustrated throughout with modern photography of restored and factory-original cars, archival images, AMC concept drawings, period advertisements, and cutaway illustrations, this color history primarily focuses on the conception, development, production, and performance of the AMX, as well as the Javelin upon which it was based. Special models like the Mark Donohue Signature Edition Javelin, along with the less-than-well-received Marlin, Rebel, SST, Hornet 360, Gremlin X, and others are also included.

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Autocar

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Racecar Engineering

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Talking Book Topics

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The Autocar

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The Publishers Weekly

Enduring THE RECENT SUCCESSES of Grant : Memoirs and Selected Letters and Americans in Paris : A Literary Anthology are ex- amples of the way the Library of America is " expanding what the notion of great American literature is , " said ..."

Cassette Books

Language and Linguistics * Thinking Out Loud : On the Personal , the Political , the Public , and the Private RC 35916 ... Language in Thought and Action , Fifth Edition RC 36644 by S.I. and Alan R . Hayakawa read by Gordon Gould 2 ..."

Automobile Quarterly

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Publishers Weekly

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