Denise Mccluggage wrote the vast majority of the text. Many copies of American Racing are out there for sale, some at very low prices.
Denise McCluggage, a widely experienced and successful driver was also a renowned motor racing writer and correspondent. She was a close friend and drinking buddy with most of the big name drivers of the times and a close friend of one of our regular Waterford drivers. She was a founder of the publication that became
and was Senior Contributing Editor there until her death in 2015.Autoweek
I have wanted to add her book
, a collection of her best columns fromBy Brooks Too Broad for Leaping
, as a companion to the Burnside book for a long time, but copies are expensive and scarce. But, I was checking Alibris again a few weeks ago and there was a copy listed by a library service for about $25. It said good condition and inscribed.Autoweek
Well, the book is perfect and it is inscribed: "For Bob Bondurant - My favorite driving teacher - Denise McCluggage Nov. 1994."