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Winner of the Motor Press Guild Best Book of the Year Award &Ā Dean Batchelor Award for Excellence in Automotive Journalism
For fans of The Boys in the BoatĀ andĀ In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph by an improbable team of upstarts over Hitlerās fearsome Silverā¦
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The setting is interwar Europe.
The players are RenƩ Dreyfus, a Jewish racing driver, and Lucy Schell, a racing driver and American heiress.
As antisemitism crept through the continent, Dreyfus' successful racing career was choked out by the might of state-funded German engineeringāat least, until Schell came along.
With her ample fortune and a home in Paris, Schell began funding her own racing team and immediately signed Dreyfus. Later, when the pressures of Nazi ideology threatened Dreyfus' life, Schell funded a "trip" to the Indianapolis 500 in America in order to help him start a new life.
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