Variable Valve Timings: Memoirs of a Car Tragic
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Revered in the petrolhead community years before his star gig on Top Gear, automotive print and video journalist, racing driver, and the UK's favorite car geek reveals how all things motoring became his life's driving force Tire destruction, power slides and continuous drooling. Chris Harris has driven more cars than most people could ever dream of. His vast knowledge is legendary. He calls it 'unhinged geekery'. But we call it infectious enthusiasm, adrenaline-fueled escapism and peerless journalistic rigor and integrity. And then there are his famous skills at the wheel, from city cars to rally cars, F1 to vintage, not forgetting the Guinness World Record 3.4km sideways in an electric car. And now for the first time, Harris is going all out with that unhinged geekery, and takes us down the road of his life-long adventure with the automobile - - along surprising diversions, around hazards and obstructions, down the fast lane collecting Gs and back to the lock-up to prep the stock. From the six-year-old who could recite the stats from What Car? magazine to the YouTube car guru whose honest reviews got him banned by Ferrari. From the Scalextric track of his childhood, to podiums as a racing driver out in the world. From behind his garage doors to the floodlit Top Gear studio. Variable Valve Timings brings you an incredibly engaging story of adventure and petrolhead joy, told with wit, warmth and disarming honesty. This book is a true one-off, just like Chris.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1529913608
ISBN13:9781529913606
Release Date:November 2024
Publisher:Ebury Spotlight
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 4.9" x 7.7"
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