Download or read book Gentlemen, Start Your Engines written by Wilbur Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging first-person account of life and auto racing in the first half of the 20th century. For thirty-five years Shaw sought speed and danger, and found both in automobile, airplane, and motorboat racing. An Indiana native, he was a three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, and the first to win it two years in a row. At the time of his death in plane crash, he was president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and had just finished this autobiography.