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  • The Fast Life and Remarkable Times of NASCAR's Top Gun
  • By: David Poole
  • Narrated by: Christine Padovan
  • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)
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Tim Richmond

By: David Poole
Narrated by: Christine Padovan
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From Tim Richmond's days as a young boy racing his go-kart on his father's factory floor to his tragic and untimely death at age 34, David Poole provides an extensive, penetrating look at one of racing's legendary figures with Tim Richmond: The Fast Life and Remarkable Times of NASCAR's Top Gun.

Christine Padovan's captivating, lively delivery perfectly encapsulates Richmond's freewheeling spirit and the kinetic energy of Poole's prose. Her skillful performance makes this experience as bracing and compelling as a NASCAR race, making it difficult to pause after pressing play.

 

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Tim Richmond was, fellow NASCAR driver Kyle Petty said, "a stranger in time." In one regard, the flashy, flamboyant driver from Ashland, Ohio, was years ahead of the trends in a sport that would soon enjoy explosive growth in popularity. Women who were NASCAR fans loved him - and so did their husbands and boyfriends.

Richmond believed he could use his stardom in racing as a springboard to a second career as an actor, and he had the Hollywood good looks to make that a realistic dream. At the same time, Richmond was also a throwback. He pushed his race cars hard, too hard at times, driving every lap like he was hauling moonshine through the mountains of the Carolinas with a revenuer on his rear bumper. Those who saw him drive still compare him to veterans like Curtis Turner and Joe Weatherly, who ran as hard off the track as they did off of it.

In the early 1980s, however, Richmond stood out. He was not from the South; he had not grown up slinging a stock car through the dirt on red-clay ovals. He had, in fact, never raced at all until he was 21. And just 10 years later, after making a splash in the Indianapolis 500 as a rookie, he was emerging as one of the brightest stars and greatest talents in NASCAR's Winston Cup Series. Richmond's star was bright, but its light went out too soon.

As he neared stock car racing's zenith, Richmond's life took a tragic turn. A man who thrived on the affection he felt from those who enjoyed watching him compete spent his final months almost completely shut off from that world. Tim Richmond: The Fast Life and Remarkable Times of NASCAR's Top Gun tells the memorable story of a born racer and how he raced headlong through life with the throttle wide open and his wheels burning rubber at almost every turn.

©2005, 2012 David Poole (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

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Reasonable Book Ruined By A Poor Reader.

Would you try another book written by David Poole or narrated by Christine Padovan?

David Poole - Yes.
Christine Padovan - No! Definitely not! How did this person ever get hired to read this book aloud? Did nobody listen to her? "Terrible" would be a compliment. Her sentences actually do not make sense because she is pausing at the end of every line. e.g Tim Richmond led every lap of the Penzoil 500. Until his engine blew three laps from home.

Would you be willing to try another one of Christine Padovan’s performances?

Never!

Could you see Tim Richmond being made into a movie or a TV series? Who would the stars be?

Yes, quite easily.

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