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Bloomsbury presents Rulebreakers and Ghost Runners: The British women who asserted their right to run by Katie Holmes, read by Lydia Thomson The incredible untold stories of the British women who broke the rules and pioneered female running today Did you know that until April 1975 women in the...

Who won the first Daytona 500? Fans still debate whether it was midwestern champion Johnny Beauchamp, declared the victor at the finish line, or longtime NASCAR driver Lee Petty, declared the official winner a few days after the race. Author John Havick interviewed scores of people, analyzed film of the race, and pored over newspaper accounts of the event. He uses this information and his deep knowledge of the sport as it worked then to determine what probably happened. But he also tells a much bigger story.