Sports Cars

By Sean McCollum

Racing fans love to watch sports cars whirl around the track. Discover how these amazing machines have evolved from their early days and into some of the fastest cars on the track.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: Jul 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781663982995

Sean McCollum

Award-winning author Sean McCollum has written more than 30 nonfiction books and hundreds of articles for children and teens. Currently living in the United States Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea, he has sailed on ships big and small, and always checks where the lifeboats are stowed.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Chapter 1: A Day of Racing

Chapter 2: History of Sports Car Racing

Chapter 3: Today’s Sports Cars

Chapter 4: Sports Cars on the Racetrack

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A DAY OF RACING

The Audi No. 2 could not keep up with the Peugeot No. 7 at the 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans. These Le Mans Prototypes had been two of the favorites to win the event. But now the race was half over and the Peugeot had a two-minute lead. Both cars were averaging more than 130 miles