{"product_id":"jim-hall-isbn-9780760353943","title":"Jim Hall","description":"\u003cb\u003eJim Hall is the Charles Lindbergh of motor racing. The man who changed everything. Here, he tells his story for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From racing's earliest days, the men who designed and built these land-bound rocket ships viewed the air that moved over, under, and around a car as it\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ehauled toward 200 miles per hour as a nuisance with which they had to contend. It was Jim Hall who first saw how this nuisance could be turned not only into a force for good, but a\u003cb\u003e breakthrough in vehicle performance\u003c\/b\u003e. Today, racers call it \u003cb\u003e“downforce”\u003c\/b\u003e—the amount of downward force that can be exerted on a car’s tires to improve how well the vehicle stops, goes, and, most of all, grips the corners.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hall’s innovations \u003cb\u003emade him both a hero and celebrity\u003c\/b\u003e throughout the 1960s and ‘70s. He was on the cover of \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated \u003c\/i\u003eand featured in countless newspaper and magazine articles. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e alone published 250 stories about Hall \u003c\/b\u003eover the period. The Chaparral phenomenon reached Europe and Asia, and into seemingly every American home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hall’s achievements made him\u003cb\u003e more renowned than understood\u003c\/b\u003e; he was a famously private individual. Part of it was a natural introspection and an almost obsessive focus on his goals. Part of it was the Texas-cowboy ethos that a man’s actions should count for more than his words. But now, in \u003ci\u003eJim Hall\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cb\u003e he will finally tell his story\u003c\/b\u003e. How he changed race car design. How he conquered the world’s greatest automakers from a tiny quad of steel-sided buildings on State Highway 349 in Midland, Texas. How he inspired a generation.","brand":"Motorbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47819258659045,"sku":"NP9780760353943","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780760353943_889102b4-b321-41ae-8c63-89868b846152.jpg?v=1771872085","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/jim-hall-isbn-9780760353943","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}