The Art of Racing in the Rain

by Garth Stein

The great champion Julian SabellaRosa has said, “When I am racing, my mind and my body are working so quickly and so well together, I must be sure not to think, or else I will definitely make a mistake.”

The trick in writing the book was balance: I wanted to give enough racing so racing fans would be turned-on, but not so much that a non-racer would be turned-off. So I dropped in little snippets of Enzo Racing Wisdom, like in this brief chapter, so as not to make the text too pedantic. By the way, the "great champion Julian SabellaRosa," is truly a great young man, but he's not a racer. He's my nephew, who was seven years old when I wrote the book. He is very wise, and he is a champion to me; alas, he has not won any Formula One races...