Book Review: Racing Safely, Living Dangerously

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

Here’s one of those little books that no one knows about but everyone should read. Racing Safely, Living Dangerously was published back in 2001. It’s the autobiography of Bill Simpson (with help from Bones Bourcier) and it takes readers basically all the way up to the time when Dale Earnhardt had his fatal crash at the Daytona 500. The book was running off the printing presses when that happened so it’s a weird thing to read this book, knowing that Bill Simpson would be drug through hell but didn’t know it was coming when the book was penned.

To put it bluntly, Bill Simpson was (and most likely still is) a maverick wild man who started a safety empire in his garage with a sewing machine. He built and lost fortunes, raced at the Indy 500, called the biggest names in motorsports of all genres his friends, and has lived the lives of five people in the time a normal man lives a half. Continue reading at Freiburger’s Junkyard