Tales from the Indianapolis 500

A Collection of the Greatest Indy 500 Stories Ever Told

By: Jack Arute, Jenna Fryer, A. J. Foyt - foreword

Narrated by: Tony Carnaghi

Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

The best stories from the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing" at historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway - newly updated.

What’s it like to race across the blacktop of the nation’s most famous track? How does it feel to smash into a concrete wall while going over 200 miles per hour? This exciting, humorous, and poignant collection of tales takes listeners inside the most exciting race in America. Tales from the Indianapolis 500 captures horrific collisions and sweet victories from drivers past and present.

©2004 Jack Arute and Jenna Fryer. Foreword ©2004 A. J. Foyt (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

A must read for race fans

Very unique perspective and great stories.
P the narrator mispronounced a lot of driver names, but they are hard to pronounce.
Over all amazing.

Good Story Collection Mangled by Narrator

I’ve attended or watched the 500 festivities and races for over 60 years. I learned a lot of behind the scenes activities. In absolutely No Way would Jack Arute butcher driver, crew chief, owner and sponsor names. Jack was a respected announcer during race times. The narrator didn’t put forth effort to know his material and he degraded the sport.

Great stories, bad narration

The stories presented by Arute in this memoire are fantastic! Any fan of the Indy 500 will truly enjoy these accounts.

However, the narrator butchered MANY of the names of the racers and the series. I’m pretty disappointed that these great stories were jaded by so many mispronunciations.

If you can get past that, you’ll enjoy the book.

Dreadful

Unbelievably dreadful. Interesting stories, but no continuity. And the performance; absolutely awful! The mispronouncing of names and cars is astounding. Doesn’t anyone “proofread” audio books? If I was the author I would demand a redo.

good stories

stories good although left out many important stories, pronunciation by narrator was very much off course

Very good!

I thought the stories were very good but the performance was terrible. The narrator mispronounced so many things I could not believe it. He pronounced Dan Wheldon's name "wheel-don." He also kept saying U-S-A-C instead of U-SAC. I guess the producers of the audio book do not know anything about Indy car racing.

Horrible Narrator

Great first person account of Jack Arute's many years at Indy. The audio book was ruined by the narrator's lack of familiarity with the subject matter. So many names were mispronounced. Poor, poor editing.

Mispronounced names throughout the story

The story is pretty good! We found most of the names of people mentioned in the book were mispronounced. It was very distracting to hear the stories not realizing who the story was about because of these glaring errors. I am new to audio books, I tend to lean towards reading. I joined audible to enjoy books while traveling in the car. My guess is that audible books are not edited as carefully as books? Fortunately I am very familiar with the subject matter of this book, otherwise this book would have been a complete waste of time. Almost humorous and a bit of a puzzle to solve listening.

Fun listen, but mispronunciations of well-known names a distraction

Some very interesting, insider stories. A little short on depth, but good for quick listens with a personal touch. Major issue, though, with constant mispronunciations of well-known people's names. Did the publisher even have one knowledge person listen to this before releasing? Amateurish and took away from the book's credibility.

aggravating reader

great stories, but unfortunately the reader was not a race fan and mispronounced many names.