John’s stories will take you to race tracks and race shops and you’ll be spellbound if that’s your interest. This definitely is John’s story, and my compliments and thanks to Gurss for letting John tell his story rather than inserting his own voice into the book. It was as if John was sitting there in my living room, telling his stories and sharing life and lessons. But there was a lot more laughter than tears. I opened the book reluctantly, and immediately alternated between tears and laughter. But publisher Lee Klancher and publicist Jo Snyder also are friends and they sent me a copy anyway. To be truthful, I hadn’t responded when Octane Press offered a review copy of the book. His death earlier this year took him from us way too soon.īut before he left, John Andretti spent time with author Jade Gurss to share that life and its lessons with us in book form. He and his wife, Nancy, had become friends. Because John Andretti was more than another athlete to write about back when I was covering sports and especially auto racing. Sorry, I had to stop writing for a few moments to wipe tears and to regain my composure. He was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer, and in the time he had left he not only fought the disease but campaigned for everyone in the racing community and far beyond to have a colonoscopy, and to do so earlier than might be recommended because the disease could be treated if discovered early enough. And then, on January 28, 2017, his life changed.
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