Though I’m certainly not the target audience for this book, I can certainly imagine some of my boys thinking it’s really cool.  And they’ll actually be getting some solid information into the bargain.  This little volume does a clear job of describing the history of drag racing and explaining the differences between different types of cars and events.  It nearly got a “Recommended” rating, but for some gripes I had with the design of the layout:  there are all these yellow pages inserted into the body of the book, with “Smoking Facts.”  if the layout had been reconfigured, so that these fell between sections (or at least between paragraphs), it would’ve been better.  Falling as they do, often mid-sentence as the reader turns the page, the result is that they interrupt the readers’ flow, making for choppy reading.