Tale of Outlaw Racing

For fans of Cannonball Run and the Gumball 3000.

The maneuver, he said, enabled him to break a 23-year-old illegal endurance-driving record by navigating from New York to Los Angeles in 31 hours 4 minutes. He said he recorded an average speed of 90.1 m.p.h. over a mapped route of 2,794 miles.

These and other moving violations are described in his memoir, which was released yesterday by HarperCollins. The book, “The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World,” describes a subculture of illegal endurance racing and efforts to break transcontinental records set in the 1970s and ’80s.

“If people want to try it, the roads are open,” Yates said.

While I've never done anything like this, I have to admit that outlaw racing is a blast. Go out and try it sometime.