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Bathurst winner, Australian Touring Car Champion, Australian Rally Champion - This is the high-octane story of motor racing legend Colin Bond.
From his rallying crowns to 1969 Bathurst victory and his 1975 Australian Touring Car Championship triumph, to the hugely controversial 1–2 Bathurst finish behind Allan Moffat in 1977, Bond's career spanned the most thrilling decades of Australian motorsport. At the heart of it all was the fierce tribal battle between Ford and Holden – a rivalry Bond knew better than anyone.
Against the backdrop of the golden age of motorsport, Full Tilt is packed with accounts of racing with and against superstars like Peter Brock and Allan Moffat.
It captures the drama and intense competition of the 1960s to the 1990s, the incredibly-engineered Monaros, Toranas, Falcons and Commodores, the dirty tricks, dodgy deals and maverick team managers.
A celebration of speed, skill and the defining era of motor-racing, Full Tilt is essential reading for any lover of the sport.
Written with bestselling motorsport journalist John Smailes - this is the incredible story of a life raced at full tilt.