AUTHOR LIVES IN MELBOURNE. Writer Andrew Clarke loves sports - especially car racing and Aussie Rules Football - and has been lucky enough to blend these loves with work. After starting his career as a football journalist, he transitioned into motorsport and general motoring. He wrote his first book on the history of the Australian automobile, and has written a further 30 books on car races and racing and Australian Rules Football. He has also ghostwritten autobiographies with seven athletes and personalities. Andrew has loved NASCAR racing since its days at the Calder Park Thunderdome, and once raced in an Australian support series called Sportsman.