MODIFIED STOCK CAR RACING OF THE ’60s and ’70s
by Steve Kennedy

SENNA – No Fear, No limits, No Equal (DVD)

This unusual and acclaimed film captures the life of the Brazilian Formula One star, Ayrton Senna.  It is simply extraordinary.  The racing footage is incredible, all done with original footage, portraying the essence of this driven man, his almost beyond human talent, and the emotional depth of his fatal crash leading the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994.

LONE WOLF
by Doug Wolfgang & Dave Argabright 

There are some books that will be with you forever, and this is one of them. There is clearly a special chemistry between Doug Wolfgang and Dave Argabright.  It took them far into the tales of Wolfie’s humble beginnings in the Dakotas, to his glorious role as one of WoO’s “big three,” to the horrible crashes that ended his career.  The very candid description of Doug’s physical and psychological challenges, of the divisive lawsuit, and of life going forward cements the Wolf as one of racing’s all time most admirable performers.  Foreword by Steve Kinser.

HARD DRIVING: The American Odyssey of NASCAR’s First Black Driver
by Brian Donovan

Pulitzer Prize winner and former racer from upstate New York, Brian Donavan presents poignantly the story of Wendell Scott’s lonely racing journey and points to its huge significance in American social history.  The hardship and abuse faced by Scott, the 1959 Virginia State Sportsman champ, was simply horrendous.  Scott won his first Cup race in 1963 in Jacksonville, FL, but race officials apparently had trouble acknowledging that a black man had won.  However, the Scott Family did eventually get the trophy – in 2010, 20 years after Wendell’s death.  

OLD HOT ROD SCRAPBOOK:
Memories from the Past
by Don Montgomery

Author Don Montgomery, who has written eight books about hot rod history, first showed up at Russetta, CA, dry lake time trials in 1948 with a 1941 Hudson coach.  His scrapbook is a period piece, with the look and feel of those times.  It’s informal, unpolished, but nicely presented in hard over with hundreds of photos.  He covers early street rodding, circle track beginnings, dry lakes, and very early drags. This is Flathead City, with deuce coupes and roadsters galore from that wonderful era in California, where it all began.  Don’s final words: “Too bad it’s all gone!” 

WIN IT OR WEAR IT - All-Time Great Sprint Car Tales
by Joyce Standridge

Joyce starts out her book saying, “Rick and I were married at church, but there convention ended as our reception was held in Springfield  Speedway’s ‘penthouse,’ a discount-house-decorated room atop a storage shed on the property.”  Joyce knows sprint cars. That’s the reason this is such a special read. There are no records in WIN IT OR WEAR IT – just great photography and story after story about the outrageousness, joy, and perils of sprint car racing and its characters. 

2012 NATIONAL SPEEDWAY DIRECTORY AND THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN SPEEDWAYS COMBO

 If you want to find out where the racing is these days and where it used to be, you’ve just got to have these two volumes.  The DIRECTORY covers the approximately 1300 current oval tracks, drag strips, and road courses all over the US and Canada with full listings of contact info, configuration, race dates, and car types.  The HISTORY is a Herculean effort by traveling racing journalist Allan Brown, which profiles the thousands of tracks that have offered racing over time.  Ever wonder what happened what went down years ago on that overgrown facility out on Rt. 101?  This amazing compilation, the ultimate reference book, has your answer.