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S-1770
Price: $34.95
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Ray Evernham: Trophies and Scars
by Ray Evernham with Joe Garner
foreword by Jeff Gordon
Trophies and Scars
is Ray Evernham's personal account of his
extraordinary career, including his time as crew chief for NASCAR
phenom Jeff Gordon and more.
Co-authored by
six-time
New York Times
bestselling author Joe Garner, Trophies
and Scars takes readers
back to Ray's gritty days driving in New Jersey and through his
incredible partnership with Jeff Gordon, which led to one of the
most dominant runs in NASCAR history.
It is also a window into some of the deeply
painful challenges Evernham experienced on the track and off, and
the rich rewards that overcoming those challenges brought.
Hard cover, 400 pages.
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S-1767
Price: $24.95
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All of It: Daytona
500 Champion Tells
the Rest of the Story
by Geoff Bodine with Dominic Aragon
This autobiography, written in collaboration with Dominic Aragon,
takes a closer look at Bodine’s life, from growing up in New York to
aspirations of competing in the Daytona 500, his life as a
professional race car driver, his deep faith and more.
Bodine competed in NASCAR’s top division from 1979 to 2011. During
that span, Bodine raced for legendary car owners, competed for
championships, won the sport’s biggest race, had a fierce rivalry
with the late Dale Earnhardt, competed as an owner-driver following
the death of Alan Kulwicki, and survived a fiery crash in a NASCAR
Truck Series race at Daytona.
The foreword is written by Rick Hendrick, the legendary owner of
Hendrick Motorsports, who selected Bodine to be his first driver.
Bodine has also been a leader in many safety items and products used
in racing today.
He was led by God and by his love of being an American to design,
build, and furnish at no cost to the American athletes Olympic
bobsleds called the Bo-Dyn bobsleds.
Soft cover, 328 pages.
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S-1745
Price: $29.95
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STILL RACING!
by Ken
Schrader with Joyce Standridge
Ken Schrader is still winning races 52 years into his
driving career. Nearly two decades after the release of his popular
first book, the NASCAR and short-track icon shares many new tales of
his exploits through 48 states and Canada.
Racing’s finest
and funniest ambassador takes readers along on and off the track as
only he can.
Soft cover, 276 pages, 275 color
and B&W
photos.
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S-1715
Price: $39.95
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SEA TO SHINING SEA
Racing From the Wild West to Daytona
by
Ken Clapp with Bones Bourcier
A West Coast racing history and memoir, rolled into
one engaging and illuminating package.
Ken Clapp has been a
wide-eyed young spectator, a teenaged crewman, a tireless promoter,
NASCAR’s Vice-President of Western Operations, eyewitness to some of
the sport’s biggest moments, and friend to many key figures
throughout the decades of his racing life.
Clapp’s story is
told by one of the best motorsports writers in the U.S., Bones
Bourcier.
Hard cover, 420
pages, 165 color and B&W photos.
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S-1735
Price: $32.00
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ALAN
KULWICKI NASCAR CHAMPION:
Against All Odds
By Fr.
Dale Grubba
Alan Kulwicki won the Winston Cup Championship in
1992 but died only months later in an airplane crash in Tennessee at
age 38. This is the true-to-life story of how Alan Kulwicki, from
his start in Wisconsin short tracks, moved up to take a NASCAR
championship
Fr. Dale Grubba followed and documented Kulwicki’s
entire career.
Includes a chronological listing of all the races in
Alan Kulwicki’s career, plus new information about the Kulwicki
Driver Development Program to help up-and-coming young racers.
Soft cover, 552 pp., 100+ B&W photos.
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S-1737
Price: $48.00
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One More Lap:
Jimmie Johnson and the #48
by
Robert
Sullivan, Ivan Shaw, et al.
Celebrating the astonishing career and life of American race car
driver and consecutive NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson,
through photographs taken throughout his career. His historic seven
NASCAR Cup Series championship titles are shared with NASCAR Hall of
Famers Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt as the most of all time. In
the storied history of NASCAR auto racing, Johnson is one of the
most accomplished and decorated professional athletes of his era and
the only race car driver ever to be named Associated Press Male
Athlete of the Year.
Johnson
began exploring his passion for art and photography by hiring
photographers such as Andrew Moore and Pari Dukovic to record behind
the scenes at many of his races. With a foreword from sports legend
Michael Jordan, this volume captures photographs from Johnson’s
early life and the beginning of his illustrious career and features
exhilarating racing snapshots by renowned photographers Sebastian
Kim and Peggy Sirota, as well as images taken by Johnson himself.
Hard cover, 272-page photo book.
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S-1727SC
Price: $18.95
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SWERVE OR DIE
Life at My Speed in the
First Family
of NASCAR Racing
by Kyle
Petty with Ellis Henican
Stock-car racing star, country singer, and sports broadcaster Kyle
Petty shares his familial legacy, intertwined with NASCAR's founding
and history, in Swerve or Die - written with Pulitzer
Prize-winner Ellis Henican, the New York Times bestselling coauthor
of In the Blink of an Eye.
"Born
into racing royalty. The only son of NASCAR's winningest driver
ever. The grandson of one of the sport's true pioneers. The nephew
of our very first Hall of Fame engine builder. It's quite a family
to represent, and through it all, I've somehow managed to keep being
Kyle."
Kyle
Petty won his very first stock-car race, the Daytona ARCA 200, in
1979 when he was eighteen. Hailed as a third-generation professional
NASCAR racer, he became an instant celebrity in circles he had been
around all his young life. Despite being the grandson and son of
racing champions Lee Petty and Richard Petty, Kyle didn't inherit
innate talent. Working in his family's North Carolina race shop from
an early age, he learned all about car mechanics and maintenance
long before he got behind the wheel. And although Kyle continued the
family business, driving "Petty blue" colored cars emblazoned with
his grandfather's #42 - a number once used by Marty Robbins - his
career took a different route than his forebears'.
In
Swerve or Die: Life at My Speed in the First Family of NASCAR Racing,
Kyle chronicles his life on and off the racetrack, presenting his
insider's perspective of growing up throughout the sport's popular
rise in American culture. In between driving and running Petty
Enterprises for thirty years, Kyle took some detours into country
music, voiced Cal Weathers in Pixar's Cars 3, and started his annual
motorcycle Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America. And when his
nineteen-year-old son Adam, a fourth-generation racing Petty,
tragically lost his life on the track, Kyle founded Victory
Junction, a camp for children with chronic and serious medical
conditions in Adam's name―with help from Academy Award-winning actor
and motorsports enthusiast Paul Newman.
Filled
with NASCAR history, stories of his family's careers, and anecdotes
about some of stock-car racing's most famous drivers, Kyle's memoir
also tackles the sport's evolution, discussing how welcoming diverse
racers, improving car and track safety features, and integrating
green technology will benefit NASCAR's competitors and fans in the
future.
Soft cover, 288 pp., color/B&W photos.
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S-1717
Price: $35.00
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by Al Pearce and Mike Hembree
Did you know that Richard Petty's first win was overturned
due to a protest . . . by his dad? That Ned Jarrett won his first
race in a car he bought with a bad check, banking on the winnings to
pay it off? That Mario Andretti defied team orders to bag his first
NASCAR win? That Tiny Lund nabbed his first NASCAR victory because
he rescued a fellow driver from a fiery wreck?
All this and more comes to light in 50
First Victories, which
chronicles the journey of NASCAR’s best as they drive their way to
that landmark first victory. You’ll read about Richard Petty at
Charlotte, Dale Earnhardt Sr. at Bristol, Jimmie Johnson at Fontana,
Chase Elliott at Watkins Glen, and more. Journalists Al Pearce and
Mike Hembree have been along for the ride for much of NASCAR's long
history. With a combined 90 years of coverage of one of America's
grassroots sports, they bring a wealth of knowledge and experience
to the stories of these fast-and-furious heroes, drivers who ran to
the ragged edge - and often past it - in pursuit of the checkered
flag. Here are all the sport's stars - Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt
Sr., Dale Earnhardt Jr., Cale Yarborough, Darrell Waltrip, Jeff
Gordon, David Pearson, Jimmie Johnson, Junior Johnson - and the
inside stories of their success.
Hard cover, 244 pp.
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S-1710
Orig.Price: $60.00
Now: $39.95
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Dirt Tracks to Glory:
The Early Days
of Stock Car Racing As Told by the Participants
by Sylvia
Wilkinson
More
than forty years ago, Sylvia Wilkinson took her note pad, a tape
recorder and an open mind to the dirt bull rings and backwoods of
garages in the American South in the hopes of capturing the
reflections of the people who made NASCAR stock car racing happen.
What she encountered were the folksy origins, colorful characters
and rough beginnings of today's billion-dollar sport.
In
this all-new, beautifully designed and illustrated edition of
Dirt Tracks to Glory we return to the very personal and often
hilarious inside stories of sharp-witted people who became legends
in the early days of NASCAR. Bill France Sr, Humpy Wheeler, Curtis
Turner, "Little Joe" Weatherly, Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, the Flock
Brothers, Banjo Matthews, Smokey Yunick and a host of others emerge
from these pages with their personal reflections and wry commentary
on the way it was in the days of "haulin' shine", bangin' fenders
and out-smartin' the other hot-shoes on Saturday nights.
Author
Wilkinson says: "This book was told to me by and about the people
who went with stock car racing from its beginnings...It is not an
encyclopedia of stock car racing biographies, but a series of
individual remembrances and perspectives of one special revelation
of the American dream - from Dirt tracks to Glory!"
Hard
cover with dust jacket, 208 pages, 100+ B&W photos.
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S-1678
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A Little Bit
Sideways: Battling Giants
in NASCAR's Golden Age
by
Scott Huler
Foreword by Kenny Wallace
Second Edition
Originally published in 1999, Scott Huler and Kenny Wallace have
taken a look back at the original release, added a Foreword and let
us recall what it was like to race in NASCAR's "glory days."
You will spend a tumultuous week behind the scenes with Wallace
and the Square D guys as their independently funded team fights to
compete with the best of the best in the 1990s. This rambunctious
tour takes you into the driver's seat, the parties, the race shop,
the broadcast booth, and beyond, providing a look at the sport
during the height of NASCAR popularity. As Jeff Gordon, Dale
Earnhardt, Dale Jarrett and other legends fight for the
championship, Kenny Wallace and the Square D team battle to qualify
and stay relevant in an era when a spot in Sunday's show was hotly
contested and not guaranteed.
Author
Huler spent months with the team so he could chronicle how stock car
racing works through the window of the 1997 races at Martinsville
and Charlotte Motor Speedway. The result is a dramatic read that
offers insight on the inner workings of a NASCAR team, from tire and
gas strategy to engineering, car set-up, and the fine points of a
fabulous pit stop.
Throughout the book, the author captures
Wallace's passionate personality and takes the reader into all
corners of NASCAR racing, from tech inspections and RVs in the
infield to cocktail parties and banging fenders on the track.
In A Little Bit Sideways, author Scott Huler goes
over the wall and does for NASCAR what Roger Angell did for
baseball, David Foster Wallace did for tennis, and Hunter S.
Thompson did for the Kentucky Derby--capture the soul of the sport
with gritty, honest reporting of its colorful characters and
distinctive landscapes.
Soft Cover, 316 pages.
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S-1667
Price: $44.95
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I WAS A NASCAR REDNECK
Recollections of the transformation of a Yankee farm boy to a
Southern redneck in the Golden Era of NASCAR and beyond
by Will Cronkrite
Foreword by H.A. “Humpy” Wheeler
Will Cronkrite was at the heart of NASCAR during its golden years.
As a car builder, crew chief, and team owner he was responsible for
numerous race car innovations, as well as launching the careers of
such greats as Ricky Rudd and Dale Earnhardt Sr.
In this surprisingly candid memoir, Cronkrite opens
up the shop door to his life and invites you in with fast-paced and
often humorous tales that take you from NASCAR to Hollywood and
back, with countless adventures in between.
Soft cover, 611
pp., 145 photos.
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S-1532
Price: $39.95
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JEFF GORDON: His
Dream, Drive & Destiny
by Joe Garner
The
first-ever authorized biography of Jeff Gordon, the four-time
champion racing legend. For over a year, Garner interviewed and
observed Gordon at races, special events, and at home.
The
book is based on extensive interviews with Gordon – as well as
in-depth interviews with dozens of family members, friends,
competitors, and colleagues, some of whom have never gone on the
record before. Jeff speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about
his childhood, his much publicized divorce, those he competed
against, his family, and life after racing.
This fully
illustrated hard cover biography will allow privileged access to a
wealth of exclusive unseen and rare material from Gordon’s personal
photo and memorabilia collection. Gordon’s meteoric rise through
racing’s ranks is a classic American success story.
Readers
will find inspiration in Gordon’s candid take on his pivotal life
episodes.
Hard cover, 192 pages, fully illustrated with
color and B&W photos and other illustrations. Will be released
October 18. Pre-order before October 15 for free shipping.
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