Reading for Racers


NASCAR Then & Now

Pit Road Pets:
The Second Lap

Bill France Jr. - The Man
Who Made NASCAR

Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay,
and Big Bill France

He Crashed Me
So I Crashed Him Back

Growing Up NASCAR: Racing's Most Outrageous Promoter Tells All

Racing While Black
– How an African-American Stock Car Team Made
Its Mark on NASCAR

The Weekend Starts
on Wednesday:
True Stories of Remarkable
NASCAR Fans

MANMADE THUNDER

NASCAR Racers

The Dirt Under the Asphalt:
An Underground History of
Stock Car Racing

Pit Stop in a Southern Kitchen: Two Moms of
Racing Legends Serve Up Stories and Recipes

THE BLOUNT REPORT: NASCAR’s Most Overrated
& Underrated Drivers, Cars, Teams, and Tracks

Beach Racers: Daytona
Before NASCAR

ED OTTO – NASCAR’s
Silent Partner

THE PHYSICS OF NASCAR
– How to Make Steel + Gas
 + Rubber = Speed

PORTRAITS OF NASCAR

FACES OF NASCAR
– a Pictorial Salute to America’s Greatest Sport

THE 200-MPH BILLBOARD -
The Inside Story of How Big Money Changed NASCAR

NASCAR

DRIVE LIKE HELL:
NASCAR's Best Quotes
and Quips

THE GIRL’S GUIDE TO NASCAR

The NASCAR Family Album

ALL Around the Track:
Oral Histories of Drivers, Mechanics, Officials, Owners, Journalists and Others in Motorsports Past and Present

NASCAR Essential:
Everything You Need
to Know to be a Real Fan!

NASCAR’s Hidden History

SUNDAY MONEY:
Speed! Lust! Madness! Death! A Hot Lap Around America with NASCAR


NASCAR Best Shots:
The Greatest Photography
in NASCAR History

NASCAR Confidential

NASCAR Encyclopedia:
The Complete Record
of America’s
Most Popular Sport


NASCAR's Most Wanted

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NASCAR Then & Now

by Ben White with photography by
Nigel Kinrade and Smyle Media


In this unique gallery book, historical shots of people, cars, events, tracks, shops, and other NASCAR landmarks are paired with comparable modern shots to present a fascinating review of America's top motorsport.

See what Darlington looked like when it was built in 1950 compared to what it looks like now. Get a real sense of how pit stops have changed between 1949 and today. Compare a Ford stock car from 1962 with one from 2009.

Nowhere else can NASCAR fans so graphically trace the evolution of NASCAR’s growth from a humble but ambitious regional sport into a multibillion-dollar American institution. Part nostalgia, part celebration, this is the book every NASCAR fan will want for his or her library.

Hard cover, color and B&W photos,
144 pages.



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Pit Road Pets: The Second Lap

by Wendy Belk and photographer
Karen Will Rogers


For Stewart-Haas Racing driver Ryan Newman and wife Krissie, their six dogs aren’t just adored animals – they’re family. The Newmans have released their second book, Pit Road Pets: the Second Lap, which celebrates the NASCAR community and their beloved furry, hoofed, and sometimes even feathered families.

Pit Road Pets gives fans an intimate look at some of NASCAR’s favorite drivers, both past and present, their families and their love for animals. Crew chiefs, broadcast personalities, team owners and the people who work behind the scenes at races each weekend are also part of this book, which is loaded with wonderful color photographs.

The proceeds from the Newmans’ first book helped build a regional spay/neuter clinic at the Humane Society of Catawba Count in Hickory, N.C. One hundred percent of the Ryan Newman Foundation net proceeds from Pit Road Pets: the Second Lap will be donated to animal causes, such as giving grants to families that can’t afford to spay or neuter their pets. The Ryan Newman Foundation also plans to build an animal education center in North Carolina that will serve as a model for animal welfare and education throughout the U.S.

This is a book every animal-lover will want to read and give to friends!

Hard cover, 232 pages.




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Bill France Jr. - The Man Who
Made NASCAR


by Herb A. Branham

Former NASCAR president, chairman, and CEO Bill France Jr. is remembered and revered as the man who followed his visionary father at the helm of NASCAR, in the process becoming a visionary himself, as he guided NASCAR to unprecedented levels of popularity. Bill Jr. grew up in the formative years of stock car racing, living and learning every detail of the sport from his own experiences, and those of his father, NASCAR founder William Henry Getty France, known as Bill Sr. or Big Bill. In Bill France Jr. - The Man Who Made NASCAR, the life of Bill France Jr. is examined, starting with the day in 1934 when his family arrived at the then-sleepy town of Daytona Beach, Florida.

The biography covers Bill Jr.’s role in NASCAR’s formative years; his assumption of the NASCAR presidency; the sport’s explosion in popularity under his leadership; his courageous battle with cancer throughout the last decade of his life; and his final role, as NASCAR vice chairman and main advisor to NASCAR’s third-generation leader, his son, Chairman/CEO Brian France. Bill Jr. combined pragmatism with optimism, an approach that resulted in a calculated and adventurous road to success for NASCAR. That approach was marked always by an inimitable, colorful style now recalled as both endearing and intimidating. Bill France Jr. - The Man Who Made NASCAR gives the reader an insider’s look at a remarkable life.

Hard cover, 256 pages.



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Real NASCAR: White Lightning,
Red Clay, and Big Bill France


by Daniel S. Pierce

In this history of the stock car racing circuit we now know as NASCAR, Daniel Pierce offers a
revealing new look at the sport, from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks, through the early 1970s when the sport spread beyond its southern roots and gained national recognition.

Following NASCAR founder Big Bill France from his start as a mechanic, Real NASCAR details the sport's genesis as it has never been shown before. Pierce not only confirms the popular notion of NASCAR's origins in bootlegging, but also establishes beyond a doubt the close ties between organized racing and the illegal liquor industry, a story that readers will find both fascinating and controversial.

Although France faced many challenges–including a fickle Detroit that often seemed unsure of its support for the sport, safety issues that killed star drivers and threatened its very existence, and drivers who twice tried to unionize to gain a bigger piece of the NASCAR pie–by the early 1970s France and his allies had laid a firm foundation for what has become today a billion-dollar industry and arguably the largest spectator sport in America.

Hard cover, 365 pages.



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He Crashed Me So I Crashed
Him Back


by Mark Bechtel


On a cold February day in 1979, when most of the Northeast was snowed in by a blizzard, NASCAR entered the American consciousness with a dramatic telecast of the Daytona 500. It was the first 500-mile race to be broadcast live on national television and featured the heroes and legends of the sport racing on a hallowed track. With one of the wildest finishes in sports history–a finish that was just the start of the drama–everything changed for what is now America's second most popular sport.

He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back is the story of an emerging sport trying to find its feet. It's the story of how Bobby Allison, Donnie Allison, Cale Yarborough, Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Darrell Waltrip, A.J. Foyt, and Kyle Petty came together in an unforgettable season that featured the first nationally televised NASCAR races. There were rivalries–even the sibling kind–and plenty of fistfights, feuds, and frenzied finishes. Rollicking and full of larger-than-life characters, He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back is the remarkable tale of the birth of modern stock-car racing.

Hard cover, 320 pages.



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Growing Up NASCAR: Racing's Most Outrageous Promoter Tells All

by Humpy Wheeler and
Peter Golenbock


In 1949, when Humpy Wheeler was 11, he attended the very first NASCAR race. For the next ten years, he spent as much time in the pits as he could, and came to know many of the sport's pioneers. Eventually, Wheeler began promoting races at Carolina tracks such as Concord Speedway, Robinwood Speedway, and Starlight Speedway.

Racing was so rough back then he kept a gun by his side when he paid the purse, and often used his fists to keep order. By the time Wheeler retired in 2008, he had helped NASCAR become the six-billion-dollar-a-year industry it is today. Filled with photographs from Wheeler's personal archives,

Growing Up NASCAR
presents the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at NASCAR from the consummate insider.

Hard Cover, 304 pages.



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Racing While Black – How an African-American Stock Car Team Made Its Mark on NASCAR

by Leonard T. Miller and
Andrew Simon


Starting a NASCAR team is hard work.
Starting a NASCAR team as an African American is even harder. These are just a few of the lessons learned by Leonard T. Miller during his decade and a half of running an auto racing program.

Fueled by more than the desire to win, Miller made it his goal to create opportunities for black drivers in the vastly white, Southern world of NASCAR. Racing While Black chronicles the travails of selling marketing plans to skeptics and scraping by on the thinnest of budgets, as well as the triumphs of speeding to victory and changing the way racing fans view skin color. With his father—former drag racer and longtime team owner Leonard W. Miller—along for the ride, Miller journeys from the short tracks of the Carolinas to the boardrooms of the “Big Three” automakers to find out that his toughest race may be winning over the human race.

Leonard T. Miller is a second-generation African American auto racing team owner. He has fielded teams in NASCAR and open-wheel racing. Andrew Simon is a senior editor at ESPN The Magazine. His writing has appeared in The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, VIBE, and Complex.

Hard cover, 320 pages.

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The Weekend Starts on Wednesday: True Stories of Remarkable
NASCAR Fans


by Andrew Giangola, with Foreword by Tony Stewart and Afterword by Kyle Busch

In The Weekend Starts on Wednesday, NASCAR insider Andrew Giangola scoured the circuit and slept in school buses to find remarkable fans and tell their hilarious, heart-warming stories. With a keen eye for detail and uncommon humor, Giangola probes the open hearts and colorful experiences of the sport’s most fervent fans. His collection of amazing stories opens a new chapter on the extraordinary appeal of NASCAR, and shows why so many are so crazy about this great American sport.

Hard cover, 304 pages, 50 color photos.

 

 

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MANMADE THUNDER

by Godwin Kelly

MANMADE THUNDER is the new book from Godwin Kelly, widely acknowledged to be one of the best motorsports journalists in America. The book examines the sport of stock car racing through the eyes and ears of the men behind the wheel, the men with the wrenches in their hands, and those who pay the bills. Alongside the insightful text are over 250 stunning photographs, including many from the Don Hunter Collection and The Sharpe Image. The photography is unique; approximately two thirds of the images in the book have never been published before.

MANMADE THUNDER takes the reader through a visual and narrative journey of the sport – from humble beginnings of family cars raced on dirt tracks, to the glitz and glamour that has made today’s NASCAR a national phenomenon. The book examines how the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series has transformed from a purely performance-based sport into a personality-driven enterprise over the last two decades. While the main chapters focus on the current top drivers and past greats, the subchapters cleverly weave former legends and other aspects of the sport into the narrative. In addition, exclusive first person sections reveal what the drivers really think.

Hardbound, 320 pages,

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NASCAR Racers

by Ben White and Nigel Kinrade

The NASCAR drivers featured in these pages are the drivers who make stock car racing one of the fastest, and fastest-growing, sports around. They come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, from all corners of the country.

Some of NASCAR's top racers bear an impressive racing pedigree, with names like Earnhardt, Gordon and Johnson, names that have been part of stock car racing history for decades. Others have worked their way through anonymity to reach the top, possibly to begin a new line of racing greatness. NASCAR Racers profiles former champions and up-and-coming stars alike.

An array of colorful photographs accompany the personal and professional stories behind the leading racers on the circuit today, as well as a couple of veritable legends from recent years. Statistical tables allow you to compare the on-track successes of the different racers over the years. In words, images, and numbers, this book puts all you need to know about your favorite drivers at your fingertips.

April 2009, Soft cover, 256 pages,

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The Dirt Under the Asphalt:
An Underground History of
Stock Car Racing


by Jack Flowers

Many other books have been written about NASCAR, mainly about its drivers and other celebrities who compete in the sport of stock car racing, but there have been very few books written or published about the internal workings of NASCAR.

This book takes a look at NASCAR from day one to present-day and presents the author’s perception of how NASCAR has maintained its operation as a dictatorship since the late forties, how drugs played a part in its rapid rise in popularity, and how it has been run by the France family.

The Dirt under the Asphalt pulls no punches and paints no pretty pictures. It does, however, offer the author’s insight into the most prominent track owners and drivers who got NASCAR started and kept it going through tough times in the fifties and sixties.

Jack Flowers covered his first stock car race when he was sixteen and the sports editor of The Moultrie Observer (Georgia). Since then, Flowers, now 70, has worked for 11 different daily newspapers and auto racing trade publications that cover NASCAR. Today he still writes weekly stories about NASCAR for Area Auto Racing News and National Speed Sport News.

Soft cover, 40 pages.

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Pit Stop in a Southern Kitchen: Two Moms of Racing Legends Serve Up Stories and Recipes

by Martha Earnhardt and
Carol Gordon Bickford


Carol Gordon Bickford and Martha Earnhardt know all too well the demands that busy lifestyles can have on families. But they agree – making the choice to slow down and connect with family and friends is important. And there's no better way to bring people together than with the promise of home-cooked food.

Known as Mom and Mamaw to two of today's most recognized drivers, these gracious women welcome you into their kitchens for a timeless variety of mouth-watering dishes, along with family stories and nuggets of wisdom. You'll also enjoy eight color pages of personal photos and the inside scoop on the recipes that have brought their family and friends together. For generations, these treasured recipes and stories have been kept under wraps. Now Carol and Martha pry open their overstuffed recipe boxes to share those tried-and-true favorites that are sure to get you headed straight to the kitchen.

Hard cover, 224 pages.

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THE BLOUNT REPORT
- NASCAR’s Most Overrated & Underrated Drivers, Cars, Teams,
and Tracks


by Terry Blount

While fans continue to debate the relative merits of their favorite drivers, ESPN.com’s premier motor sports writer Terry Blount now brings some needed clarity and perspective to America’s biggest spectator sport, rating drivers, teams, cars, and tracks, and “bluntly” lets readers know which are overrated and which are underrated in a new book that’s bound to further the debate and stir up more controversy.

It’s an all-fun but in-depth look at the opinionated discussions fans have in their living rooms every weekend. Evaluating driver skills is a whopping task, even for the most knowledgeable folks in the sport. But Blount is one of the most qualified analysts, and well up to the task of trying to separate fact from fiction, reputation from reality, and equipment from talent.

Along with rating drivers, The Blount Report also rates a vast array of the NASCAR world from speedways to races and rules to records. It’s all up for debate. So fasten your seatbelt and enjoy…it may get a bit bumpy along the way but it’s well worth the ride.

Hard cover, 240 pages.

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Beach Racers: Daytona
Before NASCAR


by Dick Punnett

Every spring, hordes of fans descend on Florida for the Daytona 500, the famed first race in the NASCAR season. But real fans know that racers have been bringing fast cars to the beach for more than 100 years. Beach Racers portrays the thrills and dangers of the first automobile races in Daytona. In an era of poor roads, the flat, wide sands of Ormond and Daytona beaches proved to be the ideal venue for engineers and drivers pushing the technological envelope, looking for ways to make their cars go ever faster.

For nearly a decade (1903-1910) land speed records were routinely set and broken by automakers such as Mercedes, Winton, Napier, Darracq, and Stanley Steamer thanks in part to financing from such business tycoons as Stanley brothers and Vanderbilt. Dick Punnett has scoured libraries, auto museums, and historical societies throughout Florida, the Northeast, and the Midwest to track down stunning photographs and primary sources to learn what really happened during these early races. Filled with riveting photographs, fascinating anecdotes, and authoritative lists of winners, contestants, and record-setters, Beach Racers is a must-have for every true fan of NASCAR.

Soft Cover, 168 pages.

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ED OTTO – NASCAR’s Silent Partner



By Edgar Otto and Joann Biondi


The gripping story of a Yankee who worked alongside Bill France from 1949-1963, helping transform a scrappy group of guys into the most successful racing organization in the world.

Full of photography and never-before-told stories – some that will surprise historians. A rollicking ride through the colorful early days of racing.

Hard Cover, 208 pages, 189 photos.

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THE PHYSICS OF NASCAR – How to Make Steel + Gas + Rubber = Speed

By Diandra Leslie-Pelecky

Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, a physics professor at the University of Texas (Dallas), reveals how and why drivers trust the engineering and science their teams literally build around them not only to make them winners but to keep them alive.  Based on the author’s extensive access to race shops and team personnel, this book traces the life cycle of a race car from the drawing board to victory lane.  Foreword by Ray Evernham.

Hard cover, 288 pages;
diagrams but no photography    





 

 

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PORTRAITS OF NASCAR

By Anita Rich and Robin Dallenbach

Anita Rich and Robin Dallenbach (Wally’s wife) have assembled a very unusual book that captures photographically the personal and family perspectives of key players.  Included are 31 racing celebrities, among them Junior, Ray Evernham, Humpy Wheeler, Jack Roush, Greg Biffle, and Dave Blaney.  The photos, all black and white, are of unusually high quality, printed on heavy glossy stock.  There is very little text, letting the photos speak for themselves.

181 pages, hard cover,
b&w photography          

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FACES OF NASCAR – a Pictorial Salute to America’s Greatest Sport

by Scott Robinson

The action on the track isn’t the only story in NASCAR. In a sport that has transcended its "playing field" to become a cultural phenomenon, NASCAR racing has become as much about the star driver, the grizzled crew chief, the calculating team owner, the hard-working pit crew, the skilled hands back at the race shop, and the die-hard fans as it is about brightly colored cars speeding by at 200 mph.

Through evocative candid portrait photo-graphy from the lens of Scott Robinson, Faces of NASCAR explores the full spectrum of people involved in the Nextel Cup series, from drivers to officials to spectators. Each subject is photographed in a striking portrait, with incredible detail. Robinson's simple, yet powerful photographic portrayals highlight the passion, intensity, and joy these racing diehards feel when they are spending the weekend at the track.

A must-have for any NASCAR fan, Faces of NASCAR speaks to the human side of this exciting and fascinating sport through these portraits as well as commentary from those who love this sport most.

Hardcover, 192 pages

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THE 200-MPH BILLBOARD -
The Inside Story of How Big Money Changed NASCAR

by Mark Yost

What began on the dusty racetracks of the rural South is now a world-class enterprise, as closely watched by Wall Street as by hometown racing fans. How NASCAR grew from its provincial roots to become a big business of international proportions is the story Mark Yost tells in The 200-MPH Billboard.

A seasoned sports and business reporter for the Wall Street Journal and contributor to the New York Times and the Sports Business Journal, Yost demystifies the economics and politics behind NASCAR sponsorship. His book takes us behind the scenes of some of the head-turning corporate deals that altered the way NASCAR does business.

From Junior Johnson’s contract with Darrell Waltrip and Mountain Dew to deals between the likes of Dale Jr. and Budweiser, Tony Stewart and Home Depot, NASCAR and Fox Television, this book clearly tracks the subtle and not-so-subtle transformations that corporate sponsorship has wrought in recent years. And it offers a rare insiders look at what these changes have meant for NASCAR and its devoted fans.

Hard cover, 320 pages.

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NASCAR

by Steve Casper and Nigel Kinrade

It’s America’s hottest ticket, and it’s in
your hand. Take in the excitement of NASCAR – the drivers, the tracks, the down-to-the-wire finishes.

With scores of full-color photographs from one of the sport’s top cameramen, this book offers a fast-paced look at everything NASCAR: the lives of the superstars; the greatest courses; the NASCAR lingo; and the best and worst of NASCAR songs, video games, and movies about stock car racing.

Whether you’re a newcomer or a diehard fan, in for a quick fix or the full experience, here is the nation’s most popular sport in all its split-second glory.


Soft cover, 192 pages, color photography throughout.

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DRIVE LIKE HELL: NASCAR's Best Quotes and Quips

by Eric Zweig

"Don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Get the hell out of the race car if you have feathers on your legs or butt." - Dale Earnhardt Sr. NASCAR racing is fast, furious and filled with colorful characters who have lots to say -- sometimes at the most inopportune times.

Drive Like Hell celebrates the wit and wisdom of the NASCAR circuit. Race fans of all ages will love this entertaining collection of quotes and quips from today's stars and the legends of auto racing.

Soft cover, 176 pages.

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THE GIRL’S GUIDE TO NASCAR

by Liz Allison

This lively book tackles all the ins and outs of NASCAR, uncovering the hidden rules and official calls made on any given race day.

Media correspondent Liz Allison, wife of the late NASCAR driver Davey Allison, takes a fun and detailed approach to explaining the official point and flag systems, regulations on cars, and how drivers make it to the start/finish line.

Allison also covers the less serious side, offering helpful tips to female fans on traveling to and from race events, surviving an entire race weekend with kids, and recipes for throwing a great NASCAR viewing party.

Readers will quickly become knowledgeable race fans with an inside edge on the sport most of their male counterparts will lack and have a few laughs along the way.

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The NASCAR Family Album

By H.A. Branham

Herb Branham has produced an extraordinary hard cover collection of photos, mementos, and stories of NASCAR’s most illustrious racing families.

Included are Frances, Jarretts, Flocks, Labontes, Waltrips, Earnhardts, Pearsons, Pettys, Allisons, Wallaces, and some 20 others. 

Crammed with all manner of plastic-encased collectibles, this weighty volume is highly unusual and will provide hours and hours of entertainment for the serious NASCAR devotee.

Hard cover, 192 pages, black and white and color photos       

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All Around the Track: Oral Histories of Drivers, Mechanics, Officials, Owners, Journalists and Others in Motorsports Past and Present

by Anne B. Jones and Rex White

From authors Anne Jones and former NASCAR champion Rex White, here are oral histories of over 50 individuals from stock car and drag racing’s not-so-distant past and present.

Rich with original interviews and previously unpublished material, it includes drivers such as David Pearson, Junior Johnson, Bobby Allison, Bob Glidden and Hubert Platt; mechanics and builders; track crew; sportswriters; and owners such as Joe and J.D. Gibbs.

Features many photographs and a foreword by Atlanta Motor Speedway President Ed Clark.

Soft cover, 256 pages, 62 photos.

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NASCAR Essential: Everything You Need to Know to be a Real Fan!

by David Poole and Jim McLaurin

NASCAR is one of the world's most popular sports, and everything you need to know about it is in NASCAR Essential: the heroes, the villains, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, the great races and devastating crashes.

Looking for a handy reference for milestones in NASCAR history? It's here, as are the greatest moments and biggest disappointments, the biggest goats and the biggest heroes, and all the personalities that make NASCAR such an endearing and captivating sport: legendary personalities such as Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough, and Dale Earnhardt, as well as today's and tomorrow's stars, such as Dale Jr., Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, and Matt Kenseth.

Stories, Statistics, Facts, Figures anecdotes trivia and more!

Hard cover, 210 pages, black and white photos throughout.

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NASCAR Best Shots: The Greatest Photography in NASCAR History

Forward by Richard Petty

From the very first NASCAR Winston Cup race in Daytona to President Bush's congratulating the 2003 Winston Cup winners, NASCAR's Best Shots offers the most compelling images of one of America's fastest growing sport.

See spectacular photographs of emotional wins, spectacular crashes (from which drivers walk away unharmed), spinouts, smoke signals, pit crews at work, and fans enjoying the show. Witness some of the best drivers, fastest tracks, and great moments in the 53-year history of NASCAR.

Hard cover, 11” x 9”, 160 pages
Color photos throughout

and now available in Soft cover

 



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NASCAR Confidential

By Peter Golenbock

Best-selling author Peter Golenbock interviewed a wide range of known and not-so-well-known players in the NASCAR game, ranging from the feisty female racer from the 1950s, Louise Smith, to the legendary champion Fred Lorenzen and announcer Benny Parsons.

Golenbock has assembled a collection of stories that tells the tale of not only NASCAR’s transformation from a regional backwater sport to an empire, but also brings to light new twists on the most dramatic stories of the sport.

Hard cover, 6” x 9”, 416 pages
25 black & white photos