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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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S-1065
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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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S-1059
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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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S-1054
Price: $24.95
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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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S-1044
Price: $24.95
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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.
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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
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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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S-974
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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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S-886
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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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S-891
Price: $29.95
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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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S-752
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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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S-710
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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
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