[PDF] Nascars Wild Years eBook

Author : Joe Menzer
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 2002-06-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780743226257

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In The Wildest Ride, Joe Menzer gives us a timely, comprehensive look at the dramatic, rollicking history of stock-car racing in America, exploring both its inauspicious bootlegging beginnings and the billion-dollar industry that it has become. Menzer straps the reader into the driver's seat for a run through NASCAR's history, revealing the sport's remarkable rise from rogue outfit to corporate darling. Menzer also profiles the many superstar drivers who have dominated the sport, men as unpredictable as they are fearless, including "The Intimidator," Dale Earnhardt, whose ferocious driving made him NASCAR's signature personality -- and whose tragic death at the 2001 Daytona 500 was mourned by millions. Menzer expertly maneuvers through the tight corners and wide-open straightaways of NASCAR's history, examining the circuit's attempt to distance itself from its "redneck racin'" past without compromising its country roots. Simultaneously rowdy and insightful, The Wildest Ride is a thorough and unfailingly honest account of NASCAR's amazing rise to prominence and a sweeping account of a uniquely American phenomenon.

Author : Editors of Life
Publisher : Life
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 2002-10-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781931933193

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Combines rare photographs and vivid writing to capture the entire panorama of racing, from the wild and woolly early days to the bigger-than-life, modern-day heroes, from the emergence of the Indy 500 as the world's greatest single race to the unparalledled impact of NASCAR.

Author : A. R. Schaefer
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736852333

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Get your readers closer to the track with NASCAR Racing. From lug nuts to wind tunnels, this set explores the parts, personalities, and perils of stock car racing.

Author : Ben White
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2024-10-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0760391238

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"Hendrick Motorsports celebrates the NASCAR-champion team's 40th anniversary in competition. Forty stories from the 1980s to today relate the team's full history in this officially licensed book"--

Author : John Close
Publisher : CarTech Inc
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1613253109

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For nearly 70 years, NASCAR has been the premier sanctioning body for organized Stock Car Racing in the United States. During that time, the sport has grown from a Southern, regional series to a global brand with its races telecast in more than 100 countries around the world.

Author John Close details the earliest races of the 20th Century that laid the groundwork for the formation of NASCAR through today's modern events at mega-race stadiums across the country. Presented in an easy-to-read decade-by-decade "Fact Format," this books allows you to spend a couple of minutes or hours at a time learning about the Cars (and Trucks), Personalities, Tracks, and Milestones of NASCAR, America's most popular and attended form of motorsports. Close, a longtime NASCAR journalist, author, team member, and race-day Spotter, also includes dozens of rare and informative photos that take you from the famed "Beach Course" at Daytona to the high banks of today's NASCAR tracks. A must read for any NASCAR, Stock Car Racing, and American Motorsports fan, the book will provide hours of interesting entertainment as it uncovers rare information and statistical anomalies. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial}

Author : William Burt
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release :
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781610591201

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A guide to NASCAR drivers including over 80 of the top drivers from the sport's inception to the present. Drivers are covered with photographs, year-by-year and track-by-track statistics.

Author : G. Wayne Miller
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786751983

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What is it that makes a man strap himself into an automobile and drive it hundreds of laps around a track at speeds surpassing 200 miles per hour? Critically acclaimed journalist G. Wayne Miller decided to find out by spending a year on the NASCAR circuit with Roush Racing's legendary owner Jack Roush and his four title-contending Winston Cup drivers: Mark Martin, Jeff Burton, Matt Kenseth, and Kurt Busch. Miller plumbs the allure of speed and the exploding popularity of stock-car racing through the dramatic 2001 season, which opened with the most famous Daytona 500 in history, when NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt died as his car slammed into the wall on the final turn. Miller takes us inside the minds and behind the wheels of the of the hottest drivers of the past two seasons, as they cope with the thrills and the dangers along the way to the Cup. Miller also takes us inside Roush Racing, a $125 million business, showing a side of NASCAR that few fans ever get to see. For longtime fans and curious newcomers alike, Men and Speed takes you for a wild ride through the fastest sport in the land.

Author : Jim Francis
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778731863

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Traces the history of NASCAR racing since its beginning in the 1940s, and tracks its growth and development over the years, NASCAR champions, and famous racing families.

Author : Mark D. Howell
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 15,92 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780879727406

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Howell (cultural history, Michigan State U.) describes the features, activity, and impact of the annual 32-race, 10-month stock car competition. He focuses on the role of corporate sponsors in transforming the sport from an amateur pastime to a big-money media event. Paper edition (unseen), $21.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jim McLaurin
Publisher : Potomac Books Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781574883589

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Tim Flock once raced with a monkey in his car. When the 1961 Western North Carolina 500 was declared over after only 250 miles because of a deteriorating track surface, 4,000 fans held the drivers hostage. Driver Lloyd Seay was shot and killed by a cousin in a dispute over payment for a load of sugar used in their moonshining operation. One of NASCAR’s earliest tracks, in Daytona, Florida, used a beach for one straightaway and a public highway for the other. Containing fifty lists of the top-ten drivers, tracks, finishes, technological innovations, and so on, NASCAR's Most Wanted™ will inform and amuse diehard fans and newcomers to the fast-growing, always exciting world of stock car racing.