NASCAR Chronicle
Author : Greg Fielden
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781412713313
Author : Greg Fielden
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781412713313
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Stock car racing
ISBN : 9781450890601
Stock car racing got its start during the Great Depression, with drivers competing on dusty dirt tracks in front of small crowds and for scant prize money. How times have changed. The sport embodied in the juggernaut that is NASCAR now reaches into every corner of America, claims fans of all stripes, and fills the largest sports venues in the country weekend after noisy weekend. This is the story told in NASCAR: Yesterday & Today, part of Publications International s Yesterday & Today series of definitive sports histories. The book, written by the auto editors of Consumer Guide with a foreword by racing legend Darrell Waltrip, features hundreds of original photographs and comprehensive descriptions of: The drivers. From early legends like Red Byron, Marshall Teague, Fonty Flock, and Tim Flock to modern dominators like Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Sr., and Dale Earnhardt Jr. The cars. Starting with the modified prewar coupes of NASCAR s early races to today s high-tech automotive experiments. The tracks. Spectacular then-and-now photographs of the courses that have witnessed history. The events. From the days when Daytona meant a race literally on Daytona Beach to Jimmie Johnson s stylish burnout in front of the Wynn Hotel on the Las Vegas strip during Champions Week 2009. Throughout the book we also learn the story of the France family specifically Big Bill, Little Bill, and Brian who steered NASCAR into the hearts of racing fans over the course of seven decades. For the NASCAR enthusiast, there is no better, more readable and enjoyable history than NASCAR: Yesterday & Today.
Author : Greg Fielden
Publisher :
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 45,62 MB
Release : 2003
Category :
ISBN : 9781680225204
History of NASCAR racing.
Author : Christopher Jordan
Publisher : FENN-TUNDRA
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1770494332
An exciting new NASCAR series for the youngest of racing fans. Introduce your children to the early basic concepts through the exciting world of NASCAR in this officially licensed NASCAR series.
Author : Christopher Jordan
Publisher : FENN-TUNDRA
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1770494340
An exciting new NASCAR series for the youngest of racing fans. Introduce your children to the early basic concepts through the exciting world of NASCAR in this officially licensed NASCAR series.
Author : Christopher Jordan
Publisher : FENN-TUNDRA
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1770494324
An exciting new NASCAR series for the youngest of racing fans. Introduce your children to the early basic concepts through the exciting world of NASCAR in this officially licensed NASCAR series.
Author : Greg Fielden
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Stock car racing
ISBN : 9781450899949
This 2015 update of this popular NASCAR Chronicle includes the complete history of big-time American Stock car racing, from its moonshine-running roots to today's multibillion-dollar phenomenon. Includes more than 1600 images, many from NASCAR's own archive.
Author : David Poole
Publisher : NASCAR Wonder Boy Collector's
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781572435513
A biography of the NASCAR driver who is the son of another winning racecar driver, Dale Earnhardt, Sr.
Author : Scott Beekman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1567206611
This is the first work to go beyond the popular myths of stock car racing to fully examine the sport's true history. NASCAR Nation: A History of Stock Car Racing in the United States details the ongoing saga of this quintessentially American pastime. Looking at the drivers, events, and teams, it positions NASCAR racing within larger social, economic, and cultural trends in an attempt to address the sport's phenomenal growth and popularity. This chronological examination of the evolution of stock car racing is the first history to go beyond the widely held myth that it was "invented" by Prohibition-era moonshiners. The book traces stock car racing history from its beginnings, to the formation of The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) in 1948, through today. Of course, readers will meet the sport's many colorful personalities, including the Earnhardts, Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon (who has raked in more than $70 million in career winnings), "Fireball" Roberts, Darrell Waltrip, Daytona pioneer Bill France, and women drivers like Janet Guthrie, Louise Smith, and Jennifer Jo Cobb. While the focus is on NASCAR, the book also examines other prominent stock car racing organizations to round out its comprehensive portrait.
Author : Neal Thompson
Publisher : Crown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0307522261
The true story behind NASCAR’s hardscrabble, moonshine-fueled origins, “fascinating and fast-moving . . . even if you don’t know a master cylinder from a head gasket” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). “[Neal] Thompson exhumes the sport’s Prohibition-era roots in this colorful, meticulously detailed history.”—Time Today’s NASCAR—equal parts Disney, Vegas, and Barnum & Bailey—is a multibillion-dollar conglomeration with 80 million fans, half of them women, that grows bigger and more mainstream by the day. Long before the sport’s rampant commercialism lurks a distant history of dark secrets that have been carefully hidden from view—until now. In the Depression-wracked South, with few options beyond the factory or farm, a Ford V-8 became the ticket to a better life. Bootlegging offered speed, adventure, and wads of cash. Driving with the Devil reveals how the skills needed to outrun federal agents with a load of corn liquor transferred perfectly to the red-dirt racetracks of Dixie. In this dynamic era (the 1930s and ’40s), three men with a passion for Ford V-8s—convicted felon Raymond Parks, foul-mouthed mechanic Red Vogt, and war veteran Red Byron, NASCAR’s first champ—emerged as the first stock car “team.” Theirs is the violent, poignant story of how moonshine and fast cars merged to create a sport for the South to call its own. In the tradition of Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit, this tale captures a bygone era of a beloved sport and the character of the country at a moment in time.