Author : Janey Levy
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 2006-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780531168080
A history of stock car racing looks at the cars, the drivers, and the races, from the beginning of the popular sport to the present day.
Author : Scott Beekman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 19,43 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 : Don Hunter
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 15,78 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780760304167
Presents the history of stock car racing from its beginning when NASCAR was formed in the 1940s through the 1998 Daytona 500
Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
This two-volume encyclopedia is the Daytona 500 of stock car racing books—an essential "Bible" that provides an all-encompassing history of the sport as well as an up-to-date examination of modern-day stock car racing. How did stock car racing become firmly entrenched in American pop culture, especially in light of the lack of interest in motorsports overall as a spectator activity in the United States? And what has been the secret to NASCAR's financial success and growth over the last six decades? Encyclopedia of Stock Car Racing highlights approximately 250 subjects that have defined the sport since stock car racing was first organized. Organized in A-Z order, it covers all of the greatest drivers, such as Richard Petty, Jimmie Johnson, Junior Johnson, and David Pearson; the special races such as the Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400; and the famed tracks across the country, from Bristol Motor Speedway to Darlington Raceway to Talladega Superspeedway. This unprecedented resource collects information about every element of NASCAR history in one place: the early personalities who shaped the sport and set things in motion, the past greats who have now retired, and today's rising stars who continue to make stock car racing one of the most popular sports in the United States.
Author : Peter Golenbock
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780025446151
With five bestsellers to his name, Peter Golenbock has earned a reputation as one of America's best and most successful sports authors. In American Zoom he presents an oral history of stock car racing, as told by great drivers, mechanics, promoters, and others. "A lively, literate, and loving look at the magic of stock car racing".--The Chicago Tribune
Author : Michael Dregni
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781560652069
Looks at the exciting world of NASCAR stock car racing.
Author : Don Hunter
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9785559295268
From the sand dunes of Daytona to today's ultra-modern superspeedways, this history of NASCAR covers America's favorite motorsport from its roots to its current status as a muti-billion-dollar industry. 250 photos, 200 in color.
Author : Betty Boles Ellison
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1476616221
The first organized, sanctioned American stock car race took place in 1908 on a road course around Briarcliff, New York--staged by one of America's early speed mavens, William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. A veteran of the early Ormond-Daytona Beach speed trials, Vanderbilt brought the Grand Prize races to Savannah, Georgia, the same year. What began as a rich man's sport eventually became the working man's sport, finding a home in the South with the infusion of moonshiners and their souped-up cars. Based in large part on statements of drivers, car owners and others garnered from archived newspaper articles, this history details the development of stock car racing into a megasport, chronicling each season through 1974. It examines the National Association for Stock Car Automobile Racing's 1948 incorporation documents and how they differ from the agreements adopted at NASCAR's organization meeting two months earlier. The meeting's participants soon realized that their sport was actually owned by William H.G. "Bill" France, and its consequential growth turned his family into billionaires. The book traces the transition from dirt to asphalt to superspeedways, the painfully slow advance of safety measures and the shadowy economics of the sport.
Author : Joe Menzer
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 2002-06-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780743226257
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 : Wil Mara
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2000-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736888844
Introduces the sport of stock car racing including its history, various special features of the cars, and qualifications of drivers and crews.
