Download or read book Encyclopedia of Stock Car Racing 2 volumes written by Lew Freedman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Stock Car Racing written by Frank Moriarty and published by Friedman/Fairfax Pub. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the history of stock car racing, major personalities, places, and machines of the sport, and stock car jargon
Download or read book The Stock Car Racing Encyclopedia written by Peter Golenbock and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first organized races in the 1940s to the super speedway action of today, this comprehensive book features complete statistics for every driver who's ever competed in a race, results of every race from 1949 through the 1995-96 season, a comprehensive listing of record holders and award winners, and more. 32 photos.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Stock Car Racing written by Lew Freedman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Auto Racing Greats written by Robert Arthur Cutter and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 550 biographies of drivers, designers, mechanics, and engineers.
Download or read book NASCAR Encyclopedia written by Peter Golenbock and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference guide to the drivers, owners, races, and cars of NASCAR.
Download or read book Stock Car Trivia Encyclopedia written by Keith Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up-to-date amazing, embarrassing, and informative facts from the world's most exciting sport.
Download or read book Stock Car Model Kit written by Bill Coulter and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting and building stock car models is a popular way for fans to follow their racing car heroes such as Richard Petty and Mark Martin. This guide lists current market values, pictures over 300 different models, and provides insights and tips for modellers and collectors.
Download or read book The Godfather of New England Stock Car Racing written by Adrienne J Venditti and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-05-18 with total page 999 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to the man whose life inspired me to tell his story. His name is D. Anthony Venditti, widely known as the Godfather of Stock Car Racing in New England. It is also dedicated to my mother, with her eternal love and devoted support of her beloved Anthony, her family, and racing. She and the Godfather enabled and empowered our family to persevere in the sport. This is to all those with unending convictions in the Godfather and to the Seekonk Fraternity of racing. This book is a pictorial and a closer look at the life of the Godfather. He was the youngest promoter in motor sports in the United States in the 1940s. And as a twenty-five-year-old, he planned, engineered, and built his speedway. He was young and full of ambition. It was his dream, an American dream, to build, open, and operate his speedway at the end of World War II, in 1946. Yet when in his advanced years, he then became known as the oldest living promoter in stock car racing. He consecutively ran his race plant each year, faithfully opening his facility, without fail. He never missed a season under his reign—an unheard-of feat of forty-five years as a stock car racing promoter. Seekonk Speedway continues to run without any ambiguity by the same family. The speedway is proudly still in business all these seventy-three consecutive years of racing in the books. Anthony is celebrated and acclaimed for his pioneering in the American sport of auto racing, awarded RPM’s “1978 Promoter of the Year.” It was with great adoration of the sports community that he is acknowledged for his forethought and far-reaching ideas of innovation pertaining to mechanical engineering, safety features in facility construction, and administrative procedures. Mr. Venditti is attributed to numerous awards for his devotion for the betterment of the sport of auto racing.
Download or read book The Complete Statistical History of Stock Car Racing written by Richard Sowers and published by David Bull Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From race records to pole positions, development on the track and off the track, this book uncovers the most complete statistical and historical survey of NASCAR's first 51 years.
Download or read book Legends of Stock Car Racing written by John Craft and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles of two dozen legendary drivers, car builders, and track owners who have made NASCAR stock car racing one of America's most popular sports.
Download or read book NASCAR Nation written by Scott Beekman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Illustrated History of Stock Car Racing written by Don Hunter and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 1998 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history of stock car racing from its beginning when NASCAR was formed in the 1940s through the 1998 Daytona 500
Download or read book Racing written by Clive Gifford and published by . This book was released on 2006-10-18 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines various aspects of motor racing, including drivers, circuits, cars, different categories of motor sports, and pit stop techniques.
Download or read book Fifty Years of Stock Car Racing written by Ken Breslauer and published by David Bull Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five decades of NASCAR racing roar to life in this beautifully illustrated book of stock car racing memorabilia. It is a visual review of the first fifty years, told through historic photos of great races and racers, with the memorabilia they inspired'
Download or read book The World s Number One Flat Out All Time Great Stock Car Racing Book written by Jerry Bledsoe and published by Scruffy City Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Labor Day weekend of 1972, journalist Jerry Bledsoe hooked up with the stock car racing circuit to begin research for his first book. The result of his efforts, first published in 1975, has been called the classic work on stock car racing. Bledsoe captures the beginnings of the modern NASCAR era, a time when legends like Richard Petty, David Pearson, Bobby Allison, and the Wood brothers ruled. It was also a time when independent drivers like Wendell Scott (NASCAR’s first African American driver) and Larry Smith could build a car in their garages during the week and race on Sunday alongside King Richard. With levels of access impossible to achieve today, Bledsoe is not only in the pits and garages with the drivers, but also is alongside their family driving to the next race in a van piled high with ice chests filled with sandwiches and fried chicken. He digs into the sport’s rough and rowdy history and shines a light into its nooks and crannies, uncovering the forgotten role that women drivers played in creating this most macho of motorsports. And then there are the fans. There’s Red Robinson, the self-proclaimed “World’s Number One Stock Car Racing Fan," who collects racing beauty queens the way some people collects stamps. And the fans camped out in the infield at Darlington, the biggest, wildest, whoopingest, holleringest, drinkingest, gamblingest, carousingest, knock-down, fall-out blowout held in the South. More than a book about racing, this is a close-up look at a cultural phenomenon that illuminates America and the South. In 1965, Tom Wolfe called racer Junior Johnson “the last American hero.” “The World’s Number One, All-Time Great, Stock Car Racing Book” shows that a decade later there were still plenty of heroes circling the track with no signs of them disappearing anytime soon.
Download or read book The Complete Encyclopedia of Formula One written by Bruce Jones and published by Carlton Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated story of Formula one, from the first motor race in France back in 1894 to today's super-powerful vehicles driven by world superstars such as Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton, men who exchange paint with one another at incredible speeds on circuits all round the world.
