Inside Track: A Photo Documentary of NASCAR Stock Car Racing

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High speed performance stock car racing is America's fastest growing spectator sport. With its roots in the moonshine running days of the southeastern United States, stock car racing has become a national passion. The appeal of the sport is basic and universal: equal parts speed and danger, heroics and fear, aggression and competition. It is a split-second world of intense concentration, where cars and drivers, inches apart--and sometimes three abreast--race around a track at ...
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High speed performance stock car racing is America's fastest growing spectator sport. With its roots in the moonshine running days of the southeastern United States, stock car racing has become a national passion. The appeal of the sport is basic and universal: equal parts speed and danger, heroics and fear, aggression and competition. It is a split-second world of intense concentration, where cars and drivers, inches apart--and sometimes three abreast--race around a track at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour.

Inside Track: A Photo Documentary of NASCAR Stock Car Racing captures the highlights of a year on the NASCAR (National Association of Stock Car Automobile Racing) circuit. Photographer George Bennett followed the top rivers and their crews as they raced their way through the Winston Cup series. From rural small tracks like Bristol Raceway in Tennessee to the legendary super speedways like Daytona, Bennett photographed not only the stars of the circuit--Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, Ernie Irvan, Dale Jarrett, Kyle Petty, and Mark Martin--but also the behind-the-scenes participants--the crew, the officials, the fans, the infield groupies. With expert commentary by International Motor Sports Hall of Fame driver Benny Parsons, Inside Track: A Photo Documentary of NASCAR Stock Car Racing captures the whole exciting panorama of big-time stock car racing.

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VOYA - Lola Teubert
In the 1930s and 1940s, farmers in the mountains of North Carolina and South Carolina, driving "liquor cars" that added extra power, started racing their souped-up, revved-up versions of the family car at local fairgrounds, and such were the beginnings of stock car racing and the National Association of Stock Car Racing-NASCAR. Parsons started in the sport as a driver racing on dirt tracks with a car he purchased for fifty dollars. He presents a thorough coverage of this pastime that grows more popular every year, giving readers insight into the famous "leadfoots" whose traveling stock car show in the forties helped popularize the race in the Southwest and Midwest; the development of the super speedways-including the first, Daytona, which was built in 1959; some of the top drivers of yesterday and today; and the involvement of corporate sponsors, among other topics. As the title suggests, Parsons provides a close look at the race, explaining, for example, how the pit crew's fate can be as competitive as the driver's, with the crew chief videotaping every stop, zooming in on the action, looking for ways to hasten the changing of tires or the filling of the gas tank. The book's photos are, unfortunately, black-and-white, and the print accompanying the photographs is small. There is no index, which is a shame since the book contains many pertinent facts about stock car racing. However, this coffee table book will be popular with racing fans, YAs with car fever, and those who live in areas where racing is a big event. VOYA Codes: 3Q 4P M J S (Readable without serious defects, Broad general YA appeal, Middle School-defined as grades 6 to 8, Junior High-defined as grades 7 to 9 and Senior High-defined as grades 10 to 12).
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781885183590
  • Publisher: Artisan
  • Publication date: 11/1/1996
  • Pages: 144
  • Product dimensions: 9.32 (w) x 12.32 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Benny Parsons, a native North Carolinian, started racing in the Detroit area in 1963. Winner of the Winston Cup Championship and the Daytona 500, Parsons recorded a total of 21 NASCAR victories before retiring from racing in 1988. Currently he is a race analyst for ESPN/ABC, host of a NASCAR video magazine, host of a Monday night racing update on NBC-6 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and host of FastTalk with Benny Parsons, a weekly radio show on Performance Racing Network.

George Bennett's photographs have appeared in Sports Illustrated, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Time, and many other publications. His books include Mannequins, Fighters (with text by Pete Hamill), and Inside Track: A Photo Documentary of NASCAR Stock Car Racing (with text by Benny Parsons). He lives in New York City.

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Table of Contents

Made in America

A Weekend at the Races

Short Tracks

Intermediate Speedways

Super Speedways

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