Charlotte, North Carolina, is the virtual epicenter of NASCAR, with several of today's top teams setting up shop in the immediate vicinity. Charlotte Motor Speedway, however, has a rich NASCAR heritage that dates back four decades. This photographic retrospective follows the history of NASCAR at the speedway, as the sport grows from a regional attraction to a national obsession, and the cars evolve from factory-stock automobiles to hand-built racers. Readers will witness how the track has drastically changed over the years to accommodate epic battles among past legends like Fireball Roberts, Junior Johnson, Fred Lorenzen, Richard Petty, and Cale Yarborough, and such current favorites as Dale Earnhardt, Mark Martin, and Jeff Gordon, to name just a few.
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Great historical photos of a great sport,
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The book was a good book, I'm glad I bought it. The writing was repetitive, especially of the later years. The photos were superb, bringing memories of the early years of NASCAR. There were many pictures of the superstars of the sport, but there were also many pictures of the guys who get very little ink like Tom Pistone and Jim Vandiver.
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Greg Fielden continues his outstanding work as one of the premier historians of Nascar Stock Car Racing. As with his earlier efforts; "Forty Years of Stock Car Racing - Volumes 1-5" and "Real Racers" ... Fielden's writing makes you feel as if you experienced some of the events he describes. I have visited many race tracks over the years, but never Charlotte ... 15 minutes of reading made me go check the race schedule for the upcoming season so I can witness some of the adventure that fills this book. If you're a Nascar fan, owning this book is a must ... if you are just generally a race fan (be it Champ Car, IRL, Stock Car or F1 as I am) you can't go wrong owning a copy.
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The National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) was incorporated in February of 1948 in Daytona Beach, Florida, following a series of meetings among the South's most influential motorsports figures. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Charlotte Motor Speedway, Winston Cup, Grand National, Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty, Bobby Allison, David Pearson, Mark Martin, Cale Yarborough, Darrell Waltrip, Bill Elliott, Late Model Sportsman, Bruton Smith, Buddy Baker, Harry Gant, Mello Yello, Richard Howard, Curtis Turner, Neil Bonnett, Taylor Warren, Jeff Gordon, Terry Labonte, Dale Jarrett, Rusty Wallace, Bobby Labonte New!
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The National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) was incorporated in February of 1948 in Daytona Beach, Florida, following a series of meetings among the South's most influential motorsports figures. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Charlotte Motor Speedway, Winston Cup, Grand National, Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty, Bobby Allison, David Pearson, Mark Martin, Cale Yarborough, Darrell Waltrip, Bill Elliott, Late Model Sportsman, Bruton Smith, Buddy Baker, Harry Gant, Mello Yello, Richard Howard, Curtis Turner, Neil Bonnett, Taylor Warren, Jeff Gordon, Terry Labonte, Dale Jarrett, Rusty Wallace, Bobby Labonte New!
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- Victory Lane: The John Earnhardt Story by Crystal Earnhardt on 15 pages
- Mark Martin (Rcl) (Pbk) (Z) (Race Car Legends) by Tara Baukus Mello on 9 pages
- Rusty Wallace (Race Car Legends) by Tara Baukus Mello on page 122, page 123, and page 133
- Dale Earnhardt by Jonathan Ingram on page 72, and page 75
- Jeff Burton (Race Car Legends) by June Ford on page 145, and Back Matter
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- The Wildest Ride: A History of NASCAR (or, How a Bunch of Good Ol' Boys Built a Billion-Dollar Industry out of Wrecking Cars) by Joe Menzer in Back Matter
- The Wildest Ride: A History of NASCAR (or How a Bunch of Good Ol' Boys Built a Billion-Dollar Industry out of Wrecking Cars) by Joe Menzer in Back Matter
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