Inside Track: A Photo Documentary of NASCAR Stock Car Racing [Hardcover]

Benny Parsons (Author), George Bennett (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 11, 1996

High speed performance 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. Since 1990, attendance at NASCAR (National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing) events has tripled. Radio and television coverage has also increased dramatically, with CBS Sports using NASCAR as one of its four foundations (with college basketball, college football, and golf). Major corporations are lining up to sponsor NASCAR racing teams. The Inside Track to NASCAR is a photographic documentary of the highlights of a year on the NASCAR circuit. Photographer George Bennett followed the top drivers and their crews as they raced their way through the Winston Cup Series. From rural tracks like Bristol Raceway in Tennessee to legendary super speedways like Daytona, Bennett photographed not only the stars of the circuit--Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, Ernie Irvan, and Dale Jarret--but also the behind-the-scenes participants--the crews, the officials, the fans, the infield groupies. With expert commentary by international Motor Sports Hall of Fame driver Benny Parsons, The Inside Track to NASCAR captures the whole exciting panorama of big-time stock car racing.

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This photo documentary of Nascar stock car racing provides a photo display coupled with fine race and biographical detail on those who have participated in NASCAR driving. Avid fans will appreciate the behind-the-scenes details exposed and explored here, while newcomers receive all the details on the race's history, events, and participants. -- Midwest Book Review

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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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Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Artisan; 1St Edition edition (January 11, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885183593
• ISBN-13: 978-1885183590
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,993,222 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars SUNDAY HOUSEWIFE, November 10, 2000

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This review is from: Inside Track: A Photo Documentary of NASCAR Stock Car Racing (Hardcover)

For those like me that spend every sunday beside your man watching the race this is the book that should be on the coffee table. I found so much information and facts in this book. I didn't have to ask so many questions as to why they do this or why they do that. This is a very fact filled, informative book on many legends of Nascar. A really great buy that will have all Nascar fans wanting more.