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Jeff Gordon

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This book depicited Jeff as how he is. A human being like everyone elso who just happens to have an amazing talent for race car driving. It has great quotes from Jeff, his father, and other race car drivers. This is the story of his life, and how he became who he is: a champion inside and out. This is a MUST for all Jeff Gordon fans.

Quotes from Jeff's mother, step-father, friends and relatives help you to understand this man that has become a superstar in the world of Winston Cup Racing. There are stories about his early years of racing and the track he followed that lead him to Winston Cup Racing. It was interesting to learn that in his early years of racing, just as today, people couldn't believe that Jeff was as talented as his achievements indicated. They gave credit to the car, the team, etc. He may seem like an overnight superstar until you read where Jeff started, and the road he traveled to become a 3 time Winston Cup Champion.

I enjoyed the stories about Brooke and Jeff, how they met, a glimpse of the shy Jeff as he started his relationship with Brooke and Brooke's influence on Jeff's spiritual growth.

Gary Thomas covers the significant Winston Cup Races well. He describes the key points of each race in a way that even a racing novice could understand. The book includes a glossary of racing terminolody for the novice.

Included are interesting facts about other race car drivers and their interactions with Jeff, such as Dale Earnhardt teaching Jeff how to draft at Daytona.

Overall, this book was a fun and interesting read and you don't have to be a race fan to enjoy it.

I only wish that there would have been more pictures.

For anyone who doesn't believe that Jeff Gordon earned his fantastic achievements, this is the book to read. It details from Jeff having incredible eye hand coordination as a toddler, to the end of 1998 with his 3rd Winston Cup Championship. The book gives enough information about individual races without overdoing it,and enough information about his family and himself to truly realize that he will eventually be known as the best race car driver of all time. I would have appreciated some more photographs of his career.

JEFF GORDON LIKE NEVER BEFORE

Being from Vallejo, CA and knowing Jeff and his family since Jeff was one year old, I probably have more insight to the "real story" of Jeff Gordon than most. This book is very inaccurate at best. I think the author tried to capture the story but most of the book was pieced together from previous books and articles. Jeff himself was never interviewed for the book. Other than the single interview with Jeff's parents, everything else was written on hearsay and prior publications. It was also apparent that Mr. Thomas knows little about NASCAR racing. He wrote the book with good intentions and presented Jeff in a good way but some of the his statements were laughable. One that comes to mind is him writing that Ray Evernham used computer telemetry during a race so he would know how to adjust the car during pit stops. Hello? Everyone that knows anything about NASCAR racing knows that this is not allowed. All this will do is fuel the Gordon haters in claiming he cheated to get to where he is today. Again, this book was not authorized by Jeff or his parents and after reading it I know why. It was obvious this book was quickly written and published because there were occasional typos and misspellings throughout the book. It is unfortunate that individuals can profit from writing about peoples lives of which they know little about.

This book is just another in a long series of Jeff Gordon propaganda. This book is regurgitation of mass media hype concerning one of NASCAR most manufactured "stars." There is nothing new in this book that we haven't rolled our eyes over in previous books. The author is clearly looking to cash-in, riding the coat tails of Jeff Gordon.

If you've read previous autobiographies of Jeff Gordon, don't bother with this one. There's not much new in this book you can't find on any NASCAR Internet message board or newsgroup, and you don't have to pay for it.