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Chicken Soup for the Soul: NASCAR
Chicken Soup for the Soul 2011; US$ 14.95Fans will be inspired, surprised, and amused by these inside stories from the race track and pit. Drivers, their families, pit crews, and fans share their behind-the-scene stories to give readers a front row view of the sport. Get behind the driver?s seat with these personal tales and anecdotes from inside the race track. Famous drivers and their... more...
The Crew Chief's Son
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 35.00In this memoir, Michael Clements recounts growing up in the early days of stock car racing. From 1957 through 1965, his father, Louie, travelled the NASCAR circuit, bringing his wife and five children along to every race. Owner and crew chief for champion driver Rex White, Louie introduced many mechanical innovations still used in NASCAR today, and... more...
Basic Motorsport Engineering
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 36.95Motorsport is not just about the spectacle of some of the world's most popular and famous sporting events - it also plays a crucial role in developing new techniques and technologies. Each unit in the IMI and EAL level 2 courses are covered in full, and the chapters can be easily matched to the BTEC First course structure. The book covers introductory... more...
They Started in MGs
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 35.00An affordable, lightweight sports car suitable for racing, the MG TC launched the sports car scene in postwar America. A wave of drivers first competed on the track in these and the later TD, TF and MGA models during the 1950s, many of them eventually moving up to Porsches, Alfa Romeos, Jaguars and Ferraris. Eighty such drivers, from the famous (e.g.,... more...
Romancing the Roads
Taylor Trade Publishing 2011; US$ 9.99This compendium of observations, discoveries, reviews, humor, experiences, and more is not only for the road traveler, but the armchair traveler as well. It reads as a diary of discoveries along America's highways and byways, from Maine to Florida and west to the Mississippi. Davis has visited almost all places mentioned, from Bud's Discount Center... more...
The Great American Staycation
F+W Media 2010; US$ 9.95Layoffs are rampant, gas prices are volatile, airlines are cutting flights, and Americans are feeling the economic pinch of a recession. As much as we hate it in this country of big dreams, big cars and Big Macs, we have to find a way to cut back. For many Americans, that means turning the Great American Vacation into a "staycation," which is the big... more...
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
F+W Media 2011; US$ 30.00"In Indianapolis?racing is religion. The Speedway is our temple. That's the best way I can explain my worship for Indianapolis." - Mario Andretti, racing legend Officially licensed in cooperation with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway: 100 Years of Racing tells the compelling story of the most renowned racing venue in... more...
NASCAR Nation
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 45.00NASCAR 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... more...
The Motor Racing Quiz Book
Andrews UK 2011; US$ 11.49So you're a fan of motor racing, but just how wide is your knowledge and how far back does it go? You'll be tested to the limit with this Motor Racing Quiz Book and will soon be chugging into the pits to have your brain recharged when you reach the latter section designed specifically for the experts among you. However, you can console yourself... more...
Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 95.00Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation critically interrogates stockcar racing's ascendance into the upper-echelon of the North American sporting popular. While most contributions to the public discourse gloss over NASCAR's exclusively white racial identity politics, its underlying patriarchal gender politics, its overtly conservative political commitment,... more...









