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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An insider account and history of the NASCAR world from one of its biggest stars, Kyle Petty. No one knows NASCAR-with all its drama, controversy, and excitement-like Kyle Petty does. Swerve or Die is the smart NASCAR book that's never been written before, a real insider's account of exactly how stock-car racing got to be so controversial and how its Southern-bred worldview is shaking American life yet again. Kyle Petty, a third generations racer,...
3) Race cars
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Language
English
Formats
Description
Start your engines! This beginning title takes young readers around the track as it introduces different kinds of race cars and the parts that make them fast! Easy-to-read text and fun photos offer support while features such as diagrams and a picture glossary reinforce content. Readers just starting out will want to race through this fun title!
Author
Publisher
Page Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It was among the most remarkable and successful rebuilding projects in NASCAR history--turning the most popular driver whose confidence bottomed out amid questionable work habits into an assured and diligent championship contender. In Leading the Way, Steve Letarte takes readers into the closed-door meetings, the heartfelt conversations in the No. 88 hauler and the after-hours bonding sessions that created the faith and trust necessary to make Dale...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a cold February day in 1979, when most of the Northeast was snowed in by a blizzard, NASCAR entered the American consciousness with a dramatic telecast of the Daytona 500. It was the first 500-mile race to be broadcast live on national television and featured the heroes and legends of the sport racing on a hallowed track. With one of the wildest finishes in sports history — a finish that was just the start of the drama — everything changed...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for hundreds of thousands of readers. In Travels with Foxfire, native son Phil Hudgins and Foxfire student Jessica Phillips travel from Georgia to the Carolinas, Tennessee to Kentucky, collecting the stories of the men and women who call the region home. Across more than thirty essays, we discover the secret origins of stock car racing, the story behind...
Publisher
The Groove Productions
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway journeys to the grassroots of stock car racing in Rougemont, North Carolina, the site of the original Trico Motor Speedway built in the early 1960’s. The speedway is one of the South’s unique short tracks where Jeff Gordon, Scott Riggs, Jimmy Johnson, Jeff and Ward Burton, and many other racing greats have competed. The film follows drivers, dedicated family members, and track officials who...
Author
Series
Hardy Boys adventures volume 25
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Frank and Joe are on a history club trip to New York City, and their first stop is the Prohibition Museum where they'll hear about how smugglers building getaway vehicles led to the rise of modern stock car racing. During a tour of damp escape tunnels beneath the museum, Frank slips and breaks a wall panel with his elbow, revealing a hidden compartment containing documents from the 1920s! The documents reveal that The Gilded Top Hat-the speakeasy...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a young mother who loses her husband in Afghanistan and struggles to raise their young daughter in his absence. The film combines elements of faith, country music, and stock car racing while paying tribute to those who serve in the United States Military.
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