Stock Car Race Fan S Reference Guide

Offers a detailed look at NASCAR racing, including the cars, engines, race team members, race car construction, race day inspections, pit stops, and track records

No sport in the '90s has seen its fan base grow faster than auto racing. Now, these fans have a book to fuel their passion for the sport.Quaker State's Auto Racing USA is the most complete, authoritative, and informative auto-racing guide published to date. Unlike any other racing book, this reference guide offers an in-depth look at the fifteen top North American racing series, from NASCAR to Indycars to drag racing.This user-friendly reference provides everything fans need to know about America's leading auto-racing tracks. The track spreads offer a close-up look at what makes each track unique and include in-depth track diagrams, easy-to-follow area maps, track lore, and travel information.Here are just some of the other features of Quaker State's Auto Racing USA that make it a racing guide like no other: -- More than eighty of racing's top venues are profiled. -- A full four-page spread dedicated to each major track, including a 3-D track diagram. -- Vibrant, four-color printing and action photos throughout. -- Tips on the best places to view a race, and how to avoid traffic jams. -- Popular hotels, restaurants, and other sites where the racing crowd hangs out. -- Plus other popular attractions in the area of each track, including amusement parks, beaches, and museums.Quaker State's Auto Racing USA is a comprehensive guide that is indispensable for long-term and fledgling auto-racing fans alike.

Get the inside track on a sport that's drawing fans in record numbers. Stocked with telephone numbers and Internet addresses, this book takes you from the basics -- how to get tickets, the pluses and minuses of the various tracks, driver profiles and perspectives -- through computer games, NASCAR-related investing, and racing collectibles. Think you'd like to drive a stock car? Check out the data on 70+ programs offered by driving schools nationwide.

For reference librarians and researchers seeking information on sports and fitness, this guide is an important first stop. For collection development specialists, it is an invaluable selection guide. Allen describes and evaluates over 1,000 information sources on the complete spectrum of sports: from basketball, football, and hockey to figure skating, table tennis, and weight training. Focusing on English-language works published between 1990 and the present, the guide thoroughly covers traditional reference sources, such as encyclopedias and bibliographies, along with instructional sources in print formats, online databases, and Web sites. To enable users in search of information on specific sports or fitness activities, chapters are organized thematically, according to broad- type aquatic sports, nautical sports, precision and accuracy, racket sports, ice and snow sports, ball sports, cycling, and so on, with subcategories for such individual sports as soccer, golf, and yoga. Within these categories, works are further organized by type: reference, instructional, and Web sites.

This is the first work to go beyond the popular myths of stock car racing to fully examine the sport's true history. NASCAR 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 of the evolution of stock car racing is the first history to go beyond the widely held myth that it was "invented" by Prohibition-era moonshiners. The book traces stock car racing history from its beginnings, to the formation of The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) in 1948, through today. Of course, readers will meet the sport's many colorful personalities, including the Earnhardts, Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon (who has raked in more than $70 million in career winnings), "Fireball" Roberts, Darrell Waltrip, Daytona pioneer Bill France, and women drivers like Janet Guthrie, Louise Smith, and Jennifer Jo Cobb. While the focus is on NASCAR, the book also examines other prominent stock car racing organizations to round out its comprehensive portrait.

A photographic tour of twenty-five NASCAR tracks on the Winston Cup Circuit, reviewing the physical characteristics, evolution, and history of the raceways, and looking at some of the drivers who have been successful at each one.