Nascar

Nascar: Real Men Work in the Pits

In Real Men Work in the Pits, Jeff Hammond recalls the moments of his life in racing. Starting out working for the legendary Junior Johnson in the mid-70s and quickly becoming one of the best jackmen in the business; serving on all three of driver Cale Yarborough's championship seasons; and then taking over as crew chief during the glory days of legendary driver Darrell Waltrip.

Jeff Hammond and Waltrip teamed up

Jeff Hammond and Waltrip teamed up to become one of the most successful crew chief/driver teams in history and their story has never fully been told until this book. Jeff Hammond's story is really the story of NASCAR itself, from its bootlegging beginnings to the multi-million dollar world of network television. Hammond has seen it all and isn't afraid to speak his mind when it comes to the key issues facing the sport.
Real Men Work in the Pits: A Life in Nascar Racing by Jeff Hammond
ISBN: 1594861617

Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death!

NASCAR racing, once considered no more than a regional circuit of moonshiners pounding around low-country dirt tracks in a cloud of red dust and cliché, has somehow become the fastest-growing spectator sport in America - and the buxom, bumpkin darling of Madison Avenue. With 75 million fans and its popularity soaring in every corner of the country, NASCAR is a 200-mile-an-hour traveling tent-and-revival show, a platinum-plated, multibillion-dollar V-8 hero machine - a sports entertainment empire built at the very crossroads of pop culture, corporate commerce, and American mythology.

Entire season on the NASCAR circuit

Smart, funny, and profane, Sunday Money is the kaleidoscopic account of an entire season on the NASCAR circuit. Driving 48,000 miles in a tiny motorhome, writer Jeff MacGregor and his wife, an award-winning photographer, covered 36 races at 23 tracks in 18 states, from Daytona to Darlington, New Hampshire to California, from the Wal-Mart to the Waldorf, profiling the lives of superstar drivers like Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Tony Stewart, their crews, and their fans, across the grinding reach of a 40-week season.

Behind-the-scenes chronicle

But this is not just a behind-the-scenes chronicle of America's loudest pastime. It is the story of a hundred stories; of red states and blue, of splendid Rebel lizards and golden Yankee hotshoes, of mystic true believers and their holy roll of honored ghosts.

Snapshot of American culture

In the tradition of On the Road, Travels with Charley, and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Sunday Money is a snapshot of American culture - of race, religion, class, sex, money, politics, and fame - taken from the window of a moving car, a brilliantly observed, keenly rendered, and darkly comic portrait of America.

Hot Lap Around America With NASCAR

Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death!: A Hot Lap Around America With NASCAR by Jeff MacGregor
ISBN: 0060094710

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