Stock-Car Racing Lives

by Sowers, Richard; Kinrade, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9781893618145
• ISBN10: 1893618145
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: David Bull Pub

Summary

When 43 cars thunder toward the start/finish line at the outset of a NASCAR Winston Cup race, they become the focus of some 190,000 people in the grandstands, 10 million TV viewers, and a couple of million radio listeners. While the 43 men driving those machines are in the spotlight, as many as 14,000 people have worked behind the scenes to make that race a reality. Their stories are what make Stock-Car Racing Lives.

Author Richard Sowers presents intimate first-person accounts from the people who devote their lives to NASCAR racing. Some are relative newcomers, others grizzled veterans. Stock-Car Racing Lives takes you behind the scenes with a vast range of characters and personalities, from superstars such as Richard Petty and Bobby Labonte to a man who polishes the wheels of race-car transporters at each race and lives in his van. For the first time, read their most revealing stories, anecdotes, criticisms, and secrets as they discuss what life is like being a part of America's fastest-growing sport.

Table of Contents

Preface	13	(2)
Jay Adamczyk	15	(4)
Sam Bass	19	(6)
Tim Bertoni/Dan Hughes	25	(5)
Brett Bodine	30	(6)
David Carmichael	36	(3)
Bill Connell	39	(4)
Ray Cooper	43	(3)
Renee Cope	46	(5)
Jimmy Cox	51	(3)
Bill Elliott	54	(5)
Benny Ertel	59	(5)
Myra Faulkenbury	64	(5)
Eli Gold	69	(4)
Frances Goss	73	(4)
Max Helton	77	(3)
Jane Hogan	80	(5)
Ned Jarrett	85	(3)
Buckshot Jones	88	(6)
Hank Jones	94	(5)
Dean Kessel	99	(3)
Bobby Labonte	102	(6)
Juliet Macur	108	(5)
Larry McReynolds	113	(5)
Morris Metcalfe	118	(5)
Dennis Mills	123	(2)
Bob Myers	125	(5)
Richard Petty	130	(6)
Felix Sabates	136	(7)
Bob Tracey	143	(6)
Fred Wagenhals	149	(4)
T. Taylor Warren	153	(6)
Humpy Wheeler	159	(5)
Wood Family	164	(7)
John Youk	171	(4)
Acknowledgments	175