(Part 2) Top products from r/NASCAR

I'm a huge NASCAR fan.

If you don't know who your recipient's favorite driver is, I would say anything you can get that illustrates the history of the sport...the roots, the early days, the modern era, the tracks and drivers past and present, old stories, etc, would be greatly appreciated.

I've seen this book in stores and have been meaning to pick it up:

http://www.amazon.com/He-Crashed-Him-Back-Earnhardt/dp/0316034029/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289921134&sr=1-2

It's a little more than $10, but it seems like an interesting read.

I'm sure whatever you decide on though your recipient will love - NASCAR fans are nice like that.

Good luck!

Nothing at the moment, but I've been thinking of ordering this.

I'd love to know more about car setups, and, it could possibly help with iRacing too, so, it'd be neat to test some of the stuff out.

Larry McReynolds: The Big Picture: My Life From Pit Road to the Broadcast Booth

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Real Men Work in the Pits: A Life in NASCAR Racing

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But I would agree that Jr's book is among the best that's been published lately. It's a really excellent book.

• Real NASCAR By Daniel S. Pierce - My go-to NASCAR history book; he covers a lot of the sport's business dealings and gets further into some more recent eras (late 80's/early 90s) than some other "History of NASCAR" books.
  
  
• Driving With the Devil by Neil Thompson - The top of my hypothetical NASCAR 101 reading list. If you want the literal dirt on the sport's formation and NASCAR's organization, this book covers it. Thompson takes care to feature a lot of the big stock car racing players outside of the France family, which is incredibly eye-opening.
  
  
• He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back by Mark Bechtel - With the best title out of any NASCAR book, this one just gets deep into the 1979 season, which only got crazier after the groundbreaking national broadcast of the '79 500.
  
  
• NASCAR Generations by Robert Edelstein - Has a lot of firsthand accounts on almost all the famous NASCAR families.

Another inspiration for Days of Thunder was "Stand On It: A Novel By Stroker Ace" A fake autobiography following the exploits of Stroker Ace, an Indy Driver who switches over to Nascar. The 1983 film Stroker Ace with Burt Reynolds has less in common with the book than Days of Thunder does. Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham actually used multiple elements of the books in there films. Such as the airplane landing in the middle of the street to pick up beer in Cannonball Run comes from this book. The book is out of print, and its not cheap on Amazon but its a really fun read. http://www.amazon.com/Stand-It-Novel-Stroker-Ace/dp/0894040820

Real NASCAR by Daniel Pierce.
As a history major I like this book because it is one of the few books that deals with the history of NASCAR that is actually written by a professional historian. Pierce mainly analyses the founding of NASCAR as an organization and its following growth.

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Years ago, I found this book in my high school library. I didn't realize until now that Ed Hinton wrote it. It was a really good book.

I have this great book, NASCAR Chronicle. Last time I was at the book store, I saw the new version with updates up to ~2017. It has tons of pictures with detailed captions, and the right features- namely, they have a one-page feature on Jocko Flocko, which is hilarious to me. Anyways, this is how I learned about the history of the sport.

Best Damn Garage in Town is a great book.

I own two of the Family Albums as well as The Evolution Of NASCAR.

Let me recommend a [book] (https://www.amazon.com/NASCARs-Greatest-Race-1992-Hooters/dp/1613252854/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1518659599&sr=8-3&keywords=America%27s+Greatest+Race). I am not a salesman, I just love this book.

Books: The Weekend Starts on Wednesday http://www.amazon.com/Weekend-Starts-Wednesday-Stories-Remarkable/dp/0760338310/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309999347&sr=8-1. Another is Sunday Money a year long look at a full season http://www.amazon.com/Sunday-Money-Madness-Around-America/dp/B000GPIL5U/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1309999407&sr=1-1

Everything else I read was spot on..

• [Charlotte Motor Speedway: From Granite to Gold] (http://www.amazon.com/Charlotte-Motor-Speedway-History-Granite-ebook/dp/B00D1CV0J4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419175776&sr=1-1&keywords=charlotte+motor+speedway) (Book)
  
• [Fast Women: The Ladies of Auto Racing] (http://www.amazon.com/FAST-WOMEN-Ladies-Auto-Racing/dp/B0001US47A) (DVD)
  
• [Rockingham Speedway] (http://www.amazon.com/Rockingham-Speedway-NASCAR-Arcadia-Publishing/dp/0738599492/ref=tmm_pap_title_0) (Book)
  
• [The Official NASCAR Trivia Book: With 1001 Facts and Questions to Your Racing Knowledge] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Official-NASCAR-Trivia-Book/dp/0771051123/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1419175776&sr=1-2) (Book)
  
• [NASCAR Then and Now] (http://www.amazon.com/NASCAR-Then-Now-Ben-White/dp/0760338140/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1419175776&sr=1-7) (Book)

Introduction to Fluid Mechanics: Read it

Mark Martin writes NASCAR for Dummies books (LINK)

You should ask for this instead.

NASCAR version of the bible?

Soooooooo a Front Row Motorsports driver losing his entire ride because he was racing for the win and his move happened to fuck over your Penske driver as well as himself? I've got a book for you to read.

The Art of Racing in the Rain is one hell of a book if you want more racing-based wisdom.