(Part 3) Top products from r/NASCAR

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.

"Race With Destiny" by the late, great David Poole is excellent. Tells the story of Alan Kulwicki's championship, along with everything else that happened that year...


http://www.amazon.com/Race-Destiny-David-Poole/dp/0970917031

Dang, used to live in Tucson and was unaware of the proximity. Lot of great cars in there. The Porsche LMP2 is particularly special, as it outshone and beat the diesel Audi R10 LMP1 juggernaut at Sebring that year, and was competitive against the faster class all throughout the schedule. Legendary times in the ALMS.

Some reading suggestions:

The Unfair Advantage - Mark Donohue's pseudo-autobiography cataloguing his and Roger Penske's continual development of the cars they raced in the 1960s and 1970s, a true golden era for gains in automotive racing technology and performance.

Beast - the story of Penske's secret Ilmor-Mercedes engine project that once again gained the unfair advantage and lead to victory at Indy in 1994.

• 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

https://www.amazon.com/Falling-Stars-Gods-Book-Three/dp/1520529252/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500749703&sr=8-1&keywords=kyle+larson+book

Seems like he went for a genre change haha

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.

Link

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.

Going to Arizona next week? Join me in black flagging Bubba! I've already ordered mine!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X449P35

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.

As most people have already mentioned, these are replicas from the NASCAR Vault Book.

There are also similar pieces of replica memorabilia in the NASCAR Family Album

I own the Family Album book btw.

I picked up NASCAR: A Fast History at a yard sale. I used to read it out loud to my kid when he was an infant.

• [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.

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.