All Around the Track

All Around the Track
Author: Anne B. Jones
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2015-03-18
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0786482435
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From authors Anne Jones and former NASCAR champion Rex White, here are oral histories of more than 50 individuals from stock car and drag racing's not-so-distant past and present. Rich with original interviews and previously unpublished material, it includes drivers such as David Pearson, Junior Johnson, Bobby Allison, Bob Glidden and Hubert Platt; mechanics and builders; track crew; sportswriters; and owners such as Joe and J.D. Gibbs. Features many photographs and a foreword by Atlanta Motor Speedway President Ed Clark.

The Allisons

The Allisons
Author: Ann Parr
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2015-06-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1438142641
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Profiles NASCAR legends Bobby, Clifford, Davey, and Donnie Allison, discussing each family member's racing successes, career accomplishments, contributions to racing, and other related topics.

Jimmie Johnson

Jimmie Johnson
Author: Bill Fleischman
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2015-06-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1438142587
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Presents a brief biography of NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson, providing information on his youth, his early racing career, and his success winning races in NASCAR.

Kevin Harvick

Kevin Harvick
Author: Greg Roza
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2009-01-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1435857070
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Receiving a go-kart as a kindergarten graduation present, Kevin Harvick got behind the wheel early and has been racing ever since. By the age of 20, he became a NASCAR Rookie of the Year in the Featherlite Southwest series. Soon he was racing in all three of NASCAR’s most prestigious nationwide series. In two of these series he would win Rookie of the Year honors. Only one year after being named the NASCAR Busch series Rookie of the Year, he would win the Busch series championship in 2001. He’d win it again in 2006. With 11 wins, 5 poles, 51 Top 5 finishes, 105 Top 10 finishes, and almost $40 million in earnings during his still young NASCAR career, Harvick has certainly delivered on the early promise he showed as a 5-year-old in his go-kart. There’s no telling how much farther and faster this speed demon will go!

Full Throttle

Full Throttle
Author: Robert Edelstein
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2006-03-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1590205626
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“A superbly researched and engagingly written biography” of NASCAR legend Curtis Turner, known as the Babe Ruth of stock car racing (Sports Illustrated). Curtis Turner’s life embodied everything that makes NASCAR the biggest spectator sport in American history; the adrenaline rush of the races, the potential for danger at every turn, and the charismatic, outrageous personality of a winner. Turner created drama at the racetrack and in his personal life, living the American Dream several times over before he died a violent and mysterious death at the age of forty-six. In gripping prose, and with access to the files of Turner’s widow, sports writer and author of NASCAR Generations Robert Edelstein offers the first complete chronicle of Turner’s life. From his days as a teenage moonshine runner in Virginia, through millions earned in fearless finance deals, to his incredible comeback after four years of being banned from the NASCAR circuit, Full Throttle lets you ride shotgun with the legend.

Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
Author: Bill Fleischman
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2015-05-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1438142536
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An introduction to the life and career of the NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

Sports, Exercise, and Fitness

Sports, Exercise, and Fitness
Author: Mary Beth Allen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2005-03-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313068577
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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.