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Growing Up NASCAR

The Humpy Wheeler Story

Hardcover

Published: 15th March 2010
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In 1949, when Humpy Wheeler was 11, he attended the very first NASCAR race. For the next ten years, he spent as much time in the pits as he could, and came to know many of the sport's pioneers. Eventually, Wheeler began promoting races at Carolina tracks such as Concord Speedway, Robinwood Speedway, and Starlight Speedway. Racing was so rough back then he kept a gun by his side when he paid the purse, and often used his fists to keep order. By the time Wheeler retired in 2008, he had helped NASCAR become the six-billion-dollar-a-year industry it is today. Filled with photographs from Wheeler's personal archives, "Growing up NASCAR "presents the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at NASCAR from the consumate insider.

"Truly a fun, entertaining book, it also gives some good insights into the man and the personality behind what we've all seen in races." - SpeedWeekly.net

We Watched the Race Cars Go Byp. 1
The Scotch-Irish and the Segregated Southp. 15
Learning the Ropesp. 32
Moonshine and Racingp. 45
The Robinwood Speedwayp. 52
Slickp. 69
Witness to Disasterp. 79
When the Rubber Meets the Roadp. 95
Big Bill Francep. 109
Ralph and the Indianp. 116
Bobby Allisonp. 123
Junior Johnsonp. 130
Driving for Juniorp. 138
Curtis and Bruton Go Bustp. 155
Hired to Run the Charlotte Motor Speedwayp. 162
Bruton and Ip. 173
Dirt Poor Dalep. 186
Dale and Richard Childressp. 193
Rick Hendrick Changes the Gamep. 201
Days of Thunderp. 213
Alan Kulwicki's Too Short Journeyp. 223
The All Star Racep. 229
Robert Yates Knows Tragedyp. 244
Bobby Allison's Nightmarep. 249
NASCAR and Bruton Go Nationalp. 253
Joe Gibbs and Dale Jarrettp. 268
Jack Roush and Mark Martinp. 272
The Death of Dale Earnhardtp. 276
The Corporatization of Racingp. 282
Good-Byep. 288
Racing of the Futurep. 294
Indexp. 299
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ISBN: 9780760337752
ISBN-10: 0760337756
Audience: General
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 304
Published: 15th March 2010
Dimensions (cm): 24.13 x 15.875  x 3.175
Weight (kg): 0.567