Book Description:
From dirt tracks and small towns to the current billion-dollar Sprint Nextel Cup Series, NASCAR has rapidly risen to become one of the most thrilling spectacles in sports today. The commitment, passion and desire of the teams and drivers are captured in NASCAR in Photographs by bold and striking images. Original interviews with Junior Johnson, Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough, Bill Elliott and Jeff Gordon are accompanied by insightful analysis from a seasoned racing journalist.

EXCERPT

   George Elliott smiles that day of the parade held for his youngest son back in 1983 and then recalled from his Bible Belt education that a prophet is never honored in his own land. Maybe so. But the rules seem to work differently if, like Seay or that flashy kid named Gordon five decades later, you can ride the crest of time and bring home the field in a roaring stock car with nostrils flared and a big number blaring on a couple of tons of sheet metal, iron and steel. Or if, like the steely-willed Big Bill, you can see far enough around the bend to create a racing series that constantly evokes heavenly myths as well as man.