He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back

He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back

The True Story of the Year the King, Jaws, Earnhardt, and the Rest of NASCAR's Feudin', Fightin' Good Ol' Boys Put Stock Car Racing on the Map

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Publisher Description

On a cold February day in 1979, when most of the Northeast was snowed in by a blizzard, NASCAR entered the American consciousness with a dramatic telecast of the Daytona 500. It was the first 500-mile race to be broadcast live on national television and featured the heroes and legends of the sport racing on a hallowed track. With one of the wildest finishes in sports history -- a finish that was just the start of the drama -- everything changed for what is now America's second most popular sport.

He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back is the story of an emerging sport trying to find its feet. It's the story of how Bobby Allison, Donnie Allison, Cale Yarborough, Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Darrell Waltrip, A.J. Foyt, and Kyle Petty came together in an unforgettable season that featured the first nationally televised NASCAR races. There were rivalries -- even the sibling kind -- and plenty of fistfights, feuds, and frenzied finishes. Rollicking and full of larger-than-life characters, He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back is the remarkable tale of the birth of modern stock-car racing.

GENRE
Sports & Outdoors
RELEASED
2010
February 8
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Little, Brown and Company
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
1.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Tex23 ,

He crashed me so I ....

As an amateur driver of sports cars on closed circuit road racing tracks, I was never a fan of "Roundy-round racing.

However, I read this amazingly well-researched piece of non-fiction as if it was a fast-moving historical novel -- and, in the process, became educated about a version of motorsports i previously ignored.

A must-read for any gear head.

Tex Guthrie
Scottsdale

MacStar300 ,

NASCAR’s Biggest Names Collide

A fast-paced read that tracks the races from NASCAR’s yesterday that not only helped put the sport on the map, but make household names of good ol southern boys who probably never imagined their lives would go they way they did

Jetta98 ,

A must!

Anyone with more than a passing interest in NASCAR would enjoy this book. It gives a great behind the scenes account of the 1979 season.

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