NASCAR Reads: He Crashed Me so I Crashed Him Back
A Review of 2010's Best Sports Book
The book focuses on the year 1979, which unquestionably is the year when Stock Car Racing made many pivotal steps towards becoming the phenomenon of NASCAR that we know today. Bechtel takes readers through each of the moments of progress chapter by chapter, highlighting NASCAR's first moments of widely viewed televised racing, the launch of ESPN and their need to fill time-slots with something other than re-runs, and the personal quests of drivers who would later be known as legends of NASCAR.
One only has to glance through the sources and bibliography at the back of the book to understand the depth and breadth of Bechtel's research in creating He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back. The 1979 NASCAR season has been reconstructed through interviews with sports writers, drivers and crewmembers as well as tedious research through decades of written material on Stock Car Racing.
Although He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back is jam-packed with more events and historical figures than some American History textbooks, Bechtel has managed to tell a history of NASCAR that is not only informative but is also engaging, interesting and downright funny at times.
He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back is not a story about the glory of Stock Car Racing, but the behind the scenes relationships and turmoil that helped shape NASCAR into what it is today and the heart of the sport that fans so dearly love.
Undoubtedly if you have a love for the NASCAR, racing, or sports in general you will enjoy every page of Mark Bechtel's He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back. And even if your interest in Stock Car Racing is fleeting at best, this is a read that will make you want to strap on a helmet and experience the track from the best seat in the house: the driver's seat.
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Post a CommentWell written!
Interesting, Denise, thanks
PV Love from the Heart lady. My laptop has been having problems all day so this is the support I give.