Charlotte Motor Speedway

Charlotte, North Carolina, is the virtual epicenter of modern NASCAR racing, with several of todays top teams setting up shop in the immediate vicinity. Its appropriate that nearby Charlotte Motor Speedway has a rich NASCAR heritage that dates back four decades. This photographic retrospective follows the history of NASCAR at Charlotte Motor Speedway as the sport grows from a regional attraction to a national obsession and the cars evolve from factory-stock automobiles to hand-built racers. Readers also witness how the track drastically changes over the years, and re-live epic battles among past legends like Fireball Roberts, Junior Johnson, Fred Lorenzen, Richard Petty, and Cale Yarborough, and current favorites like Dale Earnhardt, Mark Martin, and Jeff Gordon. Greg Fielden, a motorsport historian, lives at Surfside Beach, South Carolina. Softbound, 10 x 10, 156 pages, 100 color, 100 b&wFielden, Greg is the author of 'Charlotte Motor Speedway' with ISBN 9780760307519 and ISBN 0760307512.