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Awesome Bill from Dawsonville
Bill Elliott
My Life in NASCAR
Harper Entertainment
October 2006
On Sale: October 10, 2006
320 pages ISBN: 0061125733 EAN: 9780061125737 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In this long-awaited autobiography, the legendary Bill
Elliott details
his childhood in rural North Georgia, building cars from
scratch,
struggling on the anonymous small-time tracks of the South
to his
against-the-odds rise to the pinnacle of NASCAR stardom:
Winston Cup
Champion. From Daytona to Talladega, from Bristol
to Sonoma,
ride shoulder to shoulder with Elliott as he battles Dale
Earnhardt,
Darrell Waltrip, Ricky Rudd, Rusty Wallace, and Alan
Kulwicki for
NASCAR's ultimate prize. Through Elliott's eyes we meet the
colorful
cast of old-school characters who built NASCAR: Cale
Yarborough, Junior
Johnson, the Allisons, Carl Kiekhaefer, and, of course, the
France
family. We join Bill in the car (and under it) as he sets
the all-time
record for the fastest official speed ever recorded in a
stock car (a
record he still holds today). Learn the
secret—revealed for
the first time—behind the Elliott family's unquestioned
mastery of the
sport's super speedways. Watch NASCAR grow from a southern
diversion
into a national phenomenon, and see Bill Elliott grow with it,
ultimately becoming one of the sport's most popular heroes.
In 1985
Elliott captured the inaugural Winston Million and became
the first
NASCAR driver ever to appear on the cover of Sports
Illustrated.
Three years later he captured the Winston Cup Championship.
He went on
to be voted NASCAR Driver of the Decade for the 1980s by
NASCAR fans.
He was also voted Most Popular Driver sixteen times.
Elliott
also shares his thoughts on the dark side of the racing
life: the
stresses it can place on relationships, the ever-present
physical
risks, and the weight of fame. He addresses the
racing-related deaths
of competitors and friends. He is candid and critical in
discussing the
intense rivalry between him and the late Dale Earnhardt, and
he sheds
new light on their storied relationship as well as on
Earnhardt's
shocking death. Elliott discusses the future of NASCAR with
critiques
of its management and restrictor plates, and he takes on the
controversial issues of track and driver safety. A
window
into the compelling personality of Bill Elliott, as well as
a primer on
the ascent of America's fastestgrowing sport, this is the
definitive
insider's view of the rising NASCAR nation.
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