Wide Open: Days and Nights on the Nascar Tour - Hardcover

A behind-the-scenes look at a year in professional automobile racing, culminating in the sport's top contest for the NASCAR Winston Cup, explores the lives, loves, and feuds of racing's chief competitors and the mechanics and sponsors behind them.

carnival that travels across the country, selling speed as the salvation for all that ails. It's a world of split-second life-or-death decisions, where huge egos clash on the track, and where old country ways are disappearing into a mega-money hustle of big-city sports. It's the fastest growing sport in America, spawning idols like Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt. It is NASCAR Winston Cup Tour. . . .

Now ESPN Magazine writer Shaun Assael takes us behind the scenes, into the pits and onto the tracks, chronicling the days and nights of Americas fastest soap opera. Secrets don't keep long, he writes, but they don't have to. Everything changes fast in the speed world.

Wide Open looks at one full year on the NASCAR circuit as it has never been examined before. This extraordinary book examines the life, the loves, the blood feuds of the stars, the grunts, the drivers, the mechanics, the wives, the girlfriends, the moneymen--everyone and anyone who makes things happen.

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