Tim Richmond

Tim Richmond
Author: David Poole
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2013-02-22
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1613210906

Tim Richmond was, fellow NASCAR driver Kyle Petty said, "a stranger in time." In one regard, the flashy, flamboyant driver from Ashland, Ohio, was years ahead of the trends in a sport that would soon enjoy explosive growth in popularity. Women who were NASCAR fans loved him¬¬¬—and so did their husbands and boyfriends. Richmond believed he could use his stardom in racing as a springboard to a second career as an actor, and he had the Hollywood good looks to make that a realistic dream. At the same time, Richmond was also a throwback. He pushed his race cars hard, too hard at times, driving every lap like he was hauling moonshine through the mountains of the Carolinas with a revenuer on his rear bumper. Those who saw him drive still compare him to veterans like Curtis Turner and Joe Weatherly, who ran as hard off the track as they did off of it. In the early 1980s, however, Richmond stood out. He was not from the South; he had not grown up slinging a stock car through the dirt on red-clay ovals. He had, in fact, never raced at all until he was twenty-one. And just ten years later, after making a splash in the Indianapolis 500 as a rookie, he was emerging as one of the brightest stars and greatest talents in NASCAR's Winston Cup Series. Richmond's star was bright, but its light went out too soon. As he neared stock car racing's zenith, Richmond's life took a tragic turn. A man who thrived on the affection he felt from those who enjoyed watching him compete spent his final months almost completely shut off from that world. Tim Richmond: The Fast Life and Remarkable Times of NASCAR's Top Gun tells the memorable story of a born racer and how he raced headlong through life with the throttle wide open and his wheels burning rubber at almost every turn.

Tim Richmond

Tim Richmond
Author: David Poole
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781582618333

The memorable story of former racing star Tim Richmond is told, detailing how his life took a tragic turn as he neared stockcar racing's zenith as one of its brightest stars.

Weekly World News

Weekly World News
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1989-10-10
Genre:
ISBN:

Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.

Tim Richmond

Tim Richmond
Author: Jörg Colberg
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Great Plains
ISBN: 9783868286038

Last Best Hiding Place is a Montanan expression for living under the radar.' This edition documents places that adhere to that adage. Images include deserted streets with beer cans blowing down the road, meth warning billboards, a train on its way into a million acres of emptiness, a cowboy washing his shirts and a whole town for sale.'

AIDS Alibis

AIDS Alibis
Author: Stephanie Kane
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2010-07-07
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1439906130

A fresh, astute means for debating the issues connecting the AIDS pandemic to government policy and crime in the Americas.

Hendrick Motorsports 40 Years

Hendrick Motorsports 40 Years
Author: Ben White
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2024-10-22
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0760391238

"Hendrick Motorsports celebrates the NASCAR-champion team's 40th anniversary in competition. Forty stories from the 1980s to today relate the team's full history in this officially licensed book"--

Dale Earnhardt

Dale Earnhardt
Author:
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2001
Genre: Automobile racing
ISBN: 9781582614281

A biography which focuses on the racing career of Dale Earnhardt.

Encyclopedia of Stock Car Racing [2 volumes]

Encyclopedia of Stock Car Racing [2 volumes]
Author: Lew Freedman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 969
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0313387109

This two-volume encyclopedia is the Daytona 500 of stock car racing books—an essential "Bible" that provides an all-encompassing history of the sport as well as an up-to-date examination of modern-day stock car racing. How did stock car racing become firmly entrenched in American pop culture, especially in light of the lack of interest in motorsports overall as a spectator activity in the United States? And what has been the secret to NASCAR's financial success and growth over the last six decades? Encyclopedia of Stock Car Racing highlights approximately 250 subjects that have defined the sport since stock car racing was first organized. Organized in A-Z order, it covers all of the greatest drivers, such as Richard Petty, Jimmie Johnson, Junior Johnson, and David Pearson; the special races such as the Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400; and the famed tracks across the country, from Bristol Motor Speedway to Darlington Raceway to Talladega Superspeedway. This unprecedented resource collects information about every element of NASCAR history in one place: the early personalities who shaped the sport and set things in motion, the past greats who have now retired, and today's rising stars who continue to make stock car racing one of the most popular sports in the United States.