What compels a young man or woman to spend ungodly amounts of money
driving a racecar every weekend at the local track, risking life
and limb at 150 miles an hour, entertaining friends and total
strangers? Author editorial cartoonist Bob Englehart had to find
out after witnessing the tragic wreck that killed Boston-area
driver Shane Hammond at Thompson International Speedway. This
non-fiction book explores a slice of American culture, the short
track racing obsession, and how the author became a fan as a child,
bedridden for a year by rheumatic fever with only his imagination,
pencils, and watercolors to pass the time. The author writes about
his parents' divorces and remarriages during an era when divorce
was rare, giving him and his brother Tim a stigma in their
neighborhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The author discovers the
extraordinary motivation behind Shane Hammond's desire to race by a
chance encounter with his mother and younger brother in the pits at
the last race of the season. Trackrat: Memoir of a Fan is about
love of family in spite of the complexity and confusion it may
involve and the author's working class heroes on the track. This
isn't NASCAR; this is your neighbor.
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