In the past twenty years, big-time stock-car racing has become
America's fastest growing spectator sport. Winston Cup races draw
larger audiences-at the tracks and on television-than any other
sport, and drivers like Dale Jarrett, Jeff Gordon, and Mark Martin
have become cultural icons whose endorsements command millions.
What accounts for NASCAR's surging popularity? For years a
"closeted" NASCAR fan, Professor Jim Wright took advantage of a
sabbatical in 1999 to attend stock-car races at seven of the
Winston Cup's legendary venues: Daytona, Indianapolis, Darlington,
Charlotte, Richmond, Atlanta, and Talladega. The "Fixin' to Git
Road Tour" resulted in this book-not just a travelogue of Wright's
year at the races, but a fan's valentine to the spectacle, the
pageantry, and the subculture of Winston Cup racing. Wright busts
the myth that NASCAR is a Southern sport and takes on critics who
claim that there's nothing to racing but "drive fast, turn left,"
revealing the skill, mental acuity, and physical stamina required
by drivers and their crews. Mostly, though, he captures the
experience of loyal NASCAR fans like himself, describing the drama
in the grandstands-and in the bars, restaurants, parking lots, juke
joints, motels, and campgrounds where race fans congregate. He
conveys the rich, erotic sensory overload-the sights, the sounds,
the smells, the feel-of weekends at the Winston Cup race tracks.
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