A Little Bit Sideways: Battling Giants in Nascar's Golden Age - Paperback

by Scott Huler (Author)

Take a rip-roaring ride into the glory years of NASCAR as you travel with the team not only behind the wheel and in the pits at the track but also to the cocktail parties, broadcast booth and beyond. With unfettered access, award-winning author Scott Huler explored the inner workings of a stock car racing team. His insightful, colorful text takes you back to the days when Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt, and more were battling for supremacy. This insider view follows the always colorful Kenny Wallace as he and his Square D team win and lose on-track battles at Martinsville and Charlotte. This dynamic book explores the inner workings of the greatest era in NASCAR racing. Take a wild ride down memory lane--any race fan who remembers the days when stock car racing was king will love A Little Bit Sideways.

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Spend a tumultuous week behind the scenes with Kenny Wallace and the Square D team as their independently funded team fights to compete with the best of the best in the 1990s, the golden era of NASCAR racing. This rambunctious tour takes you into the driver's seat, the cocktail parties, the race shop, the broadcast booth, and beyond, providing a look at the sport during the height of NASCAR popularity.

As Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt, Dale Jarrett and other legends fight for the championship, Kenny Wallace and the Square D team battle to qualify and stay relevant in an era when a spot in Sunday's show was hotly contested and not guaranteed. Author Scott Huler spent months with the team so he could chronicle how stock car racing works through the window of the 1997 races at Martinsville and Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The result is a dramatic read that offers insight on the inner workings of NASCAR team, from tire and gas strategy to engineering, car set up, and the fine points of a fabulous pit stop. Throughout the book, the author captures Wallace's fiery discourse and passionate personality, and takes the reader into all corners of NASCAR racing, from tech inspections and RVs in the infield to cocktail parties and banging fenders on the track.

In A Little Bit Sideways, author Scott Huler goes over the wall and does for NASCAR what Roger Angell did for baseball, David Foster Wallace did for tennis, and Hunter S. Thompson did for the Kentucky Derby--capture the soul of the sport with gritty, honest reporting of its colorful characters and distinctive landscapes.