NASCAR Mavericks: The Rebels and Racers Who Revolutionized Stock Car Racing

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NASCAR Mavericks recounts the legendary drivers, team owners, wrenches, races, and events that have made NASCAR America's favorite motorsport for more than 75 years.


In every sport there are mavericks-trailblazers, risk-takers, hell-raisers, forward-thinkers-who drive the breakthroughs and advances that shape and define the sport. Written by longtime motorsports journalists Herb Branham and Holly Cain, NASCAR Mavericks covers the NASCAR story in chronological order, focusing on key movers and shakers-the men and women key to the sport's evolution-often related through first-hand stories. Racing great Tony Stewart's foreword sets the scene.
Accompanied by exceptional images sourced from NASCAR's archives plus other top photographers, the profiles include such NASCAR legends as:
Bill France Sr. and Bill France Jr.
The Flock Brothers
Lee and Richard Petty
Smokey Yunick
Janet Guthrie
The Earnhardts
Humpy Wheeler
Tony Stewart
Interspersed with the maverick profiles are sidebars highlighting legendary races, machines, and events like the first Daytona 500, Plymouth's Hemi Superbird, record-setting pit stops, Jeff Gordon's T-Rex car, and more.
NASCAR Mavericks proves that racing always improves the breed!

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H.A. Branham worked in the communications departments at NASCAR and Daytona International Speedway for nearly two decades. Prior to that, he worked as an editor and writer at the Tampa Tribune (Florida) for 21 years. He has authored five previous books, including four works of NASCAR history: Big Bill-The Life and Times of NASCAR Founder Bill France Sr.;Bill France Jr.-The Man Who Made NASCAR;The NASCAR Family Album; and The NASCAR Vault. Branham, a graduate of the University of South Florida, is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana. He has four children, two grandchildren, and lives in Ormond Beach, Florida, with his wife, Catherine.



Holly Cain is a veteran sports reporter, having covered all forms of auto racing for more than three decades-from Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Mario Andretti, and A.J. Foyt to the Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson eras, to today's biggest stars such as IndyCar's Scott Dixon, NASCAR's Kyle Larson, and Formula One's Max Verstappen. Cain has worked previously at major newspapers in Tampa, Dallas, and Seattle, and numerous online publications such as AOL Fanhouse, CBS Sports, NASCAR.com and the NASCAR Wire Service. She is the author of Rusty's Last Call chronicling NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee Rusty Wallace's farewell season. She makes regular appearances on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio and (PRN) along with Tampa-based television stations as a racing analyst. Cain, a graduate of the University of South Florida, has two children and lives in her hometown of Lakeland, Florida.