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Stock car racing was built on more than powerful engines, roaring grandstands, and high-banked speedways. It was built on rivalry: driver against driver, family against family, manufacturer against manufacturer, and generation against generation. The Great Stock Car Rivalries: The Drivers, Families, Feuds, and Championship Battles That Built American Oval Racing tells the fact-based story of the rivalries that shaped one of America's most distinctive sports. From moonshine roads and rough Southern short tracks to Daytona, Talladega, Darlington, Martinsville, Charlotte, and the modern playoff era, this book follows the personalities and contests that turned stock car racing into a national institution. Lee and Richard Petty, David Pearson, Junior Johnson, Bobby and Donnie Allison, Cale Yarborough, Darrell Waltrip, Dale Earnhardt, Bill Elliott, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart, the Busch brothers, Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, and many others appear in a sweeping narrative of speed, pride, innovation, conflict, and championship pressure. Written in a polished, fact-only narrative style, this book explores how family names, factory wars, superspeedway danger, team dynasties, television, safety changes, and playoff drama kept American oval racing alive through every era. It is a story of cars, but more importantly, it is a story of the people who made those cars matter. Trademark Disclaimer This book is an independent, unofficial historical work and is not authorized, endorsed, sponsored, licensed, or approved by NASCAR, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, Daytona International Speedway, Talladega Superspeedway, any racing team, driver, driver estate, manufacturer, sponsor, sanctioning body, broadcaster, venue, or affiliated organisation mentioned within. All trademarks, service marks, logos, team names, driver names, race names, series names, car model names, manufacturer names, sponsor names, and other protected marks are the property of their respective owners. Their use in this book is strictly for factual, historical, biographical, descriptive, and editorial purposes. No association, affiliation, endorsement, sponsorship, or official relationship is implied.

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