Little Bit Sideways: One Week Inside a Nascar Winston Cup Race Team | 
 enlarge | Author: Scott Huler
Publisher: Motorbooks
Category: Book
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0760304556
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.720973
EAN: 9780760304556
ASIN: 0760304556
Publication Date: March 8, 1999
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A Little Bit Sideways Scott Huler. Subtitled: One Week Inside a NASCAR Winston Cup Race Team. This rambunctious tour takes you into thedrivers seat, the cocktail parties, the race shop, the broadcast booth, and beyond, capturing the essence of NASCAR. Discover how minute changes behind the scenes of a NASCAR racing team directly affect the cars performance on race day. This insiders view explores the inner workings of a NASCAR race team by covering the events and discussing how the crew chief, driver, and mechanics interact. Testing, design, set up, tires, sponsorship, ownership, technical inspections, qualifying and regulations are broken down to offer a look behind the scenes of today's NASCAR race week day by day.
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I couldn't even spell NASCAR - December 24, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
and now I feel like I could drive it. This is the book that lays it all out in a logical order, explains the terms, the rules and the strategies while taking you on an emotional rollercoaster ride. Will the car qualify for the race? You can feel the tension because for that week Huler lived it. This isn't a book full of old stories that drivers told a writer - this is an observation, full of detail - it's good old particaptory journalism like Plimpton wrote, talking to (and about) everyone from the owners and spnsors to the fans and the scalpers. What a great book!
This Book Incites Interest Even if You Never Heard of NASCAR January 29, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'd never heard of NASCAR, never wanted to know anything about it. But when I heard a short reading by Huler (the writer) from this book, I had to buy/read it. His writing could be on any topic: ice, dirt, race cars... it's just facinating in an accessable, fun, fast read. I'll read anything he writes now, and gain an appreciation of worlds I never knew. Great read. I just may join the 200,000 on site NASCAR fans next year because of it!
Best of the bunch! September 29, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you want to read one book about NASCAR, I recommend this one. Not because it's a hand-holding introduction, but because it's the best. It just does such a great job describing so many aspects of NASCAR. The organizing principle of the book is to examine a week in the life of Kenny Wallace's Square D Racing Team, but along the way, the author looks at NASCAR's personalities, history, technology, tracks, and fans. Huler has a real flair for description, and a genuine but not fawning affection for the sport.I've also read Shaun Assael's "Wide Open" and Paul Hemphill's "Wheels," which are similar in many ways but to my mind are both inferior. Assael's book seemed flat compared to Huler's, though fans of Dave Marcis and Bobby Hamilton may enjoy the coverage that those drivers receive in "Wide Open." Hemphill's book spent a lot of time on a thesis that I soon found repetitively handled: NASCAR was once the province of the Southern working man but is now corporate entertainment. Both Assael and Hemphill follow NASCAR for a whole season and seem to get bored with it. Huler stays focused on a shorter timespan to much better effect. I've read some more technical approaches to NASCAR as well, and found that Huler almost always snuck the information in those books into "A Little Bit Sideways." Although I find this the best introduction to NASCAR because it's so engaging to read and so comprehensive in the bargain, those who are interested in learning more about NASCAR might also try "NASCAR for Dummies" by Mark "Awesome!" Martin and Juliet Macur. That book lacks Huler's style and story-line, but it does have a lot of interesting information about NASCAR, including some tidbits on strategy and technology that I haven't seen elsewhere.
Highly recommended for fan and non fan, alike December 16, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I lived in the South all my life, always aware of NASCAR, watching races every now and then. Even so, I haven't tuned into to a NASCAR race in probably 25 years. Because of this book, I will when the next season starts.One can truly begin to understand the mystique of NASCAR after reading A Little Bit Sideways. Scott Huler's obvious love for the material really shines through. His writing transforms what, in lesser hands, could have been a dry and boring recitation of minute details into an interesting and compelling human interest story. Read it. You won't be disappointed.
FANtastic October 3, 1999
Although I have never been to Charlotte Motor Speedway, after reading this book I felt as if I had.
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