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This title follows the success of "Hot Rod Racing" and "Superstox and Stock Cars" (both of which have gone for reprint within the first four months of publication). The later seventies saw several other classes come into being - this volume will cover the three main formula as well these others and moves into the early eighties (the others only looked at mid 1970s) thus avoiding any repetition of material from the first two books.
A selection of photographs illustrating hot rod racing in the 1970s.
Short oval racing (Hot Rod and Stock Car racing) was, and remains, one of the best supported forms of motor racing in the country both in terms of competitors and spectators. Hot Rod and Stock Car racing had seen packed terraces throughout the sixties and seventies as the public went to their local circuits each week to cheer on their local heroes (and of course see the crash and bash). The sport had developed much through these two decades and arrived in the eighties as a slick, professional looking sport which now boasted national rather than local heroes. While the top level of the sport became more costly the promoters began to introduce new classes to cater for the drivers who had got l...
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