Bechtel presents a riotous chronicle of the seminal 1979 NASCAR season--the year stock-car racing became a major sport. color-photo insert.

On a cold February day in 1979, when most of the Northeast was snowed in by a blizzard, NASCAR entered the American consciousness with a dramatic telecast of th

On a cold February day in 1979, when most of the Northeast was snowed in by a blizzard, NASCAR entered the American consciousness with a dramatic telecast of th

"From a former NASCAR champion and current Fox Sports announcer, an intimate account of the crash that killed racing legend Dale Earnhardt, Sr"--