Beach Racers: Daytona Before NASCAR

by Dick Punnett

Every spring, hordes of fans descend upon Florida for the Daytona 500, the famed first race in the NASCAR season. But how many know that racers have been bringing fast cars to the beach for more than one hundred years? Beach Racers portrays the thrills and dangers of the first automobile races in Daytona. In an era of poor roads, the flat, wide sands of Ormond and Daytona beaches proved to be the ideal venue for engineers and drivers pushing the technological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813032601
• ISBN13: 9780813032603
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.9"