Racing Against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing's African-American Champion

by Carole Boston Weatherford

Book Overview

Wendell O. Scott made history as the only black driver to win a race in a NASCAR Grand National (now Spring Cup) division. Born in Danville, Virginia, he scrimped and saved to buy his first car, a Model T, at age fourteen. Although he "loved to turn the wheel of a racecar, work magic on an engine, and then push it faster than it was ever meant to go," he never had the resources or sponsorship to buy a brand-new racecar. Using secondhand Fords that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761454659
• ISBN13: 9780761454656
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Two Lions
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 11.8" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5