Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR

I didn’t know much about this side of NASCAR’s history. Not overly technical, much more about characters and the sport’s development; this audiobook was well-written, a fascinating story and well narrated. And it finishes with an awesome song by a band I’d not previously heard of.I enjoyed this so much I bought the paperback to read again and a couple of songs by Brasher/Bogue!

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Absolutely GREAT book and a real tour de force of research - so much so that the author actually went to live in the South for six years in order to write it. Fascinating background to the deepest darkest origins of NASCAR which pulls absolutely no punches. Thompson even makes a case for stock car racing's origins being back in the Civil War!

Great book. Gives a good introduction to the whole area of NASCAR racing

Some nice insights, nice to follow the journey of discovery with Neal

This book had me hooked from the opening pages. So much more than a book about the origins of a sport, this is the story of many peoples lives (Red Vogt, Bill France, Raymond Parks, Red Byron, Lloyd Seay, Roy Hall and others) and how they intertwined. The backdrop is the Southern inferiority complex and identity of a region who like to thumb their nose at Yankee rules. As an English NASCAR fanatic I lapped it all up but I am sure that anybody with an interest in motor sport, and/or US history will love this. The fascinating story of how Bill France more or less stole the sport right from under the noses of all the founders and made it a dictatorship, and then went on to kick all of the whiskey bootleggers out and write a different history for future consumption is just amazing. Then the irony of him spending his final days riddled with Alzheimers telephoning all of the old cronies to talk about cars and racing is touching. I am now going on to read his book about Alan Shephard - and I don't have any interest in spaceflight!BRILLIANT!!!