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The 200-MPH Billboard

The Inside Story of How Big Money Changed NASCAR

The 200-MPH Billboard
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Author:

Mark Yost

Foreword by:

Brian Williams

Format: Hardcover, 320 Pages
Item: 144226
ISBN: 9780760328125
Publisher: Motorbooks
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Size: 6 x 9
Weight: 1.313 lb.
Edition: First
Published: August 15th 2007
DC: AP
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What began on the dusty racetracks of the rural South is now a world-class enterprise, as closely watched by Wall Street as by hometown racing fans. How NASCAR grew from its provincial roots to become a big business of international proportions is the story Mark Yost tells in The 200-MPH Billboard.

A seasoned sports and business reporter for the Wall Street Journal and contributor to the New York Times and the Sports Business Journal, Yost demystifies the economics and politics behind NASCAR sponsorship. His book takes us behind the scenes of some of the head-turning corporate deals that altered the way NASCAR does business.

From Junior Johnson’s contract with Darrell Waltrip and Mountain Dew, which announced a significant change, to deals between the likes of Dale Jr. and Budweiser, Tony Stewart and Home Depot, NASCAR and Fox Television, this book clearly tracks the subtle and not-so-subtle transformations that corporate sponsorship has wrought in recent years. And it offers a rare insider’s look at what these changes have meant for NASCAR and its devoted fans. 

Mark Yost has reported on sports and business for nearly twenty years. He has written for the Dow Jones Newswire and the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal. Yost continues to write for the Wall Street Journal Leisure and Arts pages, where he writes about the business and economics of sports, as well as Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal and other publications. Yost is also the author of Tailgating, Sacks, and Salary Caps: How the NFL Became the Most Successful Sports League in History.

He lives in Lake Elmo, Minnesota, but calls Brooklyn, New York, home.

NASCAR.com, Sept. 25, 2007

“If you have any questions about how NASCAR went from southern-based fixture to by-God sporting phenomenon, you can find the answer in Mark Yost’s new book … Some books of this type leave you gasping for air in the midst of statistics, concepts and strategies; this one doesn’t … This offering from Motorbooks is exhaustively researched … Yost’s writing style is easy and comparatively less dense than almost all of them, yet he still gets the story across in language plain and proper … This book gets a strong buy from this writer.”

                                                                                                                                                
Publishers Weekly

 “Business and sports reporter Yost takes on the rise of NASCAR, bringing readers into the deals that have turned a Southern good ol' boy racing circuit into a clean-shaven marketing goliath.”

“NASCAR fans with an interest in business history will enjoy this 320-page book, which examines how NASCAR grew into a multibillion-dollar business through profitable advertising deals with corporate sponsors.” –Gayot.com

SpeedTVBooks.com, August 2007

Book Review by Gregg Leary

“A thought-provoking read that documents a largely untold side of NASCAR racing.” 
                                                    

Area Auto Racing News, Oct. 23, 2007

“The book is an interesting and fast read.”

National Speed Sport News, December 2007

NationalSpeedSportNews.com, December 2007

“Let me recommend the ideal holiday gift for a racing fan: Mark Yost’s engaging book, ‘The 200 MPH Billboard,’ subtitled ‘The Inside Story of How Big Money Changed NASCAR.’ It is an intriguing story, hard to put down … Both of these books belong in every serious fan’s library.”

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Contents

Acknowledgments

 

Foreword               
 

Introduction          Fifty Years of Racing at Daytona

 

One                         A Good Old Boy Goes Courting

                                How NASCAR Wooed Corporate America

 

Two                        The Suite Life

                                Inside NASCAR Corporate Hospitality

                                                                                                                       

Three                      Betting the Farm

                                The Early Days of NASCAR

 

Four                        From Rags to Riches

                                Junior Johnson Turns Tobacco into Gold

 

Five                        The Sponsorship Shepherds

                                Four Hundred Cases of Coffee and a Side of Viggy

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