The NASCAR Way: The Business That Drives the Sport
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.89 (597 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0471183164 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2016-06-06 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
NASCAR Is a Great Business Mariusz Skonieczny NASCAR is a great business and International Speedway Corporation is a company that benefits from the sport the most. I bought this book because due to the economic recession fewer people attended races and the stock price of International Speedway Corporation fell to an attractive level. The owners of NASCAR own a substantial portion of International Speedway Corporation, which makes this company possess an incredible competitive advantage. The author also describes the entire racing business and how it compares to other spor. Jim Riggs said An Inside View of NASCAR. I'm not a racing fan, but I am a person who enjoys a good book with a great story. In The NASCAR Way, Robert Hagstrom takes the reader into every facet of the sports organization that is NASCAR. If you have an appreciation for the sport, this will be a great book for you, if not, you like me may gain an appreciation of both the sport and the NASCAR way of doing things. How this empire rose from a few bootleggers engaging in afternoon challenges to a multi-billion dollar industry is fascinating. Perhaps the most fascinating of . An Inside View of NASCAR Jim Riggs I'm not a racing fan, but I am a person who enjoys a good book with a great story. In The NASCAR Way, Robert Hagstrom takes the reader into every facet of the sports organization that is NASCAR. If you have an appreciation for the sport, this will be a great book for you, if not, you like me may gain an appreciation of both the sport and the NASCAR way of doing things. How this empire rose from a few bootleggers engaging in afternoon challenges to a multi-billion dollar industry is fascinating. Perhaps the most fascinating of
And you can never slack off." . Now imagine forty-one other cars around you, all doing the same thing, just inches away from you, scraping against the side of your car and nudging your bumper as they try to pass you. Originally a way for moonshine runners to compete against each other by the light of day in informal--and legal--settings, stock car racing was organized by "Big Bill" France in the late 1940s under the aegis of NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) but soon moved to the larger, asphalt tracks of today. The author of The Warren Buffett Way gets behind the steering wheel of professional stock car racing--NASCAR, to be exact--making a few gushing laps around
The NASCAR Way explains how and why dozens of Fortune 500 companies have been lining up to jump on board." --Michael T. "Hagstrom understands how our business works both on and off the track. France, President, NASCAR "From its origins in Daytona in the '50s to today's live network broadcasts for millions of devoted fans, Robert Hagstrom offers an in-depth look at the fastest-growing sport in the country. The book is definitely a winner!" --Dale Jarrett, Winston Cup driver. Hargrave, Senior Motorsports Manager, Anheuser-Busch, Inc. "It is great to be associated with NASCAR, the France family, and for me to get paid for what I love-to race! In The NASCAR Way, you see a prime-time sport." --Dale Earnhardt, 7-time NASCAR W