Forty Plus Four, 1990-1993: First Supplement to the Forty Years of Stock Car Racing Series
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Customer Review: The Ultimate Review Of Winston Cup
Greg Fielden set out in 1988 to chronicle the history of the Winston Cup Series. The result was the four-volume epic Forty Years of Stock Car Racing. Every individual race in the history of what began as the Grand National Series is reviewed in these four volumes, with informative race reports on the highlights of each event and full field rundowns. The season reports are bracketed by overviews previewing each season, giving a big picture to the happenings within a season. These overviews help provide greater depth to understanding individual races. When Volume Four was finished, it soon became clear that fans would want follow up accounts of subsequent seasons. Thus has come Forty Plus Four, a review of the 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993 NASCAR seasons. If there is a theme to this book, it is the zenith of Dale Earnhardt's career and the rise of Ernie Irvan. Davey Allison and Alan Kulwicki play major roles as well, most notably in 1992, but their deaths in 1993 robbed the sport of two great stars and helped Earnhardt and Irvan become near-unstoppable superstars. There is superb photography throughout all five of Fielden's Forty Years epic. Among the best photos are of flags at half-staff at Pocono following Davey Allison's death, and of Neil Bonnett's subsequent tumble into the Talladega fencing. Given the sheer volume of the task at hand, it stands to reason that Fielden would make some slips - he gets some race details wrong, notably when he says, in the 1992 AC Delco 500 at Pocono, that Allison tried to crowd off Darrell Waltrip off the Tunnel Turn, thus causing Davey's terrifying tumble toward Turn Three. He also has insufficient photos of such events as the 1993 Daytona 500 - his race recap is also absurdly bland and dull, doubly so considering that 500 was among the wildest and most exciting ever - and of the crash-torn 1993 Splitfire 500 at Dover Downs. Nonetheless, this series is vital to any racefan's understanding of the sport.