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Hard Driving: The Wendell Scott Story

Hard Driving: The Wendell Scott Story: The American Odyssey of NASCAR’s First Black Driver

Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Biography
Published:
2008
Audiobook Available

Wendell Scott figured he was signing up for trouble when he became NASCAR’s version of Jackie Robinson in the segregated 1950s. For the next two decades, Scott chased a dream through crashes, health problems, money troubles, and repeated encounters with discrimination. Hard Driving is the dramatic story of one man’s dogged determination to live the life he loved, and to compete, despite daunting obstacles, at the highest level of his sport.

 

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