Swampy’s Sunday Books: ‘Daytona’ by Ed Hinton.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Ed Hinton crafted a great book on the history of the race business in Daytona Beach. The book is very thorough to include much about the drivers themselves. At many points the book reads almost as fiction as the stories of these drivers and their owners blaze trails of auto racing history.
I remember talking to friend who is a Florida auto racing expert who praised the book for it’s accuracy about the racing industry.
I was unhappy to see little about the actual history of Daytona Beach itself. The book never purports to tell the Daytona Beach history, but with the main title being ‘Daytona’, I hope for more.
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