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The Blount Report
The Blount Report

The Blount Report

NASCAR's Most Overrated & Underrated Drivers, Cars, Teams, and Tracks
By Terry Blount, Foreword by Allen Bestwick

SPORTS & RECREATION

240 Pages, 6 x 9

Formats: Cloth, EPUB, Mobipocket, PDF

Cloth, $24.95 (US $24.95) (CA $27.95)

ISBN 9781600780899

Rights: WOR

Triumph Books (Feb 2009)

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Overview

While fans continue to debate the relative merits of their favorite drivers, ESPN.com's premier motor sports writer Terry Blount now brings some needed clarity and perspective to America's biggest spectator sport, rating drivers, teams, cars, and tracks, and while bluntly letting readers know which are overrated and which are underrated in a new book that's bound to further the debate and stir up more controversy. Did the reputation match the results? Was the performance better than the perception? and how much of a factor was the car? are all questions asked and discussed in this investigation. Along with rating drivers, The Blount Report also rates a vast array of the NASCAR world from speedways to races and rules to records.

Author Biography

Terry Blount
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Terry Blount is a commentator for ESPN.com. He previously spent 25 years as an award-winning sports reporter and columnist, including 15 years of covering auto racing. He is a regular guest on ESPN2's NASCAR Now and a member of the National Motorsports Press Association, the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association, and the voting panel for the Texas Motorsports Hall of Fame. He is also a member of the distinguished panel that selects the Driver of the Year Award. Allen Bestwick is the host of ESPN's NASCAR Countdown and the play-by-play announcer for the Sprint Cup Series races.

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Press Releases

Whether you saw him winning the Nationwide Series race in Las Vegas in 2008 or just barely missing out on winning the Daytona 500 in 2007, ESPN.com motorsports columnist Terry Blount has only one true title for Mark Martin - the #1 most overrated driver in all of NASCAR.  Old-school NASCAR fans will love Blount's assertion that the California Speedway is the most overrated of the tracks, especially after NASCAR moved the legendary Southern 500 from Darlington and gave Fontana the Labor Day weekend event.

The Blount Report: NASCAR's Most Overrated and Underrated Drivers, Cars, Teams, and Tracks by Terry Blount pulls no punches and takes no prisoners. With more than 25 years of sports journalism under his belt - including 15 covering auto racing - Blount has seen, talked to and worked with the most high-profile personalities in the NASCAR business. He is finally setting the record straight once and for all about the most controversial NASCAR debates ever argued between fans.

NASCAR fans will be stunned when they see where he ranked prominent drivers such as Michael Waltrip and Sterling Martin, famous speedways such as Pocono and Martinsville, popular events such as The Sprint Cup Challenge and legendary records such as Petty's 200 victories.  Nobody is left out, including Dale Earnhardt, Jr., NASCAR's most popular driver. Blount goes through the best of best of NASCAR's history, including sections on the most overrated and underrated rules, records, events, cars, trophies, and more.

The Blount Report is not a fan's opinion of NASCAR history; it is a detailed, highly-researched thesis that will make even the most die-hard fan admit that their feelings have biases their opinions and weakened all previous arguments about who and what is the most overrated and underrated ever.  NASCAR fans will be debating Blount's assertions for years to come.

About the Author:
Terry Blount joined ESPN.com in October 2006 after 25 years as an award-winning sports reporter and columnist, including 15 years of covering auto racing. In his role at ESPN, he helps lead and shape coverage of NASCAR and other racing series. He is a regular guest on ESPN2's NASCAR Now. Blount is a member of the National Motorsports Press Association, the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association, and the voting panel for the Texas Motorsports Hall of Fame. He is also a member of the distinguished panel that selects the Driver of the Year Award. Blount is an honors graduate of the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Arts degree in radio/television communications.

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