The Dirt Under the Asphalt: An Underground History of Stock Car Racing
Jack Flowers covered his first stock car race when he was sixteen and the sports editor of The Moultrie Observer (Georgia). It was the Rebel 300 in Montgomery, Alabama, and it was won by Buck Baker in one of Carl Keikaefer's Chrysler 300s.Since then, Flowers, now seventy, has worked for eleven different daily newspapers, mostly in Florida, covering stock car racing off and on, along with other forms of auto racing and the Indianapolis 500.Leaving the daily newspaper business in 1979, Flowers began working for auto racing trade publications that cover NASCAR.Today he still writes weekly stories about NASCAR forArea Auto Racing News (AARN), andNational Speed Sport News (NSSN).While working forGrand National Scene(nowNASCAR Scene) andSpeedway Scene (no longer in publication), Flowers and Tom Higgins, the retired motorsports writer ofThe Charlotte Observer(North Carolina), covered every NASCAR race, from coast to coast, for seventeen consecutive years.