Nascar Racers: How They Work

by Mel Gilden

Welcome to the NASCAR Unlimited Division, where the competition is intense and the racing is extreme. Unlimited racecars are the ultimate in high tech, built to reach unheard-of speeds, perform incredible stunts, and take on impossible off-road courses! Are you ready for action? Because we're only getting started... The high-tech CGI cars of NASCAR Racers are based on the workigs of real autos, designed with the help of NASCAR engineers. This book takes you through the mechanics of the cars, Rescue Racers, and transmport vehicles that appear on the hit show on Fox Kids. Check out the never-before-seen inner workings of features like aerodynamic panels, rocket boosters, morphing tires, the drogue chute, and more! Welcome to the NASCAR Unlimited Division, where the competition is intense and the racing is extreme. Unlimited racecars are the ultimate in high tech, built to reach unheard-of speeds, perform incredible stunts, and take on impossible off-road courses! Are you ready for action? Because we're only getting started... The high-tech CGI cars of NASCAR Racers are based on the workigs of real autos, designed with the help of NASCAR engineers. This book takes you through the mechanics of the cars, Rescue Racers, and transmport vehicles that appear on the hit show on Fox Kids. Check out the never-before-seen inner workings of features like aerodynamic panels, rocket boosters, morphing tires, the drogue chute, and more!

64 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2000

About the author

Mel Gilden is the author of many children's books, some of which received rave reviews in such places as School Library Journal and Booklist. His multi-part stories for children appeared frequently in the Los Angeles Times. His popular novels and short stories for grown-ups have also received good reviews in the Washington Post and other publications. (See new publications under his name at the Kindle Store of Amazon.com.)
Licensed properties include adaptations of feature films, and of TV shows such as Beverly Hills, 90210; and NASCAR Racers. He has also written books based on video games and has written original stories based in the Star Trek universe. His short stories have appeared in many original and reprint anthologies.
He has written cartoons for TV, has developed new shows, and was assistant story editor for the DIC television production of The Real Ghostbusters. He consulted at Disney and Universal, helping develop theme park attractions. Gilden spent five years as co-host of the science-fiction interview show, Hour-25, on KPFK radio in Los Angeles.
Gilden lectures to school and library groups, and has been known to teach fiction writing. He lives in Los Angeles, California, where the debris meets the sea, and still hopes to be an astronaut when he grows up.