Trophies and Scars is the profoundly personal, sincere, and remarkably revealing story of the life and times of NASCAR Hall of Famer Ray Evernham.
You needn\'t be a racing fan to appreciate Evernham\'s inspiring journey of tireless persistence, radical determination, steadfast leadership, and fearles.
Many of these painful challenges ultimately brought rich rewards, such as the formation of the Evernham Family Racing for a Reason Foundation, funding for IGNITE, education and training programs for young adults with high-functioning autism or Asperger\'s syndrome, his loving marriage to Erin, and the birth of their daughter Caite.
Woven throughout all these stories recounting the many twists and turns of his life, he reveals how he buried himself in work to cope with his personal challenges: his son Ray J.\'s battle with leukemia and later autism diagnosis, his controversial legal clash with Jeremy Mayfield, his divorce, and the scandal surrounding his relationship with second wife Erin Crocker.
The book also details Evernham\'s time spearheading the return of Dodge to NASCAR, building Evernham Motorsports into one of the most successful NASCAR teams, as well as his transformation into a TV personality with roles as a NASCAR analyst for SPEED, ESPN, ABC, FOX, and NBC and as host to his own TV series, AmeriCarna, on the Velocity channel. 24 team to three championships in four seasons (1995, 1997, 1998) and a series-leading forty-nine wins, revealing in candid detail how and why their storied relationship came to an end.
Evernham shares previously untold tales of how the duo led the No.
They would prove to be one of the most potent racing duos in history.
A brief, ill-fated, and downright volatile stint on Alan Kulwicki\'s crew, turned into a right place at the right time scenario, sparking a seminal partnership with racing phenom Jeff Gordon.
As a leader of a race team on the technical rather than the driving side, he discovered new skills critical to building successful racing organizations.
It was time to change careers.
When his dreams of becoming an Indy car sensation literally crashed and burned, he turned to Roger Penske\'s International Race of Champions (IROC), before another brutal crash forced him to give up his Indy dream for good.
By age eighteen, he was banging fenders with good success on the Northeast short track circuit.
A son of the Jersey Shore, Evernham dedicated his life to fulfilling his boyhood dream of becoming a professional race car driver.
Trophies and Scars is the profoundly personal, sincere, and remarkably revealing story of the life and times of NASCAR Hall of Famer Ray Evernham
