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In this second in a series of motorsports mythologies, twelve different titans of the stock-car sport's glorious past come to divine life, this time to race one another on a mysterious track in the Florida Everglades, seeming to arise out of nowhere. A stock-car association director is the only one to witness the spectacle race among titans from Flock to Earnhardt, conducted by none other than the sport's patriarch Big Bill France. The divine race mysteriously works out current challenges the sport faces on earth, revealing to the director answers that he needs to guide the sport forward. Which titan will prevail in the divine race? What will its outcome mean for stock-car racing's future?
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Fred Vander Ploeg is a former test driver of IndyCars for Roger Penske, having test driven shakeout laps for some of Penske's most-famous IndyCar drivers. Fred moved from IndyCar to NASCAR long ago and has since then spent decades doing race-official and special-projects work for NASCAR at its tracks across the country. He continues to serve NASCAR in those roles. He knows all the major NASCAR figures from ownership, leadership, management, and on down through the teams, drivers, crew chiefs, and track officials and staff. He is a fount of NASCAR and motorsports lore. Fred is also a licensed psychologist, pastor, and husband, and the father of a stock-car driver and IndyCar insider.
