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Who won the first Daytona 500? Fans still debate whether it was midwestern champion Johnny Beauchamp, declared the victor at the finish line, or longtime NASCAR driver Lee Petty, declared the official winner a few days after the race. Author John Havick interviewed scores of people, analyzed film of the race, and pored over newspaper accounts of the event. He uses this information and his deep knowledge of the sport as it worked then to determine what probably happened. But he also tells a much bigger story.

They said Omegas don't belong on the track. She's about to make them choke on her dust. All her life, Auren Vale wanted one thing—to be the first Omega to race in Formula One. But when her designation ruins everything, she's blacklisted from the sport she lives for. No pack. No sponsor. No...

The powers-that-be in auto racing in the 1920s, namely the American Automobile Association's Contest Board, prohibited everyone who wasn't a White male from the sport. Dewey Gaston, a Black man who went by the name Rajo Jack, broke into the epicenter of racing in California, refusing to let the pervasive racism of his day stop him from competing against entire fields of White drivers. In The Brown Bullet, Bill Poehler uncovers the life of a long-forgotten trailblazer and the great lengths he took to even get on the track.

She was never meant to be seen. Now she's the Alpha everyone's watching. Rory Lane has spent her life trackside—grease-stained, scent-masked, and hiding in plain sight. Disguised as an Alpha to survive in the testosterone-fueled world of Formula One, she's just another nameless pit tech, watching the life she was born for roar past in a blur of speed and fame. Because Omegas? They don't drive. They decorate. But when she slips into a virtual race to cover for a no-show and demolishes the reigning champion in front of a live audience, she sets off a chain reaction no firewall can contain.