"Racing to the Finish"

Book Description from the publisher:

Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s only authorized book revealing the inside track on his final year of racing and retirement from the driver’s seat.
“Time was running out on my charade… My secrets were about to be exposed to the world.”
It was a seemingly minor crash at Michigan International Speedway in June 2016 that ended the day early for Dale Earnhardt Jr. What he didn’t know was that it would also end his driving for the year. He’d dealt with concussions before, but concussions are like snowflakes, no two are the same. And recovery can be brutal, and lengthy.
When NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. retired from professional stock car racing in 2017, he walked away from his career as a healthy man. But for years, he had worried that the worsening effects of multiple racing-related concussions would end not only his time on the track but his ability to live a full and happy life.
Torn between a race-at-all-costs culture and the fear that something was terribly wrong, Earnhardt tried to pretend that everything was fine, but the private notes about his escalating symptoms that he kept on his phone reveal a vicious cycle: suffering injuries on Sunday, struggling through the week, then recovering in time to race again the following weekend. For the first time, he shares these notes and fully reveals the physical and emotional struggles he faced as he fought to close out his career on his own terms.
In this candid reflection, Earnhardt opens up about his frustration with the slow recovery, his admiration for the woman who stood by him through it all, and his determination to share his own experience so that others don’t have to suffer in silence. Steering his way to the final checkered flag of his storied career proved to be the most challenging race and most rewarding finish of his life.

My Review:
"Racing to the Finish: My Story" is the book written by Dale Earnhardt Jr. himself giving the reader a first-hand account of the end of his racing career.  This is a must-read for Nascar fans and especially for those whom have following Earnhardt throughout his career.  Dale shares the truth and what he had to deal with over the course of several years as he would suffer from concussions and the impact that these had on his career but the impact on his life in every way.  Writing can be therapeutic and while reading this, I believe writing this book was therapeutic for Dale and reading it will be for the fans as well.  This is a nice hardcover edition that it is a quick read and will have you smiling and remembering the good times watching him race and having a better understanding of the sacrifices and tolls that go along with this lifestyle.  

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