I read Driving With the Devil a few years back. It goes over NASCAR's start and going from racing stocks to the evolution of late models.
I highly recommend it for any motorsports fan.
That my mom and her sisters used to count the money / gains from the numbers game that my uncle, a moonshine runner and coincidentally the first team owner in NASCAR, used to run.
Here's the book about my uncle, Raymond Parks, "Driving With The Devil"
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400082269/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_DYAB10DCP1TN5PQZBB6Y
Driving With the Devil and He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back were both really great.