• The publication coincides with the 2011 Daytona 500, the 10-year anniversary of Earnhardt’s death and the race after which Waltrip will retire.
• A charming and hilarious television personality, Waltrip has appeared on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel, and Fox News and is ever-present on NASCAR-specific programming from Showtime to the SPEED Channel.
• Previous books by members of Earnhardt’s inner circle have been bestsellers (Dale Earnhardt, Jr.’s Driver #8 and DW by Darrell Waltrip).

The final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500, the Super Bowl of NASCAR, is drawing to a close.  Waltrip is in the lead, with Dale Earnhardt in second and darting back and forth across the track blocking the path of Michael’s challengers.  In 462 attempts over the course of more than a decade of racing, Waltrip has never won. Until now.  But he never imagined his greatest triumph would accompany one of the greatest tragedies of American sports.  Just moments after he crossed the finish line, nearly one year to the day after his father passed, Michael would lose a dear friend and mentor as Dale Earnhardt died in a terrible crash.

In the Blink of an Eye details that fateful day as Michael shares his part of the story for the first time, and it also presents a rich and engaging memoir of one of the beloved personalities in NASCAR.  With a hardscrabble upbringing in Kentucky, a strained relationship with his racing superstar brother Darrell, and huge peaks and deep valleys, both personal and professional, Waltrip’s story is the stuff of great fiction and will find a huge and adoring audience.