Where did the idea of NASCAR come from?

Where did the idea of NASCAR come from?

Stock car racing in the United States has its origins in bootlegging during Prohibition, when drivers ran bootleg whiskey made primarily in the Appalachian region of the United States. Bootleggers needed to distribute their illicit products, and they typically used small, fast vehicles to better evade the police.

What was NASCAR called before it was called NASCAR?

The series began in 1949 as the Strictly Stock Division, and from 1950 to 1970 it was known as the Grand National Division. In 1971, when the series began leasing its naming rights to the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, it was referred to as the NASCAR Winston Cup Series (1971–2003).

Where was the very first NASCAR race held?

The First NASCAR Race The first NASCAR event was held on February 15, 1948, at the beach-road course in Daytona, which was a Modified division race. While this was the first year that an event by the company took place, most people associate 1949 as the year that the racing world changed forever.

Where did stock car racing get its start?

Organized stock-car racing began at Langhorne, Pennsylvania, in 1939. The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), founded in 1947 at Daytona Beach, Florida, gave the sport its first formal organization.

Where did NC NASCAR start?

Charlotte Speedway
NASCAR held its first Strictly Stock race on June 19, 1949, at the Charlotte Speedway in North Carolina.

Was NASCAR started by moonshiners?

Carl D. “Lightening” Lloyd Seay, was born in Georgia on December 14, 1919, just more than a month before Prohibition started. As a teenager in the post-Prohibition 1930s, he used fast cars to run (untaxed) illegal moonshine from stills on backcountry roads in Georgia. Seay started racing stock cars at age 19.

When did NASCAR stop using factory cars?

Buz McKim: For the most part, stock bodies and frames were used in NASCAR until the 1967 Ford Fairlane, which was a unibody car.

When was NASCAR started?

February 21, 1948, Daytona Beach, Florida, United States
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