Jeff Gordon: The Sport Of Stock Car Driver

NASCAR community is made up of sports personalities. The community values sports and champions sporting activities with the aim of fostering peace and unity (Batchelor 226). They have always achieved significant gains with the sporting initiatives concerning the transformation of the way of life of the southern people including other parts of the nation. Likewise, NASCAR is a sporting community that coordinates multiple auto-racing sporting events. The community started its activities in 1948, and the brain behind its formation is known as Bill France. It was formed to spearhead motorsports stock-car racing that is highly prominent. The community’s objective was to foster cultural practices, provide a

Before the mid-1970s, NASCAR was never televised live. In 1979, the Daytona 500 became the first NASCAR event televised in its entirety. Since then, television has become the main branding medium for NASCAR, and it appears to be working well.

NASCAR is one of the most rapidly growing sports in the world. There are people who think that NASCAR is just a bunch of hicks going around in circles, but it takes skill to drive at two-hundred miles per hour. I am going to talk about the history of NASCAR, early drivers of NASCAR, the three NASCAR divisions, the rules, and the new technology.

“I had never even heard of Dale Earnhardt until he crashed into eternity, but now here I am writing a column about him” (King, 64). This reaction, recorded by Florence King in National Review, seems to be a common one since Earnhardt’s death in the Daytona 500. Dale Earnhardt was a driver in the Winston Cup circuit for the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR). Despite the fact that he is arguably the most popular NASCAR driver, many people did not know who he was until he died. It is sad to realize that sometimes it takes death to become recognized. However, Dale is not the only NASCAR driver who is becoming known from his death. In a span of nine months, Tony Roper, Adam Petty,

Richard Petty’s sponsors are Sprint Cup Series, Xfinity Series and, STP. As I look at his Genre of sponsorship is see a continuous pattern big spenders and well known companies which means Richard makes them look good. I also feel strongly that he has these certain sponsorships because he is known to be the racer ever to race. Richard has a winning mentality he has won the NASCAR championship a total of seven times and He was also honored the Medal Of Freedom from President Bush. I think Richard has achieved the highest awards that this with him be inducted into the Hall Of Fame.

After retiring from chicken farming Shelby became an excellent racer. In 1952 during January Shelby drove his first race. Shelby started with a drag raced of a quarter mile in a hot rod. In 1952 he also drove his first road race. “Carroll Shelby drove a British MG, this car was considered very underpowered. Shelby beat everyone in his car’s class and even the jaguar XK120

Modern day NASCAR hasn’t really differed that much. It is said the best NASCAR driver today is Jeff Gordon. Jeff Gordon was born on august the 4 1971 in Vallejo, California. Gordon started driving when he was five years old. Preforming laps on a makeshift track. Gordon won rookie of the year in 1991 in NASCAR. He was the first race car driver to win $100 million dollars in cup winnings in 2011. He placed third on NASCAR all-time win list. The next driver is debatable the best NASCAR driver today. His name is Dale Earnhardt Jr. his dad was dale Earnhardt the “intimidator”. Dale was born October 10, 1974 in concord North Carolina. Nick named junior dale is a party and fun to be around kind of guy. And on the track he is all business. Junior shows he can

The Bristol Motor Speedway has earned a reputation as the world’s farthest Half-Mile. Darrell Waltrip, a resident of Tennessee, is Bristol’s most successful racer of all time. Through 2010, Waltrip had won at the Bristol Motor Speedway a record 12 times. (av2books)

Dale's first break in to racing was in 1975 when he drove in his first Winston cup race, coming in at 22nd. For Dale, unlike many other drivers, driving was not a hobby, it was almost his only means of support. If he was short of money, he borrowed from other drivers, hoping that he would win the next Sunday's race so he could pay them back on Monday. Dale was a fearless driver, but he was also astonishingly precise. Dale's first major break was in 1978, when he replaced another driver in the world cup 600, in Charlotte N.C. where he placed 7th one race, that is when he caught the eye of a Winston cup car owner. That owners name was Rod Osterlund and wasn't happy with his current driver. Rod replaced his current driver with Dale for the next-to-last race of that season, and Dale drove with his characteristic fearlessness, refusing to be intimidated by the experienced drivers he was competing against. This won him a full-time position driving for Osterlund, and in only his 16th start, he had his first win. By 1979, Earnhardt was named

First of all, Nascar is more electrifying because, it involves more than two cars. Other than Drag racing having two cars, Nascar has about thirty racecars or more! When a lot of cars are out at once, it can have the most prospects of wrecks. Every racecar driver can go all at once, than wait until one’s turn as in Drag racing does.

Davey Allison was a very talented NASCAR driver. He was a second generation Alabama racer, and was known to be a part of the “Alabama Gang”. Allison was a very skilled driver; and he had changed the game in father-son competition, often going head-to-head against his father for the win on multiple occasions.

Flash forward to 2017 at this past Sunday's Daytona 500. Bill Elliott's son Chase Elliott leads a very small and beleaguered field with 20 laps remaining. Unlike in his father's pre-restrictor plate hay day, the younger Elliott can not pull away, but he maintains his advantage until his car exhausts the last precious drops of gasoline from its fuel tank. With only three laps left, Elliott's race was

Chad Brown is a famous horseback racer who was born right here in Mechanicville. He has broken many records, especially at the Saratoga Racetrack located about a half hour from Mechanicville. Chad Brown did an interview with wten back when he scored his 1,000th win. According to (news10.com) when asked about his most recent win which was his 1,000th he said  "I’d have to go with the 1,000th win because this is all where it came about for me,” he said. “Right here in the picnic area at Saratoga, that’s where horse racing first captured me and changed my whole life; my outlook on life and what I wanted to do with my life. From that point forward it’s been a way of life and not just a job. For me to reach this success with my team right here at my home track at the very place that changed my career ambitions it’s just a dream come

to Daytona Beach in 1935 to escape the harsh affects of the Great Depression. He formed the idea that people would enjoy to watch unmodified cars race. He put his plan into action and soon he had many race enthusiasts to come watch these dangerous high-speed races. Daytona Beach became known as the place to set land speed records. The beach was filled with racecar fans from across the globe. Fifteen records were set at the beach between 1905 and 1935. In 1936 the course began hosting racing events. Drivers raced a 1.5 to a 2-mile stretch of beach as a straightaway, and beachfront highway A1A as the other. But untrustworthy promoters would leave events with all the money before drivers were paid frequently victimizing drivers. So in 1947, he decided that racing would not grow until a formal sanctioning organization was formed, there were standardized rules, and there was a regular schedule and an organized championship. On December 14, 1947 France began to talk with other influential racers and promoters at the Streamline Hotel at Daytona Beach, Florida that concluded with the formation of NASCAR on February 21, 1948. With the help several other drivers of that time, its points system and rules were written on a bathroom napkin. The sanctioning body hosted their first event at the Daytona Beach on February 15, 1948. Red Byron beat Marshall Teague in the Modified division race. The first NASCAR "Strictly Stock" race ever was held at Charlotte

Drivers must have a very strong neck to hold their helmet up while pulling multiple G forces on their bodies for hours (Metcalf, Robert). Brute strength is probably not as important as cardio workouts when it comes to race car drivers. Drivers are not trained as intensely as some other professional athletes, but they should be in shape if they want to be successful.