Nascar History

Summary: Ricky Bobby, one of NASCAR’s most popular drivers of his time, is a dominating success on the track. Starting as a pit crew member, Ricky jumps into the driver seat after their driver quits mid-race. Although he started third, Ricky eventually ends up third in the race, kick starting his future NASCAR career. After Dennit Racing introduces another driver (Jean Girard) alongside Ricky Bobby and Cal Naughton Jr., Ricky becomes less successful as the season goes on. After flipping his car in Charlotte, Ricky vanishes from NASCAR as he is unable to cope with not being the greatest driver on the

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.

In its beginnings, the word “Stock” in “Stockcar” was literal. It meant that the racecar was the car that you drove on the street. Lee Petty and his son Richard drove to the first Winston Cup race (1949)

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

Dale Earnhardt grew up in automotive racing. Ever since he was a kid that is what his family did, and now his family carries on that legacy.

The intricacies that are involved in turning a regular car into a “Street Racer” are many; and racers pour their souls into these magnificent machines. After seeing “the Fast and the Furious” many people have or wanted to become involved in street racing. They do not realize that this is a sport that takes knowledge, hard work, and nerve. Many of these racers have spent their lives under a car, learning the trade and improving upon it. As I have learned, this is not just a hobby; it is a way of life.

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.

NASCAR should have been meeting sponsors from other countries in addition to racing in other nations while the economy was in a downward spin in the United States. Sponsorship is the blood of NASCAR racing (Pruitt, Cornwell, & Clark, 2004). Sponsorship accounts for 50% of NASCARS revenue. With the stakes being high NASCAR might want to diversify its drivers to generate other ethic fans. NASCAR has been criticized for mostly having white Caucasian men on their payroll. The large majority of its sponsors are American companies such as FedEx or Gillette. Other marketing promoters have not being proceived from other countries. Not to mention the France family should allow more

You're driving down the straight stretch at 200 mph, slowing down for one of the three left hand turns; you’re surrounded by other cars all doing the same things, all trying to achieve the same goal: to be the first racer to cross the checkered line. The sport, is called NASCAR, it attracts hundreds of thousands of people to watch each and every race. NASCAR was started by back country bootleggers in Georgia; in late 1947, a meeting was held to discuss the future of stock car racing, and NASCAR was conceived. It takes extreme skill to race in the NASCAR world; it is a crazy fast paced sport that has an incredible, humble beginning.

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

There are forty-five drivers on the NASCAR Nextel Cup; every single one of them is white. There has never been a person of color to drive a racecar in the Winston Cup or the Nextel Cup. That's about to change, or some hope it does. NASCAR'S chief operating official George Pyne has teamed up with Magic Johnson and started a program to help encourage minorities to try to race. There is one black driver on the NASCAR truck series and a couple in smaller race series down south, but to this day none are on the Nextel Cup series.

Dale started his racing career at the age of 15. He just raced at the local tracks competing with his dad. Dale quit school to pursue his racing career and work as a mechanic just like his father. Dale’s father did at the race track of a heart attack while working on his race car in 1973. Two years after his father’s death he made his first pro NASCAR start finishing 22nd in the World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. In 1978, Earnhardt's racing caught the attention of Rod Osterlund, a racing sponsor based in California. Earnhardt was signed to his first full-time Winston Cup contract as Osterlund's only sponsored driver in 1979. In his rookie year Earnhardt racked up his first win on the NASCAR circuit at the Southeastern 500 in Bristol, Tennessee. He became the first driver to earn more than $200, 000 in his rookie season. He was honored with the rookie of the year award. In only his second NASCAR season he scored his first championship by barley edging out veteran driver Cale Yarborough. Dale became the first driver in NASCAR history to win rookie of the year and the championship back to

The United States Auto Club (USAC) began in the 1950s; however, because of promotion concerns, many team owners left in search of other league opportunities; and it was at this time in 1978, Championship Automobile Racing Teams began. This type of racing was the forum for open-wheel racing in the United States and for 17 years led open-wheel racing. Anton H. “Tony” George, owner of the Indianapolis 500 believed CART was focusing too much on foreign popularity versus the United States; therefore, the creation of the open-wheel league in 1996 called the Indy Racing League (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). The Indianapolis Racing League would hold an event once a year and teams had to choose which league they would be a part of because you could only

Formula one is the fastest racing car in the world. It is called the greatest car show in the world. Formula one has a great influence on the people. Millions of people sit in front of the TV set or around the circuit and watch the race. The drivers are often called kings of speed and they show their ability to drive fast every second week of the season.