| Hey Racing Fans!! Are your engines revving? Can't | | | | back the same way he came to avoid a road block. |
| wait till the next NASCAR race? Have you ever | | | | NASCAR roots are primarily in the southern states. |
| wondered where and when this addicting sport got | | | | NASCAR is short for National Association for Stock |
| it's start? It unofficially got started when deep in the | | | | Car Auto Racing. William France formed NASCAR in |
| back woods, farmers around the depression era | | | | 1948. The first official race was held on February 15, |
| made moonshine to earn money to support their | | | | 1948 at Daytona Beach, Florida and began to grow in |
| families. Money for the bare necessities was hard to | | | | popularity from there. Then in 1970 ABC began to |
| come by. They learned to outrun the law by making | | | | televise racing segments on Wide World of Sports. |
| their cars faster than what the lawmen had. One | | | | (I'm dating myself, but I remember when they |
| famous moonshine runner is Junior Johnson from | | | | started doing that! Even as a kid I had speed in my |
| Ingle Hollow, he was never caught while running | | | | blood!) |
| moonshine (though I bet a lot of them didn't get | | | | Now NASCAR is the fastest growing spectator sport |
| caught!). | | | | in America. Avid fans follow each race closely rooting |
| North Carolina is credited with creating the "Bootleg | | | | for their favorite driver and watching their points |
| Turn" in which the driver puts the car in second gear | | | | standing in the race. All I can say is... |
| and doing a fast 180 degree turn around, and go | | | | |