In the 1987 season, Earnhardt earned his nickname " The Intimidator " after spinning out Elliott in the final segment of " The Winston ", a non-points event now known as the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.

It is generally believed that current NASCAR owners have agreed never to use the No. 3 in Sprint Cup competition again, although this is not official NASCAR policy.

* 2001 – Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident during the Daytona 500.

The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series, and the Camping World Truck Series.

NASCAR is the world's largest governing body for stock car racing, and its Sprint Cup Series ( named for its sponsor, Sprint Nextel Corporation ) is the de facto premier series of stock car racing.

For example, NASCAR Sprint cup series now requires fuel injection.

The most prominent championship in stock car racing is the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, named after its sponsor Sprint Nextel.

The Daytona 500 is a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series motor race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Most NASCAR Sprint Cup and IndyCar events are held on Sundays.

Villeneuve racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in early 2008. In a subsequent interview with Autosport magazine, Villeneuve's manager Craig Pollock confirmed that Villeneuve's Formula One career was over It was announced on August 24, 2007 that Villeneuve would run the remaining seven races in the Craftsman Truck Series driving a Toyota Tundra for Bill Davis Racing and undertake a full-time Sprint Cup schedule in 2008.

With no sponsor for the NASCAR Sprint Cup series.

After racing both NASCAR Sprint Cup and Speedcar Series, Villeneuve was invited by the Top Race V6 chairman Alejandro Urtubey to join the series in its major event of the 2008 season, called La Carrera del Año ( The Race of the Year ), held at the Buenos Aires circuit.

At the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Sharpie 500, held at Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tennessee on August 23, 2008, 168, 000 people performed the wave to set a new Guinness World Record.

* Kevin Conway, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver

The western part of the county is home to a large racing complex in Concord, including Charlotte Motor Speedway, which hosts three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events a year, The Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and zMAX Dragway, which now hosts the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series twice a year.

Ragan presently drives the # 6 UPS Ford car in the Sprint Cup NASCAR circuit for Jack Roush's Roush-Fenway Racing team.

NASCAR insiders expect to see Mustang racing in NASCAR Sprint Cup by 2014 ( the model's 50th anniversary ).

Loudon is home to the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, which in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is home to the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 and the Sylvania 300, in the NASCAR Nationwide Series the New England 200, in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series the Sylvania 150, and is also home to the Loudon Classic, America's Oldest Motorcycle Race.

The difference can be heard as the flat-plane crankshafts result in the engine having a smoother, higher-pitched sound than cross-plane ( for example, IRL IndyCar Series compared to NASCAR Nextel Cup, or a Ferrari 355 compared to a Chevrolet Corvette ).

To this day, Earnhardt is the only driver in NASCAR Winston Cup history to follow a Rookie of the Year title with a NASCAR Winston Cup Championship the next season.

He was the third driver in NASCAR history to win both the Rookie of the Year and Cup Series championship in his career, joining David Pearson and Richard Petty.

Dale's 1994 NASCAR Winston Cup Series | 1994 racecar

Fans began honoring Earnhardt by holding three fingers aloft on the third lap of every NASCAR Cup race, and the television coverage of NASCAR on Fox and NASCAR on NBC went silent for each third lap from Rockingham to the following year's race there in honor of Earnhardt For the first three weeks after Earnhardt's death, on-track incidents brought out the caution flag on lap three.

Park won the very next NASCAR Winston Cup race: The Dura Lube 400 at North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham, NC held on February 26, 2001.

Category: NASCAR Cup Series champions

Celebrity hearse enthusiasts include rock singer Neil Young and two-time NASCAR Nextel Cup Champion Tony Stewart, who had his hearse customised for a television show.

Richard Lee Petty ( born July 2, 1937 ) is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock / Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series.

** NASCAR postponed the September 16 Winston Cup New Hampshire 300 race at Loudon until November 23.

In addition, R. J. Reynolds ( the tobacco conglomerate ) took over as the major sponsor of NASCAR racing ( changing the name to the " Winston Cup ") and they made a significantly larger financial contribution than previous sponsors.

* George Parrish, retired American NASCAR Cup Series driver

* July 3 – Richard Petty, seven-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion

A common misconception is that Richard Childress Racing " owns the rights " to the No. 3 in NASCAR competition ( fueled by the fact that Kevin Harvick's car has a little No. 3 as an homage to Earnhardt and the usage of the No. 3 on the Camping World Series truck of Ty Dillon ), but in fact no team owns the rights to this or any other number: However, according to established NASCAR procedures, RCR would have priority over other teams if and when the time came to reuse the number.

It also oversees NASCAR Local Racing, the Whelen Modified Tour, the Whelen All-American Series, and the NASCAR iRacing. com Series.

Split screens are frequently used in motor racing, especially during safety car pit stops in the IndyCar Series and NASCAR, where four way splits are used, most often with three leading cars or trucks ' pit stops shown on the left and a shot of the pit exit ( where restart order is determined after pit stops ) on the right, with some featuring just four different cars or trucks making pit stops.

The national touring series, the NASCAR Late Model Sportsman Division, originated from local late model races in the east coast of the U. S. This division became the Busch Series and then the Nationwide Series.

NASCAR also operates the Nationwide Series, a stock car junior league, and the Camping World Truck Series, a junior league where pickup trucks are raced.

The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series enjoys generally strong car-counts using the base of the sport in Canada ( the short-oval region of Southern Ontario ).

* CASCAR Super Series 1981 – 2006 ; now NASCAR Canadian Tire Series

NASCAR feared that these increasing speeds significantly surpassed the abilities of the tire technology of the day, and it would undoubtedly increase the number of gruesome wrecks that were occurring.

Besides NASCAR, there are a number of other national or regional stock-car sanctioning bodies in the United States.

For 2011 Villeneuve agreed to take over for Brad Keselowski in the number 22 car for Penske Racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series for two races which Keselowski could not attend.

Opinions varied on his motivations, with his supporters sharing his disapproval of the race's lack of status within CART, the increasing number of foreign drivers ( as American drivers were gravitating towards NASCAR ), and the decreasing number of ovals in the season series.

* The number of a car in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. run by Roush Fenway Racing and its predecessor, Roush Racing, from 1992 – 2000 and 2002 – present.

* The number of a car in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series owned by Roush Fenway Racing since 1999, Matt Kenseth has driven the car since its debut in 1999 until 2012.

* In the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 19 is the number of a car owned by Richard Petty Motorsports, a Ford Fusion with Best Buy as its primary sponsor, and driven by Elliott Sadler.

Due to NASCAR changing the homologation rules which increased the minimum number of cars produced for the public from 500 to 3, 000 for a vehicle to qualify at NASCAR, the King Cobra project was abandoned by Ford.

* The car number most associated with former NASCAR team owner Junie Donlavey

* The number of a car formerly run in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series by Yates Racing.

Popular driver Gilles Villeneuve used the number on his final days in F1 and later was adopted by his son, Formula One World Champion Jacques Villeneuve, in his NASCAR debut.

* 88 is the number of a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series car owned by Hendrick Motorsports.

* The car number of former NASCAR driver Johnny Beauchamp.

* The best-known car number of retired NASCAR driver Phil Barkdoll.

* 48 is the number of a NASCAR car owned by Hendrick Motorsports.

* For over twenty years, 52 was the best-known car number of retired NASCAR driver Jimmy Means

* For years car number 54 was NASCAR driver Lennie Pond.