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.

* Winston Million, also called the Grand Slam, a cash prize award program on the NASCAR Winston Cup series

For NASCAR Grand National winners at Daytona from 1949 – 1958, see Daytona Beach & Road Course. Mario Andretti, born in Italy, is the only driver to win the race not from the United States.

However, the network was eventually sold to News Corporation, which made it NASCAR-centric, and has since replaced the sports car related programming with either NASCAR programming ( in 2009, NASCAR purchased the Grand American Road Racing Association, which is an independent subsidiary ) or reality shows.

Due to Grand Am's affiliation with NASCAR, many NASCAR drivers occasionally participate in the Rolex Sports Car Series.

Speed, having a partnership with NASCAR, still has exclusive rights to the NASCAR-owned Grand Am series.

* Jim Murray ( NASCAR driver ), a former NASCAR Grand National series driver

Dave Blaney drove a NASCAR Winston Cup # 93 Pontiac Grand Prix under Amoco sponsorship from 1997 until the brand's demise in 2001.

* Dan Gurney, first race-car driver to win in four major categories of motorsports: Grand Prix, Indy Car, NASCAR and Sports Car

It has hosted nearly every type of road racing, from the Formula One United States Grand Prix ( 1961 – 1980 ), to one of the few races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series not conducted on an oval speedway.

Opened in 2006, Miller Motorsports Park hosts many of the world ’ s most significant racing series, including the American Le Mans Series, Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, NASCAR Grand National West Series, AMA Superbike and Supersport Championship and, new for 2008, the FIM Superbike World Championship, one of the top three racing series in the world.

* Ronnie Thomas, 1978 NASCAR Rookie of the Year and his father Jabe Thomas, also a NASCAR Grand National driver.

The series was previously called the NASCAR Busch Series and the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series.

WCW also had a presence in NASCAR from the mid-1990s to 2000, sponsoring the # 29 team in the Busch Grand National Series full-time and the # 9 Melling Racing team in the Winston Cup Series part-time.

** January 19 – death of Joe Weatherly, NASCAR Grand National champion, in a crash at Riverside.

On July 6, 2011 at a press conference held at the start-finish line, officials with the speedway, NASCAR, and the Grand American Road Racing Association announced the new Super Weekend at the Brickyard taking place July 26 – 29, 2012.

The article continued: " Walt Woron of Motor Trend enjoyed the ' quick-flowing power ... that pins you to your seat and keeps you there until you release your foot from the throttle [...] Olds dominated the performance landscape in 1950, including wins in the NASCAR Grand National division, Daytona Speed Weeks, and the 2100-plus-mile Carrera Panamericana.

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He also made four NASCAR Grand National ( now Sprint Cup Series ) starts from 1969 to 1977 with a best finish of second in 1970 at Riverside International Raceway.

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing ( NASCAR ) is a family-owned and-operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events.

NASCAR is second only to the National Football League amongst professional sports franchises in terms of television ratings in the United States.

Normally used an entry level formula, it has grown into a stand alone series, with National, State and Club events and Championships. The first NASCAR " Strictly Stock " race ever was held at Charlotte Speedway, on June 19, 1949. Where a racing class requires that the cars raced be production vehicles only slightly adapted for racing, manufacturers typically produce a limited run of such vehicles for public sale so that they can legitimately race them in the class.

With a sports division now established with the arrival of the NFL, Fox acquired over-air broadcast rights to the National Hockey League ( 1994 – 99 ), Major League Baseball ( since 1996 ), and NASCAR auto racing ( since 2001 ).

The North Wilkesboro Speedway was the first NASCAR ( National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing ) track ; it held its first race on May 18, 1947 As noted above, Wilkes County native and resident Junior Johnson was one of the early superstars of NASCAR, as well as a legendary moonshiner.

The NASCAR Nationwide Series is a stock car racing series owned and operated by the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing.

Shortly after starring in National Lampoon Christmas Vacation, Randy Quaid was also featured in Days of Thunder as comical NASCAR car owner and successful car salesman Tim Dailand, a determined businessman who expects his team to be top-notch for fans and sponsors.

In addition to NASCAR's top racing series, he has won 13 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series races, 7 American Speed Association ( ASA ) races, 3 IROC races, 2 Automobile Racing Club of America ( ARCA ) races, 2 NASCAR All-American Challenge Series events, 2 All Pro Racing Association races, a USAC race, and has competed in the 24 Hours of Daytona, a 24-hour sports car endurance 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 ).

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

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.

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* 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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