Ron Fellows and Boris Said are champion road racers and are often brought in by teams solely to compete in NASCAR's road course events.

Carburetors are still found in small engines and in older or specialized automobiles, such as those designed for stock car racing, though NASCAR's 2011 season was the last one with carbureted engines ; electronic fuel injection is used beginning with the 2012 race season.

Mike was featured as a Craftsman Truck Series driver, driving the # 2 ASE Dodge ( no specific car makes for the Trucks ; the real truck was a Dodge at the time ), Kenny was featured in the game driving the # 55 Square D Chevrolet ( although the game's commercial showed him driving the # 81 Square D Ford ) & Rusty was featured in the game driving his # 2 Ford, with the exception that the Miller Lite stickers are replaced by Penske Racing stickers similar to current Penske Championship Racing driver Brad Keselowski, whose sponsor is censored by NASCAR's ban on wireless telephone advertising.

Other sports organizations considered to be minor leagues are golf's Web. com Tour and Symetra Tour, respectively affiliated with the PGA Tour and LPGA ; NASCAR's Nationwide Series, Camping World Truck Series and Whelen All-American Series ; and various other affiliated satellite tours of other individual sports, including the Challengers Tour of Professional Tennis.

The pony cars are expected to make their way to NASCAR's premier Sprint Cup Series in the 2014 season.

Both current Sprint Cup Series races held at Bristol are for 500 laps ; the spring race ( historically a day race ; however, the 2006 race ended under nighttime conditions because Standard Time and the late afternoon start ) is sponsored by area grocery chain Food City, and considered one of NASCAR's top ten annual races.

Most Cup Series teams are involved in at least one of NASCAR's two other national series, either running vehicles in the junior series or affiliating with teams that run exclusively in those series:

In March 2010, GT Association ( the governing body in Super GT series in Japan ) reported the ITR are starting to unite the mechanical regulation with Japan's GT500 ( Super GT's upper class ), and NASCAR's Grand American Road Racing Association Grand Touring division to form a new Grand Touring specification.

The cars are former Roush Fenway Racing Fords and the team, which finished 22nd in 2009 and was sold to satisfy NASCAR's four cars per team rule, had exemptions for the first five races of 2010.

Drivers are now allowed to compete for the championship in only one of NASCAR's three national touring series in a given season.

" Ringers " are nowadays more likely to be found in the Nationwide Series, which uses NASCAR's traditional driver points system without a " Chase ", or in second-tier Cup teams.

Both firms are grandfathered under NASCAR's deal with Nextel.

Since the track's host city, Fontana, is located just outside Los Angeles, many fans flocked to the first race, and very quickly, the Los Angeles area became NASCAR's largest market.

Ironically, Lester won at the famed Virginia International Raceway, located close to the home of NASCAR's only African-American winner, Wendell Scott.

The most famous might well be Mario Andretti, who is the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500 ( 1969 ), NASCAR's Daytona 500 ( 1967 ), and the Formula One World Championship ( 1978 ).

Starting in 2007, FOX became the exclusive home of the Daytona 500 under the terms of NASCAR's new television package.

Two drivers, Mario Andretti and A. J. Foyt, have won the Indianapolis 500 and have also won NASCAR's premiere event, the Daytona 500.

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.

Waltrip started in NASCAR Winston Cup, NASCAR's top racing series at age 25, on May 7, 1972, at the 1972 Winston 500, at Talladega, Alabama, the series ' fastest and longest track, with a used Mercury Cyclone which was originally the 1967 Ford driven by Mario Andretti to victory in the 1967 Daytona 500.

On qualifying day, Davey signalled that he was in Winston Cup to stay when he qualified an unmarked, but Texaco-Havoline painted # 28 Thunderbird second for the 1987 Daytona 500, becoming the first rookie ever to start on the front row for NASCAR's most prestigious event.

He won five races, at Infineon, Daytona, New Hampshire, Watkins Glen and the Allstate 400 at his hometown track, a race that Stewart said he would give up his championship to win, and took with it the No. 1 seed heading into NASCAR's Chase for the Nextel Cup 10-race playoff.

The season opener, Daytona 500, is NASCAR's most prestigious single event.

It also pays NASCAR's second-highest purse ( second only to the Daytona 500 ).

Menard's win finished off a sweep of first-time winners at NASCAR's three oldest circuits that were one mile or longer, following Trevor Bayne and David Ragan at the Daytona races and Regan Smith at Darlington.

NASCAR's Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series have used restrictor plates at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway since 1988.

NASCAR's new Compact Car category debuted at the Daytona International Speedway on January 31, 1960.

The name is taken from Daytona Beach, Florida, which was an early center for auto racing and still hosts the Daytona 500, one of NASCAR's premier events.

Daytona hosts the Daytona 500, NASCAR's most prestigious race, while the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is home to the Indianapolis 500 and the Brickyard 400.

Drafting is most important at NASCAR's restrictor plate tracks, Talladega Superspeedway and Daytona International Speedway, where the plates mean that much less power is available to push the large bodies through the air.

During his career, Baker won nineteen races including the 1980 Daytona 500, NASCAR's most prestigious race.

As the 2009 season approached, Cope announced he would be involved on all three of NASCAR's circuits, as he would pilot the # 75 Cope / Keller Racing Dodge in the Sprint Cup series with BluFrog Energy Drink coming on board as a primary sponsor during Daytona Speedweeks.

More examples include the implementation of NASCAR's new Chase for the Cup points system, and Fight to the Top mode, where you control a custom driver throughout his career starting in the lower series and working up the ladder ( similar to NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona ).

Petty's car used for his 1979 Daytona 500 win, on display at Daytona USA ( museum ) | Daytona USA in January 2001From 1954 to 1979, Petty Enterprises won ten championships in NASCAR's premier series.

Kenyon's first championship was in NASCAR's Florida midget series in 1962, but he changed to USAC in the middle of the season and finished fifth in the USAC National Midget championship points.

Having only one driver, Matt Kenseth, and one primary sponsor, DeWalt, although occasionally displaying Arby's, USG Sheetrock, R + L Carriers, and Carhartt, the 17 car has been a consistent and successful team since entering NASCAR's premier series at a part-time level in 1999.

It was the first time the NASCAR's Most Popular Driver Award recipient was featured on the cover, although he did not win the award for the first time until the following year.

In addition to the Indianapolis 500, the speedway also hosts NASCAR's Brickyard 400.

He also began competing in some of NASCAR's lower divisions and in July 1985, car owner Hoss Ellington gave him his first chance to drive a Winston Cup car in the Talladega 500.

This also opened the way for NASCAR's purchase of CASCAR.

The Busch Series would continue to hold its season-ending races at Homestead ; in 2002 NASCAR's Winston Cup Series and Craftsman Truck Series would also hold their season-ending races at Homestead as well.

The early 1980s saw NASCAR's popularity increase, not only among fans, but also with sponsors.

He also ran the # 70 Chevrolet Impala SS for TRG Motorsports in NASCAR's top series late in the 2009 season.

He was eventually publicly defended by two of Earnhardt's drivers, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Michael Waltrip, and was also cleared of any wrongdoing by NASCAR's investigation into the accident.

In 1967, Baker switched to NASCAR's Grand American division, where he was also very successful.

In 2001 they returned to Indy with Vasser, Bruno Junqueira, Nicolas Minassian, and NASCAR's Tony Stewart, who would also compete in that evening's Coca-Cola 600.

Danville, Virginia driver Wendell Scott, the first African-American driver to compete at NASCAR's highest level, also raced in Modified Division events here.

Brasington, a land developer, also built NASCAR's first superspeedway, Darlington Speedway, in 1950.

He was a long-time driver in NASCAR's Winston West Series, and also is a Featherlite Southwest Tour Champion.

He also won five championships in NASCAR's Goody's Dash series.

Michael also became the 22nd driver to win in all of NASCAR's top 3 divisions ( he also has 11 Nationwide wins and 4 Sprint Cup wins ).