Although the track closed in 2004, it is still featured in the EA Sports video games NASCAR SimRacing, NASCAR 06: Total Team Control, NASCAR 07, NASCAR 08 ( PS2 ), and NASCAR 09 ( PS2 ) which are based on the 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 NASCAR seasons respectively.

In 2006, Kluever was slated to race in six NASCAR Nextel Cup events in the No. 06 car during the season in preparation for a full season in 2007.

# redirect NASCAR 06: Total Team Control

NASCAR 06: Total Team Control is the ninth installment of the EA Sports ' NASCAR video game series.

The rest of the game retains the modes and features brought into the series by NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup, making NASCAR 06 very similar to its predecessor.

While a large number of real drivers are present in the NEXTEL Cup Series, National Series ( Busch Series ), and Craftsman Truck Series in NASCAR 06: Total Team Control, fantasy drivers are still present, sponsored by fictional or unused sponsors.

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

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.

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 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.

Until the advent of the Trans-Am series in 1967, NASCAR homologation cars were the closest thing that the public could buy that was actually very similar to the cars that were winning the national races.

NASCAR responded in a way that they hoped would make the cars safer and more equal, so the race series would be more a test of the drivers, rather than a test of car technology.

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

In the early days of NASCAR, stock cars were in fact built from production cars, whereas some current touring car series are also raced in silhouette racing cars.

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

For 2012, GT3 cars will be allowed, with spec wings and splitters, as long as they pass a test at the NASCAR Research and Development Center in Concord, North Carolina, thus allowing GT3 cars to run with few modifications relative to other series ( NASCAR, the parent company of Grand-Am, does not permit anti-lock brakes or traction control to be used on Grand-Am GT cars ).

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

Outside Formula One, Villeneuve has taken on several new careers: in sportscar racing, racing for Peugeot in the 2007 and 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans, jumping to NASCAR in August 2007 and racing as an invited driver in the Argentinian Top Race V6 series and the Australian based International V8 Supercars Championship.

With no sponsor for the NASCAR Sprint Cup series.

The series is composed of road courses and stockcars similar to NASCAR and Villeneuve said " On a personal level, Speedcar will give me more road racing experience with this kind of cars which will be useful in future NASCAR road course events and it's also a great excuse to meet race fans.

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.

Unlike other racing series, the NASCAR vehicles are not based on production Mustangs, but are a silhouette racing car with decals that give them a superficial resemblance to the production road cars.

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.

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

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

In 1994, William Grimes noted in the New York Times that RAA only took on non-profit commissions, however their position has changed in recent years as the firm has completed some corporate work, including the NASCAR Hall of Fame and the Corning Museum of Glass.

However, in recent years ESPN2 has broadcast increasingly more mainstream sporting events, including Major League Baseball games, the East-West Shrine Game, much of the 2006 World Baseball Classic, many Major League Soccer and NCAA basketball games, the WNBA, the Arena Football League, and NASCAR Nationwide Series races on Saturday afternoons.

In recent years, new additions to NASCAR schedules have tended to be oval tracks.

In recent years, there has been a gradual push away from short track venues for Sprint Cup ( the highest level of NASCAR ) in favor of longer tracks.

In recent years, the Auto Club has returned to its roots with involvement in auto racing, sponsoring the annual Auto Club 400 NASCAR race ( Fontana ) and NHRA Auto Club Finals ( Pomona ).

In recent years, the Cheerios logo has been featured as a sponsor logo on NASCAR race vehicles.

Like its Inside Cup counterpart, which focused on the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series, the show focused primarily the NASCAR Busch Series, and, like Inside Cup, was hosted by Allen Bestwick, and used a 3-driver expert panel to analyze news and recent Busch Series action.

He also had his most recent top-ten finish in NASCAR competition that season, finishing 10th in a Busch Series race at North Carolina for Xpress Motorsports.

The only recent international races for NASCAR had been those at the Suzuka Circuit and Twin Ring Motegi ( 1996 – 1998 ) in Japan, but the races were non-points-paying exhibition races.

NASCAR's recent testing ban on active national and regional series tracks may make the D-shaped oval popular for testing, as it is close enough for NASCAR teams to use as a testing venue as none of the four series in question race there.

As part of the most recent round of realignment in NASCAR Auto Club Speedway, Talladega Superspeedway, and Atlanta Motor Speedway agreed to switch dates, with the Atlanta race moving from its traditional fall date to Labor Day weekend and becoming known as the Labor Day Classic 500.

Prior to its most recent rescheduling the fall Atlanta race was always run during the final stages of the NASCAR season, in either October or November, and was one of the ten races in the Chase from its inauguration in 2004 until 2008.

The falling popularity of open wheel racing in America has further devalued the event in recent times with NASCAR dominating the U. S. racing scene to the point where the growing influence of support category V8 Supercar removed Champ Car from top billing of the event into an equal top billing not seen at any other Champ Car event.

Banks most recent work was as host on some editions on NASCAR Now on ESPN2.

* Because of this, full-time drivers have been forced to become more proficient on road courses, which in turn means that the average NASCAR driver today is a much better road course driver than in the recent past.

The advertising and sale of ring tones in particular has seen a massive growth in recent years, with some commercial breaks, particularly on music television channels and in motor racing ( especially NASCAR, with Sprint Nextel as the series sponsor ), being dominated by such adverts.