Anheuser-Busch has sponsored the CART championship, and top NASCAR teams such as Junior Johnson, Hendrick Motorsports and DEI.

He has been inducted into numerous halls of fame, including the inaugural class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Hours later, Mike Helton, president of NASCAR announced the officials, drivers and fans that Earnhardt has died from the accident.

Childress, who currently holds the rights from NASCAR to the No. 3, has placed a moratorium on using it.

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.

NASCAR has presented exhibition races at the Suzuka and Motegi circuits in Japan, Mexico, and Calder Park Raceway in Australia.

NASCAR has 75 million fans who purchase over $ 3 billion annually in licensed products.

Fortune 500 companies sponsor NASCAR more than any other motor sport, although this has been in decline since the early 2000s.

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.

In Australia there was a formula that was quite similar to NASCAR, but it has now closed down, and a form of touring cars has taken its place.

1972 brought so many rule changes, it has prompted many to consider this year as the start of the modern era of NASCAR racing.

Stock car racing in the NASCAR mould ( AUSCAR ) had a following in Australia but that has now passed.

He has, since the demise of the Champ Car World Series, raced in IndyCar and NASCAR.

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.

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

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.

Recently, Dooly County has enjoyed some measure of fame due to the success of NASCAR driver David Ragan, who originally hails from Unadilla.

Hampton has a race track for NASCAR called the " Atlanta Motor Speedway ".

Cartwright has shown an interest in stock car racing and as of 2007 was seeking a NASCAR license.

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.

Mooresville is best known as the home of many NASCAR racing teams and drivers, as well as racing technology suppliers, which has earned the city the nickname " Race City USA.

The allegations of seatbelt failure resulted in Bill Simpson's resignation from the company bearing his name, which manufactured the seatbelts used in Earnhardt's car and nearly every other NASCAR driver's car.

NASCAR also made the use of the HANS device mandatory in all cars following Earnhardt's death.

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.

Also, it is Waltrip's tear-filled voice that can be heard saying " I just hope Dale's okay ," during the film's depiction of Earnhardt's fatal crash at Daytona due to the use of NASCAR on Fox's original footage and commentary, which is now owned by NASCAR Images ( starting in 2001, NASCAR Images owns all NASCAR race footage ; they also own the footage of the former Sunbelt Video ).

On March 11, 2001 at the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 500, only three weeks after Earnhardt's death, Harvick won his first career Winston Cup victory in just his third start by narrowly edging Jeff Gordon at Atlanta Motor Speedway, reinvigorating not only his team, the fans, but NASCAR as well.

In the first edition of this book, Coulter alleged that The New York Times did not cover NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt's death until two days after he died:

On 29 April 2010, at the time of Earnhardt's induction to the NASCAR Hall of Fame, DEI announced a partnership with JR Motorsports, Richard Childress Racing, and Wrangler Jeans where, for one race, as a tribute to his father, Dale Earnhardt Jr. would drive the # 3, the blue and gold race car driven by Dale Earnhardt in the 1980s.

Although Earnhardt was not the first NASCAR driver to die in a wreck, he was arguably more famous than many other drivers that have died.

* During the Daytona 500 race, NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, known as " The Intimidator " for his aggressive driving style, is killed in a crash, and a 18 car wreck happened on lap 173 when Tony Stewart flipped in mid-air causing a major wreck.

In the 2008 Sharpie 500, an irate Clint Bowyer, who was involved in a wreck involving Waltrip, said " Michael Waltrip is the worst driver in NASCAR period!

After the race Said claimed that he was not mad at Ambrose, but wanted to apologize to ( Ambrose's ) crew chief because it was going to " cost him a car ," implying that Said will wreck Ambrose intentionally next time they find themselves on a NASCAR track together.

In the 2001 NASCAR Winston Cup season, he had only 1 top-ten and suffered severe injuries in a wreck at Chicagoland Speedway after cutting a right-front tire and crashing head-first in Turn 1, blacking out for 30 + seconds.

She also made her NASCAR debut that season at Richmond International Raceway driving the # 6 Country Crock Dodge for Evernham in the Busch Series, starting 42nd and finishing 39th after a wreck.

" are memorable to many NASCAR fans.

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

The county hosts the longest running beach music festival on the East coast, is home to the legendary NASCAR team the Wood Brothers, and many more attractions each year provide a wide range of activities for every group of every age.

It is a major hub of NASCAR racing, with many race shops located in the county ( mostly around Mooresville ).

* The Waterford Speedbowl is a racetrack recognized under NASCAR ’ s Whelen All-American Series sanction, and holds touring events throughout the year including the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, Valenti Modified Racing Series, International Super Modified Association and North Eastern Midget Association among many others.

Lloyd Moore, who competed in NASCAR from 1949 – 1955, was born in Frewsburg and worked as a bus driver and mechanic in the school district for many years.

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.

As a competitor in college athletics, UCF has many notable student athletes, coaches and staff members, such as NFL players Matt Prater, Daunte Culpepper, Kevin Smith, Brandon Marshall, Asante Samuel, Atari Bigby, Mike Sims-Walker, and Josh Robinson, MLS goalkeeper Sean Johnson, NBA starting guard Jermaine Taylor, NASCAR driver Aric Almirola, Olympic beach volleyball player Phil Dalhausser and soccer star Michelle Akers.

After the NASCAR ban, Ford continued to produce the SOHC, selling it over the counter to racers and others who used it to power many altered-wheelbase A / FX Mustangs and supercharged Top Fuel dragsters.

Citgo was a sponsor of the Wood Brothers racing team in NASCAR for many years, with drivers such as Elliott Sadler, Kyle Petty, Neil Bonnett, Morgan Shepherd and Dale Jarrett.

The camp has received support from many NASCAR drivers, teams, and sponsors, including Cup Series sponsor Sprint, which has placed a replica of Adam's 1998 car in the camp.

* many NASCAR races often use the number 500 at the end of their race names ( i. e. Daytona 500 ), to denote the length of the race ( in miles, kilometers or laps ).

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.

The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR with many race teams located in the Charlotte area.

Talladega Superspeedway hosts many NASCAR events which include two Sprint Cup Series races, one Nationwide Series race, and one Camping World Truck Series race.

It is nicknamed " The Lady in Black " and " The Track Too Tough to Tame " by many NASCAR fans and drivers and advertised as " A NASCAR Tradition.

Darlington has something of a legendary quality among drivers and older fans ; this is probably due to its long track length relative to other NASCAR speedways of its era and hence the first venue where many of them became cognizant of the truly high speeds that stock cars could achieve on a long track.