Budweiser is the official beer of NHRA and was the official beer of NASCAR until 2007.

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.

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 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.

* 1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.

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.

As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of Bill France, Sr. NASCAR is the largest sanctioning body of stock car racing in the United States.

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

Parma is the birthplace of world-renowned ecologist and soil scientist Dr. Robert E. Horton and NASCAR driver Brian Tyler.

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.

" The King ", as he is nicknamed, is most well known for winning the NASCAR Championship seven times ( Dale Earnhardt is the only other driver to accomplish this feat ), winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 races ( ten of them consecutively ) in the 1967 season alone.

Petty is a member of the inaugural class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Richard's son, Kyle Petty, is also a well-known NASCAR driver.

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.

* 1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.

The event originally included the world's top rally drivers, but now features stars also from other disciplines, such as Formula One, NASCAR, Le Mans and MotoGP, competing against each other in identical cars.

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

The Daytona 500 is regarded as the most important and prestigious race on the NASCAR calendar, carrying by far the largest purse.

Two weekends a year, NASCAR races are held at Dover International Speedway, attracting close to 100, 000 spectators and visitors and temporarily making Dover the state's largest city.

During the 2005 season, Stewart won a total of $ 13, 578, 168, including $ 6, 173, 633 for winning the championship, the largest season total in NASCAR history.

1994: The first running of the Brickyard 400 in 1994 saw the largest crowd to date to witness a NASCAR event, and the single largest race purse to date.

The NASCAR sanctioned Miller High Life stock car race on February 28, 1970 drew a crowd of 80, 000 and was the third largest crowd to see the first low bank 2-1 / 2 mile oval stock car race, and the third largest attendance for a stock car race behind the Daytona 500 and the Talladega 500.

ISC was founded by NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr. in 1953 for the construction of Daytona International Speedway and in 1999 they merged with Penske Motorsports to become one of the largest motorsports companies in North America.

Hyder was also fined $ 100, 000, the largest fine ever handed down by NASCAR.

Kyle Busch became only the second active NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver to win New England's largest short track race.

Because Canada is NASCAR's largest market outside the United States, NASCAR brought the NAPA Auto Parts 200 Busch Series ( now Nationwide Series ) race to Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in 2007 ; the race has continued on the schedule ever since.

The 1960 race is notable for having the largest pileup in NASCAR history.

Evernham is also known for having been penalized with one of the largest fines in the history of NASCAR.

It was originally the largest fine in NASCAR history, until being eclipsed by Michael Waltrip Racing's $ 100, 000 fine in February 2007 and Carl Long's $ 200, 000 fine in May 2009, the largest in NASCAR history.

The NHRA sponsorship lasted up to 2001, before a new governing rule stated the Master Settlement Agreement, restricting R. J. Reynolds to one sponsorship of a sporting event ; as a result, they chose NASCAR, which lasted up to 2003.

At the time, it typically took three years for a new design of car body or engine to end up in production and be available for NASCAR racing.

In 1989, NASCAR changed rules requiring cars to use current body styles, similar to the Sprint Cup cars.

The body also has differences between each manufacturer, but still within strict aerodynamic guidelines provided by NASCAR.

Dick Trickle's 1968 Torino NASCAR with the aerodynamic " Sportsroof " body

A new 2 + 2 model was offered for homologation of an Aerocoupé body for NASCAR competition, just as how Chevrolet as well released the Monte Carlo SS Aerocoupé in 1986.

Also, where NASCAR had strict rules concerning body shapes ( in order to maintain as much parity as possible among the approved models ), CASCAR's rules tended to be more lax.

Contrary to popular belief, foreign cars had competed in NASCAR competition in the early days of the sanctioning body ; indeed, a Jaguar won a NASCAR-sanctioned race in the Grand National division ( predecessor to the modern Sprint Cup Series ) at a road course in Linden, New Jersey in 1954, according to commentator Mike Joy, and the last foreign-made car to compete in a NASCAR-sanctioned event was an MG at one Grand National race in 1963 ( before Toyota entered the Nextel Cup Series at the beginning of the 2007 season.

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It was this restyled body that ( along with the Monte Carlo, Buick Regal, and Pontiac Gran Prix ) ushered in the down-sized cars into NASCAR cup competition.

This Cutlass body style proved to be a winner for NASCAR competition and it visited the victory circle 13 times between 1989 and 1992, when Olds ended its racing program.

NASCAR, the principal body for stock car racing in North America, has an extensive system of developmental series, with the ultimate goal for drivers being a ride in the top-level Sprint Cup Series.

In the 1968 NASCAR Grand National stock car season, the fastback Fairlane body style proved much slicker than other makes, but the nose of the Mercury Cyclone Fastback was the main reason pointed to it being even slightly faster than its Ford counterpart.

NASCAR wanted the cars to get to the halfway point to make the race official, so the sanctioning body had the drivers slowly circle the track.

For a NASCAR driver, Edwards spends a lot of time developing his body, as photos of his abdominal and pectoral muscles have shown.

The NASCAR Hall of Fame honors drivers who have shown exceptional skill at NASCAR driving, all-time great crew chiefs and owners, and other major contributors to competition within the sanctioning body.

During the prerace for the Samsung 500 NASCAR race at Texas in 2008, NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer and FOX analyst Jeff Hammond drove the Bounty Hunter truck ( which was actually the Scarlet Bandit truck with a different body ) for a feature segment of the show.

After a concrete patch only disintegrated again, NASCAR used Bondo body filler to patch the track with just 40 laps remaining.

The Fusion also became the new body style for Ford automobiles in NASCAR beginning in 2006, replacing the Taurus.