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

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.

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.

Villeneuve at 2011 NASCAR Nationwide race

Villeneuve also had two starts in the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, both for Braun Racing, with his best performance starting 6th and finishing 4th at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, again under wet conditions and the second time rain tires were used in a NASCAR event.

For 2011 Villeneuve agreed to take over for Brad Keselowski in the number 22 car for Penske Racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series for two races which Keselowski could not attend.

As reported by Jayski. com, the Ford Mustang will be Ford's Car of Tomorrow for the NASCAR Nationwide Series in 2010, opening a new chapter in both Mustang's history and Ford's history.

* Charles Lewandoski ( 1985 -), Current NASCAR Nationwide Series driver.

* Chad Blount, NASCAR Nationwide driver

Loudon is home to the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, which in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is home to the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 and the Sylvania 300, in the NASCAR Nationwide Series the New England 200, in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series the Sylvania 150, and is also home to the Loudon Classic, America's Oldest Motorcycle Race.

* Mike Wallace ( NASCAR Nationwide Series Driver )

* Benny Gordon-USAR ProCup Driver / NASCAR Nationwide Series Rookie

* Eric McClure ( b. 1978 ) Driver of the # 14 Chevy in the NASCAR Nationwide Series.

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

In 2008 Nationwide Insurance became the title sponsor of the " NASCAR Nationwide Series ".

In July 2008 NASCAR announced that the Nationwide Series would not return to Mexico City's Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in 2009.

As a result, starting with the 2011 season, NASCAR implemented a rule that stated that a driver could only race for the drivers ' championship in one of three national series ( Sprint Cup, Nationwide, and Camping World Truck ) of the drivers ' choosing.

NASCAR officials are using a template ( racing ) | template to inspect Casey Atwood's 2004 Nationwide Series car

As of 2007, ESPN no longer displays the actual name of the NASCAR Nationwide Series or Sprint Cup Series race during highlights of such ( Example: the " Allstate 400 at the Brickyard " was re-dubbed the " Brickyard 400 pres.

Coors is the title sponsor of the pole award in the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series.

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.

Category: NASCAR Cup Series champions

* 2001 – Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident during the Daytona 500.

It also oversees NASCAR Local Racing, the Whelen Modified Tour, the Whelen All-American Series, and the NASCAR iRacing. com Series.

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.

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

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

In 2008, NASCAR on Fox introduced a new camera embedded between turns 1 and 2 on the various tracks ; it was soon called " Digger Cam " and a mascot gopher was unveiled along with it.

One week later, he provided NASCAR with one of its most controversial moments.

Additionally, owing to its Southern roots, all but a handful of NASCAR teams are still based in North Carolina, especially near Charlotte.

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.

Applications requiring its high density include weights, counterweights, ballast keels for yachts, tail ballast for commercial aircraft, and as ballast in race cars for NASCAR and Formula One ; depleted uranium is also used for these purposes, due to similarly high density.

Those trials were sanctioned and supervised by NASCAR. Note: between 1964 and 1966, Oldsmobile named its least expensive full size model the Oldsmobile Jetstar 88 which the Jetstar I was not related to, and priced $ 500 –$ 600 below the Jetstar I.

In 2008 Sporting News ranked Dover 215th in its list of the 400 Best Sports Cities based on the year October 2007-October 2008, a year which saw high attendance for the NASCAR races and Delaware State's football team making its first FCS tournament appearance.

Global Crossing gained a great deal of publicity from sponsorship of NASCAR racing and the attempt to rescue a Russian submarine, but its business was struggling.

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.

The apparent sole purpose of its establishment was to force rate renegotiations to help pay for TNT's new NBA and NASCAR contracts, well before the channel's rates were scheduled to come up for renewal with most cable and satellite providers.

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 festival's popularity stems from its wide array of events, such as arts and crafts shows, NASCAR displays, popular amusement park rides, and multi-artist day-long concerts, and the fact that parking, entry to the festival, and attendance of the concert are all free of charge.

This town was featured in Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy discussing its history of moonshine and how bootlegging eventually turned into NASCAR.

The Fire Company hosts its annual Fireman's Carnival the first weekend in August and also hosts Racefest, which brings a NASCAR driver to its grounds for the day.

Specifically, the engine that was installed in the car was Ford's famed 427 FE NASCAR " Side-Oiler " V8, a power-house engine developing in its mildest street version.

In December 2006, NASCAR officials confirmed that Anheuser-Busch, parent company for Busch Beer, would not renew its sponsorship of NASCAR's No. 2 series after the end of the 2007 Season.

In 2010, Coca-Cola once again used the song in a television commercial featuring the entire line of its sponsored NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers.

The Matador two-door hardtop, known as the " flying brick " due to its poor aerodynamics in NASCAR competition, was replaced at great cost with a sleek, smoothly shaped, and radically styled two-door coupe.

In addition to its official NASCAR sponsorship, Coors Light has regularly sponsored cars in the series, most recently for Chip Ganassi Racing.