* NASCAR Drivers: Non-Stop, television series

In 1998 NASCAR honored Isaac as one of its NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers of all time.

In 1965 he finished second in the overall NASCAR Drivers Championship and had nine wins.

The show's first two seasons ran on FX Networks on Friday nights and was known as NASCAR Drivers: 360.

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* Drivers page at NASCAR. com

In 2004, primary sponsor Unilever backed the Hungry Drivers program to allow for young drivers to compete for a full-time seat in NASCAR.

NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers is a list of NASCAR drivers.

In 1998, as part of its 50th anniversary celebration, NASCAR gathered a panel to select " The 50 Greatest NASCAR Drivers of All Time.

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In 2008, Bowyer won the NASCAR Nationwide Series Drivers Championship.

Drivers who have died as a result of basilar skull fracture include Formula One drivers Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna, Indianapolis 500 drivers Bill Vukovich, Tony Bettenhausen, Floyd Roberts, and Scott Brayton, NASCAR drivers Dale Earnhardt Sr., Adam Petty, Tony Roper, Kenny Irwin, Jr., Neil Bonnett, John Nemechek, J. D. McDuffie, and Richie Evans, CART drivers Jovy Marcelo, Greg Moore and Gonzalo Rodriguez, and ARCA driver Blaise Alexander.

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.

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.

Parsons qualified for the 1982 Winston 500 at Talladega Superspeedway at 200. 175 miles per hour ( mph ), which was the first NASCAR qualification run over.

The American 500 was a 500 lap, 500 mile NASCAR Grand National Series race won by Curtis Turner at an average speed of 101. 942 miles per hour.

* The first driver to qualify for a NASCAR Grand National race at a speed greater than 180 miles per hour ( 1967 Daytona 500, driving # 13, a 1967 Smokey Yunick Chevrolet.

It was shortened to 221 laps because it was after 11: 00 PM and NASCAR wanted to " get the fans out at a decent hour ".

In 1997, after his sponsorship with Coca-Cola ended, NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon signed a long term contract with Pepsi, and he drives with the Pepsi logos on his car with various paint schemes for about 2 races each year, usually a darker paint scheme during nighttime races.

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 ).

* In the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series the number 21 has long been the car number for Wood Brothers Racing

Except for five races in 1973, driving for Bud Moore Engineering, Waltrip primarily drove his own cars at the beginning of his NASCAR career until the middle of the 1975 Winston Cup season when he was signed a multi-year contract and replace driver Donnie Allison to drive the # 88 DiGard Chevrolet, Waltrip's long awaited jump into the big leagues of United States stock car auto racing.

Gibbs announced that he would focus solely on his NASCAR teams following the 2000 season, ending the 6 year long relationship with NHRA.

It was long known around the world as the home of the United States Grand Prix, which it hosted for 20 consecutive years ( 1961 – 1980 ), but it has been home to road racing of nearly every class for over 50 years, including Formula One, the World Sportscar Championship, Can-Am, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and the IndyCar Series.

Bruton Smith, owner of Lowe's Motor Speedway and other motorsports racetracks, has long had his sights on Meadowlands Racetrack for possible conversion into a short track venue for NASCAR events in the New York City area.

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.

The track long advertised its banking as 36 degrees, which at one time made it the most steeply banked track used by NASCAR.

Michigan is currently the fastest track in NASCAR due to its wide, sweeping corners and long straightaways ; typical qualifying speeds are in excess of and corner entry speeds are anywhere from 215-220 mph ( 340-350 km / h ) after the 2012 repaving of the track.

The three options on Riverside Raceway were the long course (), the short course (), and the NASCAR () course.

His Fox / NASCAR campaign won a 2004 Clio for visual effects and most recently the seventh season promo of long running ABC show Desperate Housewives.

That race was Penske's first NASCAR win in a long history of NASCAR participation and remains to this day, the last non-regular ( non-full schedule ) driver ( road course ringer ) to win a NASCAR Winston Cup road race.

He began his NASCAR career at NASCAR's first race at the three-quarter mile long dirt track, Charlotte Speedway.

( While Toyota Speedway opened in 1999, the track is in a market that has long has NASCAR tracks but many no longer exist.

For Sabates, it was just the beginning of a long, successful career in the NASCAR circuit that includes building one of the most visible and respected of all Winston Cup teams.

In 2001 the Chute was modified to such that the NASCAR circuit measured long.

Bickle, who has never completed a full season in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, has a long history in short track racing.

The Finger Lakes 355 at The Glen is a 90-lap, 220. 5 miles ( 354. 86 km ) long NASCAR Sprint Cup stock car race held at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York.

The Auto Club 400 is a long NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California.