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STANDINGS
2012 Official Driver Standings: Ford EcoBoost 300
STANDINGS
2012 Official Driver Standings: Ford EcoBoost 400
STANDINGS
2012 Official Driver Standings: Ford EcoBoost 200
• Where local drivers are compared against each other in a formula where the best local track champion of the nation win.
• Split into four divisions, each division champion receives a point-fund money payout and even more goes to the National champion (driver with most points out of the four division wins).
• Base for stock car racing, developing NASCAR names such as Clint Bowyer, Jimmy Spencer, Tony Stewart, the Bodine brothers and many others along the way.
WHELEN ALL-AMERICAN SERIES
The point system in NASCAR is based on the overall Race standings and Individual lap standings.
It is the most popular and profitable NASCAR series and named after its sponsor Nextel and Sprint.
a.) Whelen All-American Series
b.) Camping World Truck Series
c.) Sprint Cup Series
GENERAL RULES AND INFORMATION
- Each NASCAR racing series has different rules and regulations to follow.
- Only the scoring system and several other rules are made available to the public.
Sanctioned Series
CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES
• Features modified pickup trucks.
• Is one of the three national divisions of NASCAR, together with the Nationwide Series and the Sprint Cup.
• FIrst considered something of an oddity or a "senior tour" for NASCAR drivers, but eventually grew in popularity and has produced Sprint Cup series drivers who had never raced in the Nationwide Series.
NASCAR's safety policy includes:
racing firesuit
carbon fiber seating
and the roof flaps
SPRINT CUP SERIES
• Sport's highest level of professional competition.
• It is consequently the most popular and most profitable NASCAR series.
• In 2004, NEXTEL took over sponsorship of the premier series from R. J. Reynolds, who had sponsored it as the Winston Cup from 1972 until 2003, and formally renamed it the NEXTEL Cup Series.
• In 2008, the premier series title name became the Sprint Cup Series and The Chase for The NEXTEL Cup became the "Chase for the Sprint Cup", as part of the merger between NEXTEL and Sprint.
Who won the first ever NASCAR Grand National event held at Charlotte (N.C.)?
a.) Richard Petty
b.) Jim Roper
c.) Red Byron
The winner of the
first ever NASCAR
Grand National
(now Sprint Cup)
event held at the
Charlotte (N.C.)
• Son of Lee Petty who won the first Daytona 500.
• Referred to as "The King" of stock-car racing.
• Led NASCAR racing through an era that featured a schedule of more than 60 races a year on tracks from Florida to California to Maine with , Buddy Baker, Cale Yarborough, Ned Jarrett, David Pearson and Bobby Allison.
Jim Roper
Richard Petty
• A stock car legend from Atlanta.
• Won the first NASCAR-sanctioned race in his Ford Modified.
Significant People
Red Byron
• Moved to Daytona Beach,
Florida, from Washington, D.C.,
in 1935 to escape the Great
Depression
• Entered the 1936 Daytona
event, finishing fifth. He took
over running the course in 1938.
• Best known for co-founding
and managing NASCAR,
a sanctioning body of United
States-based stock car racing.
Bill France Sr.
• The first Daytona 500 didn't end for three days. It took that long for NASCAR officials to study a photograph of the finish between Petty and Johnny Beauchamp before declaring Petty the winner.
• In the first race, fans were treated to something that each year still brings millions of fans to NASCAR races -- close competition.
• By the end of NASCAR's first decade, the city not only had held on to its racing roots but had outgrown the beach, and in 1959, moved events to Daytona International Speedway.
Daytona Beach, Florida
Location of Nascar’s headquarters.
With its long back straightaway and sweeping high-banked turns of more than 30 degrees, the 2.5-mile tri-oval was one of the largest speedways in the world.
http://www.nascar.com/news/features/history/
http://hometracks.nascar.com/
http://www.nascar.com/races/tracks/dis/
http://www.racingwest.com/news/articles/19550-nascar-camping-world-truck-series-2009-logo.html
http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2007/11/10/070422.html
http://sport.org/2008/11/06/the-close-of-nascars-sprint-cup-series-is-only-a-few-weeks-away/
http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2012/data/standings.html
• Originated in bootlegging during Prohibition when drivers ran bootleg whiskey made primarily in the Appalachian region of the United States.
• Need to distribute illicit products so they typically used small, fast vehicles to better evade the police.
• Many of the drivers would modify their cars for speed and handling, as well as increased cargo capacity, and some of them came to love the fast-paced driving down twisty mountain roads.
• Plans immediately were made for ways to bring bigger, faster races to bigger, hungrier crowds
• In 1950, the country's first asphalt superspeedway, Darlington Raceway in South Carolina, opened its doors for the new division.
• Bill France Sr., began construction of a 2.5-mile, high-banked superspeedway four miles off the beach in Daytona Beach.
After World War II
• Stock-car racing was experiencing the greatest popularity it had ever seen.
• Tracks throughout the country were drawing more drivers, and bigger crowds.
NASCAR
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.
December 1947
• Bill France Sr., of Daytona Beach, Fla., organized a meeting at the Streamline Hotel across the street from the Atlantic Ocean to discuss the problems facing stock-car racing.
• By the time that meeting at the Streamline Hotel was complete, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing was born.
Feb. 15, 1948
• First NASCAR-sanctioned race was held on Daytona's beach course, just two months after the organizational meeting
Feb. 21, 1948
• Six days after the first race, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing was incorporated.
Sources
What does NASCAR stand for?
a.) National Assembly in South California American Racing
b.) National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
c.) National Affiliation of Stock Car Amplified Racing