About NASCAR
NASCAR racing has been a staple of the American culture for over five decades. When Bill France started NASCAR in 1949 he had a vision of ordinary guys racing ordinary every-day cars. Thus stock car racing was invented and Americans took notice. Only on a NASCAR track would you be able to watch your family sedan tear around a track rubbing paint with your neighbor’s new Ford. In the beginning stages of NASCAR anyone could race as long as he qualified, with any car he could find (including rental cars).
Up shifting into the next generation of NASCAR is anything but ordinary drivers and ordinary cars. Today’s "stock cars" are highly modified racers with million dollar sponsors and professional drivers. With heavy regulation on aerodynamics, materials, and engine displacement it’s up the drivers and their pit crews to win races with driving skill and car analysis. Whether drafting to stock pile horse power for the straight-away, monitoring tire wear and wedge angles or getting your car out of the pit quickly, the new NASCAR is a sport of millimeters, seconds and lightning fast reflexes.
Proving that NASCAR is one of the top sports in the country is the amount of raceways spread across the country. Misperceived as only popular in the south, NASCAR stages races in Chicago, Denver, California, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio to name a few. With over 12 percent of the television audience tuning in on race day, it’s no wonder why NASCAR has grown from an obscure American enigma into a legitimate sport… if not a national pastime.
