When and where did NASCAR get its start?
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NASCAR has deep roots in the south, starting with bootleggers during Prohibition. They would have to outrun the police, so they worked on improving their cars, and practiced driving on dirt roads at high speeds. They even created new ways to handle at high speeds (see a "bootlegger's turn", where you pull the emergency brake to do a quick 180).\n\nAfter Prohibition was lifted, they kept driving, and started on dirt tracks. Eventually, the "sport" (driving in circles on concrete doesn't really qualify as a real sport, to me) morphed into what it is, today.
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OMG I love Nascar. my fav driver is Kasey Kahne, Jamie McMurrey, E jr, and Jimmie Johnson. Matt Kenseth is also good. I can not stand Jeff Gordon or Tony Stewart.
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Yesterdays cars were very different from todays NASCAR entries.  They were much less aerodynamic and the engines, although much larger, turned at lower RPMs.  Today's cars all have the same size engine as well.  \nIn the past  the manufacturers would actually producce a limited number of some of the specialized racers, such as Superbirds and Daytonas for sale to the public.  These were street legal cars that would , with a few minor modifications, actually have been able to hold their own on the race track.  Todays NASCAR vehicles are built from the ground up to be race cars and could never be made street legal.  That's one of the reasons you hear them talk about the modern era.\n Which cars are better, is entirely a matter of ones opinion.  Personally, I like a car I can easily recognize and one that is actually a stock car.  Todays cars can barely be called stock. When you compare todays cars to yesterdays cars it's not really a fair comparison, but if The King was driving . . .
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I've been a NASCAR fan since I was a little kid and I'm glad to see Toyota come into the scene, gives the American made teams something to compete against aside from their own egos. I guess the hatred goes to the "NASCAR is an American sport" mentality, hard to believe that other countries race cars and lets not forget that NASCAR races in Japan on occasion so what not let them have teams here?
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I have been a NASCAR fan a very long time.  NASCAR used to vary the amount of cars that would be allowed to participate at any give race depending on the track.  It wasn't until about 9 or maybe 10 years ago that NASCAR ruled that only 43 cars would be allowed to participate at every race.  This makes for especially fun and exciting races at tracks like Bristol and Richmond.  There are rare cases where there are less than 43 cars start the race, but never more than 43 cars become far too dangerous on the track.
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In reality, all joking aside, you must have a NASCAR license which can not be attained until the age of 18. NASCAR stands for: National, Association, Stock, Car, Auto, Racing, it does not stand for: Non, Athletic, Sport, Centered, Around, Rednecks, Wich previous statements indicates.
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THERE WOULD BE MILLINS OF NASCAR FANS NASCAR IS THE #1 MOTOR SPORT OUT THERE. AND DONT SEE THAT CHANGING,
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I watched most of the truck race last night as well.  I think that NASCAR should allow a Green-White-Checker restarts until they are able to complete it.  I know that the trucks were doing that a couple years back and they had about 6 green-white-checker restarts in one race.
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Richard Petty in 1965 breifly entered drag racing, driving a Plymouth Barracuda with a 426 Hemi engine after NASCAR banned that engine from its stock car races following the 1964 season.\n\nOn February 28, 1965 driving a Barracuda called "Outlawed," in a match race with Arnie Beswick, the Barracuda experienced transmission problems off the line. As Petty tried to find second gear, the car started to get loose. When Petty finally got it into second gear the car suddenly broke loose, turned towards the spectator area, and hit the embankment. The Petty Blue Barracuda vaulted the embankment, and went into the crowd. Seven people were injured; the eighth victim, 8 year old Wayne Dye of Austell, Georgia died of his injuries before reaching the hospital.
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National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR)
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Try http://store.nascar.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=1953292&cp=2056638&clickid=leftnav_txt
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NASCAR is allowing Toyota to come into the sport starting next year....thus they are allowing the pace cars to be Toyota starting this year because the deal has already been made. Yeah, I agree with the whole American-made car thing too...
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There is no real difference in cart and indy.  Nascar is just stock car racing.  Iroc all the cars are exactly the same so it comes down to the driver.  LeMans is mostly Daytona Prototypes, GT1,GT2,and GT3 cars they all run at the same time.  The race is 24 hrs long.  So it comes to what team completed the most laps in the 24 hour time period.  Now F1 cars are almost like indy and cart cars the only thing different is the amount of horsepower.  Well thats all I know. I hope it helps.
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Well this year they celebrated the 50th year of NASCAR so back in 1996 that was 40 years....so that might be it. Other than that, i don't know.
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Dale Earnhardt started racing in the NASCAR series in 1975. In his 26 or 27 year NASCAR career he raced in 676 races winning an impressive 76 times.He also had 281 top 5,428 top 10 finishes with 22 pole positions.In 676 races he drove a total of 202888 laps (or the equivalent of 245420.9 miles).Dale earned $42,001.697.
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NASCAR all the way!!! My favorite driver is Tony Stewart #20!! have been a fan of his for about 7 years now.
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NASCAR wanted to standardize the size of the fields and after some trial and error, settled on a field consisting of 36 qualifiers with six provisionals that could be used by the regular drivers. That's a total of 42 cars. \nThe story about the odd car, the 43rd starter, began about twelve years ago when Darrell Waltrip was having trouble making the starting lineup. NASCAR created a Champions Provisional to help get Waltrip into the field. In fact it could be used to help any present or ex-champion but recently was used for other drivers, if a Champions Provisional wasn't used. It goes to the car owner with the highest points that didn't qualify on speed.