This speedway phenomena and crowd-sports fascination is an annual specialty racing mass-event, presented by NASCAR, Daytona Beach, Florida in the USA. Typically held in the state of North Carolina at the Lowe’s Motor Speedway, Concord, N.C., it has become a part of the fabric of not only the local area, but also a National passion and worldwide sporting event of distinction.
It offers one and all – with an insatiable need and appetite for the ultimate in speed and custom wheels racing – some utter satisfaction and the perfect adrenaline rush, on-demand and lap-by-lap!
It remains one of the largest global spectator sports and sports-betting favorite, gaining ground every year. It has however also known some ups and downs in its interwoven, proud and tragic history.
It came rooted in and from humble beginnings in the whiskey bootlegging down South, the ensuing stock-car racing of the early years, to the formal establishment of the national sanctioning body to govern stock racing on December 12, 1947 called NASCAR, the now well-recognized acronym and branding for the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.
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