The NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Racing)the queen of American speed tests, celebrates the 75th anniversary of its first season on Tuesday.
It was December 1947 when the passionate automobile competitions Bill France Sr., which has been organizing races in Florida for almost twenty years, had the idea to open a unique car association for production cars.
Two months later, in February 1948, NASCAR opened its first season with a race at Daytona, Florida. This Tuesday, NASCAR celebrates its 75th birthday, established as the most followed auto competition in USA.
NASCAR celebrated its anniversary with a special video that aired Sunday at the 2023 season opener in Daytona, which summed up his story in sixty seconds, beginning on the beaches of Daytona. The association now organizes, among its various categories, races in more than one hundred circuits in the country.
The first officially organized race for ‘stock cars’ was held in June 1949 at ‘Charlotte Fairgrounds Speedway’ before 13,000 spectators, and Jim Roper won in a Ford Lincoln after 197 laps.
Ten years later, the first edition of the iconic Daytona 500 will be held, with more than 41,000 fans in attendance and including Lee Petty as the first winner.
The passion for motorsports had a vertical growth in the United States between the 50s and 60s and NASCAR extended its number of races and appointments throughout the season.
the one of Jacksonville, Florida of 1964 will go down in history for registering the first victory by an African-American driver in the national series. is Wendell Scott, a mechanic and former military man who fought in the Second World War.
Rivalries as in Darrell Waltrip and Richard Petty lit up NASCAR in the 1970s. The latter won his seventh NASCAR Cup title in 1979, a record wins tied with Dale Earnhardt and jimmy johnson.
Petty, 85, native Level Cross, North Carolinaremains in NASCAR history for his seven victories in Daytona 500 and also holds the record for NASCAR Cup wins, with 200.
The 1970s also marked the first full-fledged television career of United States (CBS, Daytona 500 in 1979) and the debut of Janet Guthriein 1977, the first woman to compete at Daytona.
Furthermore, in 2013, danica patrick will make history with the first ‘pole’ for a woman in the NASCAR series. Three years later, Jimmy Johnson would match Petty and Earnhardt with three championship titles.
75 years after the first race in its history, NASCAR continues to grow and has a huge following among American motorsport fans.
It succeeded despite a dramatic increase in interest in Formula 1, which this year has three races in the United States, in Miami, Austin and Las Vegas.
Source: La Verdad
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