Bill France Sr. and his willing partners — some more willing than others — created NASCAR in an art deco inn right across the highway from Daytona Beach’s surf.
When they left the Streamline Hotel that December day in 1947, the makeshift masters of stock-car racing didn’t own a map nor possess certainty that the unpaved road would lead to anywhere special.
The loosely arranged sport needed rules. The ambitious France concluded that racing needed a ruler to impose a tire-iron grip on maverick promoters and the rowdy cowboys slinging their souped-up street cars around the South’s dirty curves.
The France gang started NASCAR history. Some 62 years later, as NASCAR prepares to capture the echoes and trinkets of that history in a $195 million Charlotte museum financed by hotel taxes…Â Details
Dennis Borem and Darrell Hoffman of Pro Motor Engines made history in May, capturing their record third consecutive Mahle Engine Builder Showdown in the closest finish in the 10-year history of the competition.
In a fierce neck-and-neck battle, the Pro Motor Engines team built a complete Chevrolet R07 race engine and successfully ran it for one minute in an incredible 19 minutes, 27 seconds, edging the Roush Yates Engines team of Mike Kasch and Jim Snyder by a mere 17 seconds (19 minutes, 44 seconds).
In what was a rematch of the 2008 final, the Roush Yates team seemed to …Â Details
“You take ‘em any way you can get ‘em,†Tony Stewart said a week ago as he defended rookie Joey Logano’s victory in the rain-shortened race at New Hampshire.
His opinion apparently changed following the last-lap contact between Stewart and Kyle Busch in Saturday night’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
Busch’s block of Stewart’s attempted pass triggered a vicious accident that sent Busch sailing into the wall, and made it difficult for Stewart to enjoy his second victory as owner of his race team.
“I just don’t like it to end that way,†Stewart said. “You know, you work hard to … Details