Nascar Tickets

Stock car racing, which was later to become the most popular spectator sports in the world, started to grow, post World War II. Though the races all over the country were drawing larger crowds, there was hardly any organization, and there was no consistency in the rules. The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) was born out of a meeting organized by Bill France Sr., in December 1947, to discuss the problems being faced by stock car racing.

No one, including France, knew whether the organization would succeed, and never in his or her dreams thought NASCAR would become what it is today.

Just two months after that meeting, the first race sanctioned was held on February 15, 1948, at the Daytona Beach. NASCAR, till then, had not even been incorporated, but it was, a week later, on February 21. In 1949, the first premier racing division in America – what is now the Winston Cup Series – took off. Held on a two-mile circular course in southern Florida, followed by a 150-mile race at the three-quarter-mile Charlotte Speedway, the first event featured a $5,000 prize money. This event gained so much popularity that a total of 8 events were held in 1949!

The success caused plans to be made to bring in bigger and faster cars, and the next ten years were times of tremendous growth for the Winston Cup Series. It started with the country’s first asphalt super speedway – the Darlington Raceway – in South Carolina, in 1950. Construction for a new 2.5-mile high-banked speedway in Daytona Beach, four miles off the beach in Daytona, started in 1957, and was completed in 1959.

This 2.5-mile tri-oval Daytona International Speedway, with its long back straightaway and high-banked turns of more than 30 degrees, was one of the largest speedways in the world. A 100-mile NASCAR Convertible Division race – the first at this new track – was held on February 20, 1959. The finish of this inaugural race – the Daytona 500 – between Lee Petty and Johnny Beauchamp, was so close that the officials took three days to study the photograph before declaring Petty the winner in his 1959 Oldsmobile.

The early 1970s brought in corporate sponsorship and the series had backing of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and its Winston brand in 1971. This was the beginning of the NASCAR Winston Cup Series, and in 1976, the Series had more than 1.4 million spectators attending the events – the highest in any motorsports, worldwide.

Though, today, the sport is a long way from that first meeting in December 1947, the competition is still fierce and close.

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