The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is an
American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best
known for stock car racing. The privately owned company was founded by
Bill France Sr. in 1948, and his son, Jim France, has been the CEO
since August 6, 2018. The company is headquartered in Daytona Beach,
Florida. Each year, NASCAR sanctions over 1,500 races at over 100
tracks in 48 US states as well as in Canada, Mexico, and Europe.In the
1920s and 1930s, Daytona Beach supplanted France and Belgium as the
preferred location for world land speed records. After a historic race
between Ransom Olds and Alexander Winton in 1903, 15 records were set
on what became the Daytona Beach Road Course between 1905 and 1935.
Daytona Beach had become synonymous with fast cars in 1936. Drivers
raced on a 4.1-mile (6.6 km) course, consisting of a 1.5â€"2.0-mile
(2.4â€"3.2 km) stretch of beach as one straightaway, and a narrow
blacktop beachfront highway, State Road A1A, as the other. The two
straights were connected by two tight, deeply rutted and sand covered
turns at each end. NASCAR Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter