In Indonesia, the NASCAR racing event is indeed less popular when compared to F1, let alone MotoGP. But in the United States, NASCAR is a very popular racing event. By the way, NASCAR is written with all capital letters because it turns out that the name NASCAR has an abbreviation. Talking about NASCAR, this racing event has a fairly long history, also dark.
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The reason is that this racing event was previously carried out illegally. Initially, the Moonshiners, aka makers and sellers of illegal liquor, often smuggled liquor using cars in the Virginia and Georgia regions of the United States. In order to escape the police, they modified their cars so that they could go faster. Because their cars were already fast, these Moonshiners began to race each other. Don’t think of racing on the track, at that time they competed on dirt roads.
This article has been published on https://www.gridoto.com with the title “This is the Abbreviation of NASCAR, Turns Out This Race Has a Dark History”.
The car that was the favorite of the Moonshines at that time was the Ford Business Coupe. Indeed, this car was far from sporty, but this was precisely the Moonshine’s strategy so as not to attract the attention of the police.
Unexpectedly, over time more and more Moonshines became addicted to racing. From there, the organization was officially formed. December 1947, Bill France Sr. finally held a meeting at the Streamline Hotel, Daytona, United States. The result of the meeting was the establishment of an organization called the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing or abbreviated as NASCAR.
Two months later, on February 15, 1948, the first NASCAR race was held on the Daytona Beach track. The winner was Red Byron, with a Ford car that had been modified by his team. That’s the history of NASCAR before it became America’s favorite racing event, cool huh?