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Caribbean Club on Key Largo, northernmost of the Florida Keys, was developed and built by auto parts and real estate promoter Carl Graham Fisher in 1938. Carl Fisher, considered a genius as a promoter, had conceived the Lincoln Highway , the first road across America , in 1913.
Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing run on oval tracks and road courses. It originally used production-model cars, hence the name "stock car", but is now run using cars specifically built for racing. It originated in the southern United States and later spread to Japan; its largest governing body is NASCAR.
New Smyrna Speedway began hosting the annual Florida Governor's Cup in 1988 each November. Initially known as the Florida State Late Model Championship, the Governor's Cup was commissioned by former Governor Haydon Burns to pay tribute to Al Keller, long time promoter of Florida short-track racing. Originating at Tampa's Golden State Speedway ...
National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC Sport Auto racing Category Stock car racing Sports car racing (IMSA) Abbreviation NASCAR Founded February 21, 1948 ; 76 years ago (1948-02-21) Affiliation ACCUS-FIA Headquarters Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S. (main) Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. Concord, North Carolina, U.S. President Steve Phelps Peter Jung (Vice President, CMO) Chairman Jim ...
This particular Monte Carlo was driven by Sacha Baron Cohen in the 2006 film 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.' You can buy it for just $22,000.
Modified stock car racing, also known as modified racing and modified, is a type of auto racing that involves purpose-built cars simultaneously racing against each other on oval tracks. First established in the United States after World War II , this type of racing was early-on characterized by its participants' modification of passenger cars ...
The Florida Association of Stock Car Automobile Racing (FASCAR) was considered to be the Florida state version of the National Association for Stock Car Automobile Racing or simply NASCAR for short. It was intended to be a developmental league where 14+-year old drivers develop their skills on stock cars to prepare for racing at the local level ...
The cars from the ASA National tour also raced in England in the now-defunct Stock Car Speed Association (formally ASCAR). On December 10, 2022, racing promoter Track Enterprises announced that the ASA would make a return to sanction the 2023 ASA STARS National Tour, a super late model racing series, under a licensing agreement with ARCA.