The exclusive organization was established by Bill France Sr. in 1948, and his grandson Brian France has been CEO since 2003.
The organization’s home office is in Daytona Beach, Florida.
NASCAR
NASCAR National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is an American auto dashing endorsing and working organization that is best known for stock-auto hustling.
Its three biggest or National arrangement are Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, the Xfinity Series, and the Camping World Truck Series.
Globally, its races are communicated on TV in more than 150 nations.
In the 30s, Daytona Beach ended up known as the place to set world land speed records, supplanting France and Belgium as the favored area for arrive speed records, with 8 sequential world records set somewhere in the range of 1927 and 1935.
Source
Stock auto hustling in the United States has its birthplaces in bootlegging amid Prohibition, when drivers ran contraband bourbon made basically in the Appalachian area of the United States. Peddlers expected to disperse their unlawful items, and they commonly utilized little, quick vehicles to all the more likely dodge the police. A significant number of the drivers would change their autos for speed and dealing with, and in addition expanded freight limit, and some of them came to love the quick paced driving down twisty mountain streets.
Established
On March 8, 1936, an accumulation of drivers assembled at Daytona Beach, Florida. The drivers brought roadsters, hardtops, convertibles, and games autos to contend in an occasion to decide the speediest autos, and best drivers. All through the race, the heavier autos got hindered in the sand, while the lightweight Fords explored the trenches of the course, in the end asserting the best 6 completes for the race. Of the 27 autos that began the occasion, just 10 figured out how to survive the trial, as authorities stopped the occasion 10 miles shy of the booked 250-mile remove. Driver Milt Marion was proclaimed the champ, and a youthful Bill France put fifth toward the day’s end.
2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup
The 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series is the 70th period of expert stock auto dashing in the United States, and the 47th present day time Cup arrangement season. The season started at Daytona International Speedway with the Advance Auto Parts Clash, the Can-Am Duel qualifying races and the 60th running of the Daytona 500. The standard season will end with the Brickyard 400 on September 9, 2018. The playoffs will end with the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 18, 2018. Martin Truex Jr. is the protecting boss, having won his first in the arrangement.
This is the last season for Kasey Kahne, who declared his expectation to resign from dashing toward the finish of the season.
2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup schedule
DATE | LOCATION | EVENT | TIME | NETWORK | WINNER |
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Feb. 18 | Daytona International Speedway | DAYTONA 500 | 1PM | FOX | Austin Dillon |
Feb. 25 | Atlanta Motor Speedway | Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 | 1PM | FOX | Kevin Harvick |
Mar. 4 | Las Vegas Motor Speedway | Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube | 3:30PM | FOX | Kevin Harvick |
Mar. 11 | ISM Raceway | TicketGuardian 500 | 3:30PM | FOX | Kevin Harvick |
Mar. 18 | Auto Club Speedway | Auto Club 400 | 3:30PM | FOX | Martin Truex Jr. |
Mar. 26 | Martinsville Speedway | STP 500 | 2PM | FS1 | Clint Bowyer |
April 8 | Texas Motor Speedway | O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 | 2PM | FS1 | Kyle Busch |
April 15 | Bristol Motor Speedway | Food City 500 | 2PM | FOX | Kyle Busch |
April 21 | Richmond Raceway | Toyota Owners 400 | 630PM | FOX | Kyle Busch |
April 29 | Talladega Superspeedway | GEICO 500 | 2PM | FOX | Joey Logano |
May 6 | Dover International Speedway | AAA 400 Drive for Autism | 2PM | FS1 | Kevin Harvick |
May 12 | Kansas Speedway | KC Masterpiece 400 | 8PM | FS1 | Kevin Harvick |
May 19 | Charlotte Motor Speedway | Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway | 8PM | FS1 | Kevin Harvick |
May 27 | Charlotte Motor Speedway | Coca-Cola 600 | 6PM | FOX | Kyle Busch |
June 3 | Pocono Raceway | Pocono 400 | 2PM | FS1 | Martin Truex Jr. |
June 10 | Michigan International Speedway | FireKeepers Casino 400 | 2PM | FOX | Clint Bowyer |
June 24 | Sonoma Raceway | Toyota/Save Mart 350 | 3PM | FS1 | Martin Truex Jr. |
July 1 | Chicagoland Speedway | Overton’s 400 | 2:30PM | NBCSN | Kyle Busch |
July 7 | Daytona International Speedway | Coke Zero Sugar 400 | 7PM | NBC | Erik Jones |
July 14 | Kentucky Speedway | Quaker State 400 | 7:30PM | NBCSN | Martin Truex Jr. |
July 22 | New Hampshire Motor Speedway | New Hampshire 301 | 2PM | NBCSN | Kevin Harvick |
July 29 | Pocono Raceway | Gander Outdoors 400 | 2:30PM | NBCSN | Kyle Busch |
Aug. 5 | Watkins Glen International | GoBowling at The Glen | 2:30PM | NBC | Chase Elliott |
Aug. 12 | Michigan International Speedway | Consumers Energy 400 | 2:30PM | NBCSN | Kevin Harvick |
Aug. 18 | Bristol Motor Speedway | Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race | 7:30PM | NBCSN | TBD |
Sept. 2 | Darlington Raceway | Bojangles’ Southern 500 | 6PM | NBCSN | TBD |
Sept. 9 | Indianapolis Motor Speedway | Big Machine Vodka Brickyard 400 | 2PM | NBCSN | TBD |
Sept. 16 | Las Vegas Motor Speedway | *South Point 400 | 3PM | NBCSN | TBD |
Sept. 22 | Richmond Raceway | *Federated Auto Parts 400 | 730PM | NBCSN | TBD |
Sept. 30 | Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course | *Bank of America 500 | 2PM | NBC | TBD |
Oct. 7 | Dover International Speedway | *Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series at Dover | 2PM | NBCSN | TBD |
Oct. 14 | Talladega Superspeedway | *1000Bulbs.com 500 | 2PM | NBC | TBD |
Oct. 21 | Kansas Speedway | *Hollywood Casino 400 | 2PM | NBC | TBD |
Oct. 28 | Martinsville Speedway | *First Data 500 | 2:30PM | NBCSN | TBD |
Nov. 4 | Texas Motor Speedway | *AAA Texas 500 | 3PM | NBCSN | TBD |
Nov. 11 | ISM Raceway | *Can-Am 500 | 2:30PM | NBC | TBD |
Nov. 18 | Homestead-Miami Speedway | *Ford EcoBoost 400 | 3PM | NBC | TBD |