NASCAR - Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
NASCAR is the acronym for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, is the largest sanctioning body of the motor sports in USA. The Association sanctions the racing series in many states in the United States mainly in Canada, Mexico, and in 30 more states.
It is one of the largest sanctioning bodies of motor sports in the United States. The NEXTEL Cup, the Busch Series and the Craftsman Truck Series are the three largest racing series which have been sanctioned by NASCAR. It has held many exhibition races in various countries too, with a special mention to Japan and Australia.
The NASCAR association comes under the category of Stock cars and the areas it operates are Canada, United States and Mexico, and the association is been formed in 1948, and the present President being Mike Helton and the chairman being Brian France. The association bears a website too under the url www.nascar.com Though the headquarters of the association is located in is located in Daytona Beach, Florida, its main offices are maintained in four of North Carolina cities: Charlotte, Mooresville, Concord and Conover. It has three regional offices in the New York City, Los Angeles, Arkansas, and three international offices in Mexico City, Toronto and Ontario. The information and about the latest happening of the association, and every other thing is mentioned in the Talk Nascar Blog.
It is one of the fastest and favourite websites visited by over 1 billion people visit this page and people of various categories from over 50 states and globally visit this page and it is been considered as the fastest growing websites in the Internet.
Generally the car races are conducted on either Oval tracks or Road courses. Oval tracks are considered as short tracks while road courses are tracks which have both left and right turns. The NASCAR races are quite different and unique when compared, as these races mostly takes place on oval tracks of 3 or 4 turns. Usually, the NASCAR series includes 36 point races, which comprises of 34 oval tracks races and 2 road course races.
The fans of NASCAR car series can point to the success of NASCAR drivers who have moved from other racing car series. Many car drivers who have won cent percent success in other car series fails to score high in the NASCAR series and at the same time struggles to finish up the series too.
It is the major sanctioning body of the premier sports and it is the spectator sports which hold the major listing of 17 out of the 20 attended sporting events which has taken place in the U.S. No wonder, the NASCAR series has been listed and rated as the number two rated sport which is been regularly watched as a season sport. The series has been broadcasted over 150 countries, and has a huge fan list of 75 million and the purchase rate scores up to a height of 2$ billion in its product sales which are licensed annually. These fans are the most loyal watchers of all sports, so it has motivated the Fortune 500 companies to sponsor the NASCAR more than any other sport.