The Girl's Guide to Nascar
Chapter One
The Starting Lineup
The popularity and growth of the sport speaks for itself. But make no
mistake, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) has
carefully charted and directed the course of the enormously successful stock
car racing series from the very beginning. The NASCAR you see today seems to be
very different from the NASCAR that started over fifty years ago, but it is not
as different as one might think. What has remained "on track"
through the years are the colorful personalities of the drivers, the fierce
competition, and the steadfast fans.
Before NASCAR
Was there wheeled racing before NASCAR? You betcha ... but not what we
know as racing in this day and age. Racing can be traced back as far as the
horse-and-buggy days when young men (and women) with a need for speed rumbled
across rock-filled dirt roads. Later generations raced cars on back roads and
makeshift drag strips before the first racetrack was ever built. The first
racetracks were simply dirt, making for great racing and dirt-filled noses ... read full excerpt from: The Girl's Guide to NASCAR(R) ebook
