What year was NASCAR founded?

NASCAR was founded on February 21, 1948.

NASCAR stands for National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing, and was founded by William France Sr. The first NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina on June 19, 1949. The three largest racing series within NASCAR are the Sprint Cup, Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series. NASCAR has it's official headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida and is second to the National Football League among professional sports franchises. Originally NASCAR raced slightly modified versions of production American automobiles, but nowadays these cars are highly customized and vary significantly from real production automobiles.

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filmnut

The year I was born . . . you wouldn’t believe how many important organizations were founded in 1948.

Carolyn Scherr Pefley

With these date questions that have no spread at all, and it's likely a very small percentage of people know the exact date but would be able to guess a decade, make the questions more interesting for all of us by giving a wider spread of dates. This is not Jeapardy, and even Jeopardy isn't as exacting as this.

Myrna Rosen

Peter Robertson, science questions are safe.

Mark L Thomas

Start your engines

Peter Robertson

I'm thinking of putting in a question.Can those of you who are always unhappy with the question please advise me what your interests are,what country you are from,and your educational standard and I'll try and ask one that you like. Hey,got a better idea,just send me your question and I'll put the most popular one in????