What is NASCAR?

So for those of you that may have come across my blog but don't know what NASCAR is this post is for you. NASCAR stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. NASCAR was founded back in 1947-1948 by Bill France SR. There are three major series of NASCAR the Camping World Truck Series, the NASCAR Nationwide Series and the NASCAR Sprint Cup series. The cup series as it is often shortened to is the top level of NASCAR and where all NASCAR drivers aspire to race one day. A NASCAR cup field is almost always 43 drivers occasionally a few less but never more then 43. A NASCAR rookie is signified by yellow tape on the bottom of their bumper which tells the others drivers there still new to this and are still learning. The season is 36 weeks long with just a couple off weekends. The season starts with their super bowl of racing their biggest race of the year the Daytona 500. They race the first 26 races which are called the regular season. Then 16 drivers who have qualified by winning one of the first 26 races or if there are not 16 winners the highest in points compete to be the champion in the last ten races of the season. All the 43 drivers still race those last ten weeks but only those 16 have a shot to win the championship. In 2010 NASCAR got their very own hall of fame this hall is located in Charlotte, North Carolina which is where most of the race teams are located and where most of the drivers live. The hall of fame inducts a class of 5 people important to the sport every year since it's opening in 2010. The hall of fame has a very nice website that tells more about the hall and gives you a place to look at all the people inducted into the hall and who they beat out of their group of nominees. The NASCAR hall of fame website is http://www.nascarhall.com/ if you are interested in learning more about the hall. So know you all hopefully know a little more about NASCAR then when you clicked on my blog post and if your a NASCAR rookie fan your closer to loosing your yellow tape. Have a great day and for all my race fans enjoy the race this weekend.

This is the logo you generally see for the NASCAR sprint cup series another common logo to be see is just the colorful NASCAR bar.