Do a Winner’s Lap with NASCAR Checks
Written by Alan Plastin on February 28, 2010 – 6:33 am -Are you a NASCAR fan? If so, and you want to let everyone know, then there is no better way than showing your allegiance than by using NASCAR personal checks. In the end, your finances might cause you anxiety, but there’s no reason that they have to be uninteresting.
NASCAR, officially known as the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, is one of the most popular sports in the United States. NASCAR has diehard fans that will literally travel hundreds of miles, and sometimes even thousands, to see a race. Professional football is the only other sport in the United States to receive more viewers than NASCAR. At popular races, nearly 100,000 fans can show up in attendance.
NASCAR drivers have become legends in their own right as well. Dale Earnhardt is now a revered sports hero, especially since he met his untimely death on the racetrack. Likewise, Richard Petty and Kyle Petty, Carl Edwards, and Jeff Gordon are virtual household names.
Stock car racing got its start during Prohibition when drivers would bootleg alcohol. The drivers would restructure their cars to make them faster so that they could better outrun the police when they were being chased.
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Nascar Nothing Like It
Written by hal johnson on January 28, 2010 – 4:32 pm -For more than half a century NASCAR has captured people’s interest with their swift and unpredictable races. Every year hundreds of people queue up to buy NASCAR TIX. Here is a look at some of the most prominent drivers in the sport who lead NASCAR tickets selling into frenzy over the years.
Richard petty
The legend is far out ahead of everyone when it comes to race victories, and is tied first for the most championship victories with Dale Earnhardt sr. Richard was the first driver to win 3 world titles and went on to amass 4 more in a career that lasted 35 years. He ended up with exactly 200 race victories from 1184 races, a record that is likely to stand for many more years to come.
Dale Earnhardt Sr.
Born in North Carolina in’51 to erstwhile racer Ralph Earnhardt, Dale showed a lot of promise early on. He made his entry on the race track in’75, but it wasn’t until’79 that he drove his first full season in NASCAR. He won his first Winston cup in only his second season, and went on to win 6 more. His prolific career sadly ended on the track when he died while racing in 2001. He was one of the biggest crowd pullers in his days, with his intimidating driving style driving people crazy trying to get their hands on NASCAR TIX.
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William K. Vanderbilt Jr’s Motor Parkway
Written by L.J. James on January 23, 2010 – 6:41 am -
The history of William K. Vanderbilt Jr’s Motor Parkway began on June 6th 1908 when its construction started. It was one of the first concrete roads in the Nation and it was the first to use Bridges and over passes so as to not have any intersections. The Motor parkway reached its almost full length of 45 miles from Queens to Lake Ronkonkoma in 1911 with 65 Bridges and many twists and turns.(There was a 2 and a Half mile western extension built in 1928)
Tags: auto racing, Long Island, Model A Ford, Motorcycle, Nascar, Prohibition, rum runners road, Vanderbilt Cup Races, Village and Restoration, William K. Vanderbilt
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A Vintage Auto Classic Reborn – The Austin Mini Vehicle
Written by Shaw U. Allard on January 4, 2010 – 12:14 pm -Think of the “Mod 1960’s” – Carnaby Street , Apple Records with the Beatles et al and most likely you will picture that cute little , or almost ugly “Austin Mini” motor-car vehicle. No doubt about it – the marvelous Mini set the stage for the worldwide acceptance of small front wheel drive , transversely laid out engines front wheel drive automotive car engine designs that we take for granted on our roads and highways today.
Yet the tiny and almost puny Austin Mini with its small in relation 4 banger engine won the famed Monte Carlo Rally three times running – in the years races of 1964, 1965 and lastly in 1967. Quite a feat for such a diminutive and scaled down automotive product of its time. On top of that the fourth victory was snatched from the mouth’s of the Austin clan only by a small infraction on the roadway.
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The Dominator Of Darlington: David Pearson
Written by Ross Everett on November 30, 2009 – 12:16 am -South Carolinas Darlington Raceway is an egg shaped terror that has become known as the track too tough to tame. If thats true, David Pearson came pretty close”during his illustrious career, he posted 10 victories and 12 poles at Darlington. These are both records for one of NASCARs most unforgiving tracks. Pearsons ability at Darlington bordered on the unreal, and he was able to follow the conventional wisdom about performing well there better than anyone. The old saying is that you need to race the track, not the other drivers, but thats a lot easier said than done. Pearson, however, made it look easy.
David Pearson was born on December 22,’34 in Whitney, SC”a textile town near Spartanburg. Like most of the locals, his parents worked in the local cotton mill and did their best to provide. David quit school after the 10th grade and went to work in the mill. It wasnt long, however, before his love of cars and racing made him leave the mill life behind. He bought a car and began racing at short tracks in the upstate. He ran his first race on 9/19/52 in Woodruff South Carolina. Within a few years, he won his first championship at the Greenville”Pickens Speedway in’59.
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