1. Car Racing

2. Competition for Horseless Carriages
First known car race
From Paris to Rouen, France
1894

3. Types of Car Racing One-seater cars Stock cars Sports cars NASCAR
NASCAR is the largest governing body of stock car racing

4. Historical Facts about NASCAR Races
First NASCAR-sanctioned race
Daytona Beach
Feb 15, 1948
Grand National
Charlotte Fairgrounds (NC)
June 19, 1949
Live telecast
1979 Daytona 500
500-mile race
First to be telecast in entirety

5. First Daytona 500 Noon on February 22, 1959 59 entrants 2½ mile track
Car speed approximately 140 mph
And the winner is…

6. First Daytona 500 Photo finish
Lee Petty
Johnny Beauchamp
Petty declared winner more than 2 days after race ended

7. Visit www.emcp.net/nascar
for additional information
about racing