NASCAR

Chances are most auto racing fans are familiar with NASCAR and what it stands for. Well, in case you are not one of those people (yet), NASCAR is the acronym for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. (That is really a mouthful. It is a good thing they call it NASCAR.) NASCAR is regarded as the biggest authorizing body of stock cars in United States, and when we say biggest, we do mean the largest in the entire country. NASCAR is behind three of the greatest racing series namely the Craftsman Truck Services, the Nationwide Series, and the Sprint Cup. Besides these series, NASCAR also plays a major role in NASCAR Local Racing, the Whelen Modified Tour, and the Whelen All-American Series. Overall, NASCAR endorses more than one thousand five hundred races at over one hundred tracks in about forty states, Canada, and Mexico. There were times when NASCAR sponsored exhibition races in other countries like Japan (from 1996 to 1998) and Australia (in 1988).

NASCAR is headquartered at Daytona Beach, Florida but it has offices in Charlotte, Concord, Conover, and Mooresville, all of which are North Carolina cities. It also has regional offices in other states. It has one in New York, one in California, and another one in Arkansas. NASCAR’s international offices can found in Toronto and Mexico City.

NASCAR is second in line when it comes to the most popular professional sport, the first one being the National Football League. This is based on the TV ratings in United States. Around the globe, races sanctioned by NASCAR are shown in more or less one hundred fifty countries. If you are still having doubts on how phenomenal the NASCAR is, it has seventy-five million fans who buy licensed products averaging $3billion annually.