Mark Feldmeier

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Mark Feldmeier

• NASCAR
• Senior gradation project

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History of NASCAR

• In the summer of 1938, William H.G. "Bill" France
  organized a race on the firm sands of Daytona
  Beach, Florida. NASCAR had begun.
  
• He soon realized for stock car racing to grow, an
  official organization had to exist.
  
• In December of 1947, Bill France SR., of Daytona
  Beach, Fla.., organized a meeting at the
  Streamline Hotel in town to discuss the matters
  facing stock car racing.

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History of NASCAR

• Over three days, rules and specifications were
  drawn and agreed upon.
  
• The name of the organization would be
• NASCAR- the National Association of Stock Car
  Auto Racing.
  
• Jim Roper, driving a '49 Lincoln, went down as
  the first winner of the first ever NASCAR race.
  
• Red Byron became NASCAR's first ever national
  champion.

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History of NASCAR

• NASCAR history can be traced back to its roots in
  1794, during the Whiskey Rebellion.
  
• During the Prohibition era 1920s, early 1930s,
  the business of secretly transporting whiskey.
  The drivers soon began to race one another to see
  who had the fastest car. Racing moonshine cars
  became very popular in the backroads of the
  South.

On December 12, 1947 Bill France gathered
promoters from the southeast, northeast, and
Midwest in Daytona. The first true NASCAR race wa
s held at the Charlotte, North Carolina
Fairgrounds on June 19,1949.
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Kevin Harvick

• Birthdate Dec 08, 1975
• Kevin Harvick's racing career began in his
  toddler years. When he graduated from
  kindergarten, his parents gave him a go-kart to
  race around the local tracks in sunny
  Bakersfield, Calif.
• For 10 years that Kevin raced go-karts, he won
  seven national and two grand national go-kart
  titles before moving on to the Featherlite
  Southwest Series in 1992, where he raced
  part-time while completing high school.
• After finishing high school Kevin moved on to a
  full-time effort in the Featherlite Series. He
  took rookie of the year honors in 1995.
  
• Kevin went to school at Bakersfield Junior
  College.

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Jeff Gordon

• Birthdate Aug 04, 1971
• Gordon won 22 USAC races and garnered 55 top-five
  and 66 top-10 finishes.
  
• Gordon won his first sprint car win came in 1986
  at the KC Speedway in Chillicothe, Ohio.
  
• In 1990, at age 19, Gordon became the youngest
  USAC National Midge Champion in history. A year
  later, he won the USAC dirt title to become the
  youngest Silver Crown winner ever.
• In 1991, after taking Buck Bakers driving school
  at North Carolina Speedway, Jeff told his
  stepfather to sell everything. Were going stock
  car racing.
• Gordon won three Busch Series races in 1992
  before jumping to Cup racing,
  
• He won rookie of the year honors in 1993 and the
  first of his four titles in 1995.
  
• Gordon also took top honors in 97, 98 and 2001.

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Dale Earnhardt

• He won seven nascar championships.
• 80, 86, 87, 90, 91 ,93, and 94
• In 1998 Dale Earnhardt won the Daytona 500.
• He die during a race at Daytona on Feb. 18,
  2001.
  
• The death of dale Earnhardt on the last lap of
  the 2001 Daytona 500 moved America like no
  athlete death ever had.
  

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Talladega Super Speedway

• Racing at Talladega is lot like driving down the
  interstate with a lot of traffic, and then you
  hit construction. All of the lanes swerve and
  youre not really sure where to go and you just
  hope all of the cars around you dont mess up.
  There is not much time to react, so you just hope
  the other drivers use their heads and dont do
  anything crazy.
• Mark Martin

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Bristol Motor Speedway

• Nextel Cup Qualifying Record
• Was set by Ryan Newman with a lap time of
  128.709 in March 2003
  
• Nextel Cup Race Record
• Was set by Charlie Glotzbach with a lap time of
  101.074 in July 1971

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NASCAR Crashes
Research found 253 on-track incidents during the
2005 season a 24 jump from 2004 (204) and up 8
from the previous high (235) in 2003.
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Team Sponsorships

• Race teams can get anywhere from 10 million to
  20 million from sponsors for the primary spots
  on their cars.
  
• Hood
• Quarter
• Some secondary sponsors may pay anywhere 500,000
  to 1 million for other spots on the car.
  
• Front Fenders
• B Post
• C Post