Big” Bill France, Sr. (second from left) stands with drivers (L to R) Smokey Purser, Roy Hall and Sammy Packard before a stock car race on the Daytona beach-road course in 1940. Hall won the race with Big Bill finishing fourth, Purser fifth and Packard 19th. Big Bill would eventually give up driving and focus on promoting road course events at Daytona Beach as well as the creation of today’s NASCAR’s Cup Series. Photo by ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images
NASCAR is making a historic return to road course racing in Daytona. NASCAR founder, Bill France Sr raced the sandy Daytona road course.
As NASCAR’s three national series get ready to make their historic first attempts at the DAYTONA Road Course inside the Daytona International Speedway on Aug. 14-16, let’s take a look back at how road course racing began in Daytona Beach, “The Birthplace of Speed.”
LOUDON, NEW HAMPSHIRE – AUGUST 02: Bubba Wallace, driver of the #43 Cash App Chevrolet, drives during the NASCAR Cup Series Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on August 02, 2020, in Loudon, New Hampshire. Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images
Wallace, mid-week racing, Daytona road course are at the top of this week’s Hot Topics Sound Off with Fan4Racing writer Andy Laskey. Share your thoughts by commenting below.
NASCAR Announces 2020 Schedule through Cup Series Regular Season Finale Weekend
NASCAR announced on Wednesday its schedule of events through August for all three national series and the ARCA Menards Series, which includes two additional NASCAR Cup Series doubleheaders, and two separate stops – on two different courses – at Daytona International Speedway.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Less than a month after Denny Hamlin celebrated his Daytona 500 crown in the sport’s most famous victory lane, Daytona International Speedway has announced major adjustments to the traditional 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season-opening race week – changing up the course of the popular Busch Clash race and condensing the schedule of Daytona Speedweeks.
DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA – FEBRUARY 17: Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 FedEx Express Toyota, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series 62nd Annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 17, 2020, in Daytona Beach, Florida. Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images
Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin, was on the Jim Rome Show today talking about Ryan Newman.