National Stock Car Racing Association
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Sport | Atlanta, Georgia |
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President | Weyman Milam |
Other key staff | Bruton Smith |
Closure date | 1951 |
The National Stock Car Racing Association (NSRA/NSCRA) was a sanctioning body for stock car racing that operated in the Southeastern United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Competing against several other sanctioning bodies, including NASCAR, NSCRA was considered to be the most significant challenge to NASCAR's dominance of the sport; however it proved incapable of competing with the larger sanction, and closed down midway through the 1951 racing season.
History
Founded in 1946 in
Smith announced that the sanction would operate a "Strictly Stock" championship starting in 1949;
The NSCRA Strictly Stock Championship ran for two years, with
In late 1950, seeing as how the sport was still on a shaky basis and could not support two major sanctioning bodies, Smith and France agreed in principle to merge their respective organizations into a single, unified promotional body for the sport.[9] However, Smith was drafted in January 1951 to fight in the Korean War as a paratrooper;[10] in his absence, NSCRA's management, dominated by drivers, proved incapable of keeping the organization afloat amongst internal disputes,[11] and Milam was forced to close down the sanctioning body during the summer of 1951.[12] Samples was leading the NSCRA's point standings at the time of the closure.[13] The circuit's premier drivers, such as Cotton Owens, and tracks, such as Lakewood Speedway, joined NASCAR following NSCRA's closure.[12]
References
- Notes
- ^ "National Stock Car Racing Association" had actually been the preferred name selected for the new sanctioning body created by France in 1947 at the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida; Red Vogt pointed out that the name was already in use, suggesting "National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing" as an alternative, which was accepted.[6]
- Citations
- ^ Pierce 2010, p. 93
- ^ Howell 1997, p. 22
- ^ Thompson 2006, p.190
- ^ a b Thompson 2006, p. 283
- ^ Edelstein 2011, p. 11
- ^ Moriarty 1998, p.12
- ^ Hunter and Pearce 1998, p. 32
- ^ Thompson 2006, p. 309
- ^ Thompson 2006, p. 335
- ^ Zeller, Bob (July 2003). "Bruton and the Two Bills: A 50-Year Rivalry". Car and Driver. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
- ^ Ingram, Jonathan (May 13, 2010). "Origins, Part 4 – France Tackles Bruton". SPEED Channel. Fox Sports. Archived from the original on July 19, 2010. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
- ^ a b Pierce 2010, p. 136
- ^ "Ed Samples Seeks First Victory at Lakewood Sunday". Rome News-Tribune. Rome, Georgia. June 10, 1951. p. 14.
- Bibliography
- Edelstein, Robert (2011). NASCAR Legends: Memorable Men, Moments, and Machines in Racing History. New York: Overlook Press. ISBN 978-1590207314.
- Howell, Mark D. (1997). From Moonshine to Madison Avenue: a Cultural History of the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. Bowling Green, KY: Bowling Green State University Popular Press. ISBN 978-0879727406.
- Hunter, Don; Al Pearce (1998). The Illustrated History of Stock Car Racing: From the Sands of Daytona to Madison Avenue. St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks International. ISBN 978-0760304167.
- Moriarty, Frank (1998). The Encyclopedia of Stock Car Racing. New York: Metro Books. ISBN 978-1567994599.
- Pierce, Daniel S. (2010). Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0807833841.
- Thompson, Neal (2006). Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR. New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-1400082261.