On March 8, 1936, a set of drivers gathered at Daytona Beach, Florida. The driver is to bring various types of cars from starting the car coupe, hardtop, convertible and sports car to compete in an event to determine who is the fastest car and who is entitled to be called as the best driver. In a race that was held at the venue, a car that weighs heavily stuck when driving on sand tracks while Ford made cars are light able to pass through the sand tracks and successfully dominated the race with the top six positions. A total of 27 cars following the race event, but only 10 are able to enter the finish after the race committee to stop the race remaining 10 miles of total distance of 250 miles scheduled. A driver named Milt Marion was declared the winner and a young Bill France sits in fifth position.
Entering early 1947 Bill France saw the potential to unify the vision of the driver and held an official event race. France announced the basic concept of "National Championship Stock Car Circuit", otherwise known as NCSCC. France tried to approach the American Automobile Association, or AAA, in hopes of obtaining financial support for these efforts. But AAA declined to give financial support to the racing event was designed France. Despite that France continues its efforts to announce a set of rules and awards for NCSCC. France stated that the 1947 season NCSCC winner will receive prize money of $ 1,000 following a trophy. Season will begin in January 1947 in Daytona Beach and the track ends in Jacksonville in December. There are 40 races of the season and recorded in almost all the races run over spectators in attendance exceeds capacity. The racers are competing paid as promised. At the end of the season, driver Fonty Flock declared the season champion after winning the seventh race of the 24 races he contested the season. Bill France to fulfill his promise to give the prize money of $ 1,000 and a trophy as high as four feet. France also gave a total prize of $ 3,000 for the other drivers who competed throughout the season.
At the end of the 1947 season, Bill France announced that there will be a series of meetings held at the Streamline Hotel in Florida which began on December 14, 1947 At one pm, France called 35 people who represent NCSCC to go up to the top floor of the hotel. The meeting was the first of four subsequent meetings where France outlining his vision to establish an official organization racing event. At first the name chosen for the organization is the National Stock Car Racing Association, but there was that name is already used one of the rival organization, the chosen name of the next "National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing" proposed by the mechanic Red Vogt.
Cars used by Red Byron are now on display in the NASCAR museum
NASCAR was founded by William France, Sr. on February 21, 1948 with the help of a few racers at that time. The design of this racing event points system was written on a bar napkin. Initial plans for NASCAR included three distinct divisions: Modified, Roadster, and Strictly Stock. Modification Series and Roadster Series originally seen as more attractive to fans. But it turns out that NASCAR fans wanted nothing participating cars are nothing to do with the American northeast and mid-west. Ultimately Series Roadster Series officially dropped while still operated a later modification now known as the Whelen Modified Tour. Strictly Stock Series was created as a special series sedan cars hold a high-class families after World War II. The 1948 season schedule featuring 52 races were held on dirt tracks. Inaugural race was held at Daytona Beach on February 15, 1948 Red Byron beat Marshall Teague in the Modified Series race. Byron then won the 1948 national championship Some elements of the race then changed dramatically when entering the 1949 season with the Strictly Stock Series race which held an exhibition in February near Miami with a total mileage up to 20 miles (32 km).
The first Strictly Stock Series race held at Charlotte Speedway although this circuit does not have the same track as the circuit during this time that Charlotte Motor Speedway. The race was held on June 19, 1949 and was won by driver Jim Roper after Glenn Dunaway was disqualified after the violation found in the rear suspension. At first, the car known as car "Strictly Stock" does not have a significant difference with the same car that came out of the car assembly plant. The series was later renamed the Grand National Series in the 1950 season For more than a decade, modifications for the two main elements of safety and performance were allowed, and in the mid-1960s that featured car on a race track with a car that has a different intended for highway except on the same car body designed.
Although Toyota's entry into NASCAR in the decade of the 2000s in fact in the early 1950s until the 1960s many drivers who wear one foreign car manufacturer MG who had appeared in the International competition in 1963 with 200 riders Smokey Cook.
The first NASCAR race held outside of the United States is in Canada on July 1, 1952, Buddy Shuman won a 200-lap race on a track that has a length of half a mile (800 m) which has the contour of the land in Stamford Park, Ontario, near Niagara Falls .