The Prohibition Era and the Creation of NASCAR

NASCAR is the world famous acronym for national companionship for Stock Car Auto Racing.NASCAR racing stands prominently in the front line of the American sports today. NASCAR is an authorizing body which arranges several types of racing all over the country the country. The most famous ones are journeyman Truck Series, Sprint Cup Series and Nationwide Series.1AN OVERVIEWThe population of NASCAR t hurrys back its roots in archives. The creation of NASCAR traces back to its roots deep in the history. It goes back to1794 almost a century before the foremost automobile came into being. It was the time of Whiskey Rebellion. This rebellion was actually a protest by bourne farmers against a federal tax levied on whiskey. Despite paying the tax they built secret belt ups, alert and started supplying their product secretly.2 There began the origin of NASCAR. In this paper this history is presented decade wise.Decade 1(1920-1933)On 16th January 1920 the Volstead bend was imposed all over United States. The manufacture, sale, export and import of alcohol were banned under this act.3In the obstacle period of the 1920s and early 30s, the thermionic valve marketing of whiskey, or moonshine running began to rise. Moonshine is a unmannered term in English for illegal transportation of liquor, and gradually gave birth to moonshine/ moonshine runners or rum runners. These moonshiners were commonly known as Bootleggers. These people who confidentially used to supply whiskey from their underground stills illegally to hundreds of markets all over the conspiracyeast. Their t high speeds driving at night because of the risk of patrol encounter was quite dangerous. It gradually turned into race competitions between the bootleggers which usually resulted in lose of living or imprisonment.When bootlegging developed, the bootleggers started to race among themselves to check the speed of their cars. They used to have these races on Sunday afternoons and so the same car wa s used to smuggle moonshine at Sunday night. Unavoidably, these races and moonshine cars became extremely touristy in general public. It even continued after the end of the prohibition era in 1933 on repeal of the Volstead Act.4Decade 2 (1938-1950)In 1938 William H.G. tone France held a race on Daytona Beach, Florida and NASCAR came into being. With the beginning of World struggle II brought transport car racing came to an end only when it again grew after the war but there were no appropriate rules and the proper organization. Soon Bill realized the importance of growth of stock car racing and consequently to start a formal official organization the National Association for Stock Car AutoRacing (NASCAR) in 1947.In the supervision of Bill France Senior and afterwards hisson, Bill FranceJunior NASCAR has turned into a rapidly growingsport in the1990s.The first race authorize by NASCAR held on thebeach course atDaytona in February 1948. The next year NASCARbegan the racing regi on of NASCAR called rigorouslyStock division,now identified as the Winston Cup Series. The first race by Strictly Stock contributed a $5,000purse and heldin southern Florida on a two-mile circular course followed by150-mile race at the three-quarter-mile CharlotteSpeedway. The first NASCAR race on newly made DarlingtonInternational Speedway was held in 1959 in South Carolina.5The NASCAR is flourishing since then till todayCurrent DecadeAs compared to the last decade NAS CAR racing has achieved the fore front of viewer sports in America, both live and in television telecasts. The Fiftieth Season of NASCAR was celebrated I 1998 which receive great public attendance and an immense coverage by the media which clearly shows the great development and popularity of NASCAR not only in United States but across the world s well.6ConclusionAfter going through the history of creation and growth of NASCAR, the link between the prohibition era in the United States and the creation of NASCAR has been vividly depicted. The role played by the bootleggers/ rumrunners/moonshiners is inevitable in the origin of NASCAR. Certain schools of thoughts in United States still assume them as heroes who fought against injustice and undue taxation no matter they were treated as criminals or smugglers. They believe that America was built by them.7Neal Thompson has written a carry Driving with the Devils about the moonshiners. Charles Danoff reviews the book and says that people may find Driving with the Devilover sympathizing the southern bootleggers regardless the fact that they were criminals anyhow. only if without this deep sympathy the story could never be told. The author treats Bill France as a dictator.Danoff is of the assurance that France family may tell this story in any manner they want, but its an undeniable fact that NASCAR did not came into being in 1940s as its website says. Its origin was conceived sometimes two decade earlier.8ReferencesRumrunners,Moonshiners,Bootlegg ersAccessed March 10, 2008The lolly Bootleggers The Hollow Men of NASCAR from http//www.chicagosportsreview.com/inthemeantime/contentview.asp?c=201755 Accessed March 10, 2008The History of NASCARAccessed March 10, 2008What is NASCAR.About.com Car Racinghttp//nascar.about.com/ Accessed March 10, 2008Ziewacz Lawrence E.The acres Music- NASCAR Connection. Country Music 2001, Charles K.Wolfe and James E. Akenson1 What is NASCAR? About.com 2The History of NASCAR 3 Rumrunners and Prohibition 4 The History of NASCAR 5 The History of NASCAR 6 The Country Music-NASCAR Connection 7 Rumrunners,Moonshiners,Bootleggers( http//www.history.com/index.jsp) 8 The Chicago Sports freshen up Bootleggers The Hollow Men of NASCAR