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Meet the American who created NASCAR: Bill France Sr., Daytona speed demon and racetrack pioneer
Bill France Sr. was born with a mind for business, a gift for people — and a need for speed. He turned those passions into a nationwide obsession with stock car racing. France founded the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing — NASCAR — 75 years ago this week, on Feb. 21, 1948, in Daytona Beach, Florida. NASCAR has grown into the world’s premier stock car racing circuit. “Big Bill,” as he was known, is the unquestioned godfather of the autosport. MEET THE AMERICAN WHO FOUGHT AND BLED AT THE ALAMO BUT LIVED TO TELL ITS HEROIC TALE: SLAVE JOE “His story is a great American success story,” NASCAR…
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‘Speed Addict’ New Lenox Native On Track For Motorcycle Racing Success
NEW LENOX, IL — A photograph of a crying baby sitting in a diaper may possibly feel like a odd source from which to attract passion. But for Kevin Horney, which is precisely when his need to have for velocity apparently commenced. Horney, a lifelong New Lenox resident and 2020 Lincoln-Way Central graduate, factors to that photograph of himself as a single of the reasons why he is the place he is right now. Horney seems at the decades-aged image that captured him crying as he details to his father and brother as they speed by him on dirt bikes as the second when he realized he was born to…
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NHRA: Brittany Force re-sets national Top Fuel speed record (see video); is 2nd championship next?
Brittnay Power manufactured historical past all over again on Friday. Past month, the daughter of drag racing legend John Pressure set the national history for the swiftest Prime Gasoline run in NHRA history by operating a whopping 338.43 mph in the opening round of the Midwest Nationals at Planet Large Technological know-how Raceway. Friday, during the 1st of two times of qualifying for the year-ending Auto Club Finals at Automobile Club Raceway in Pomona, California, Brittany the moment once again re-set the nationwide velocity record, bumping up her earlier-ideal pace to 338.94 mph, at an elapsed time of 3.641 seconds. “Setting an additional new speed history is rather amazing,” Drive…
