you may be surprised to find the remains of a speedway owned by the king of NASCAR himself: Daytona Beach's Bill France, Sr. The Historic Occoneechee Speedway is the last remaining dirt speedway ...

NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. saw the potential of the track. He transformed it into a one-mile dirt oval, making it one of NASCAR’s first official tracks. However, Occoneechee Speedway was ...

Bill France, Jr., built stock-car racing from a small-time backwater sport into a billion-dollar enterprise. He spent his entire life around car racing, working in speedway concession stands as a ...

Occasionally, armchair historians run with the legend of Big Bill France — the NASCAR founder and Speedway builder — “inventing” a new track shape because it helps the sightline for fans ...

The death of motor sports czar Bill France ... International Speedway. In the later years, they would turn over the business to their children and grandchildren. Mrs. France died in January.

The France family primarily owns NASCAR. The sanctioning body was founded by Bill France Sr ... races are run on tracks owned by International Speedway Corporation and Speedway Motorsports ...

With plans to build a track longer and faster than Daytona International Speedway — which opened in 1959 — NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. looked to South Carolina, where he wanted to ...