NASCAR grew to fame and fortune by racing on dirt and paved short tracks and moved on to bigger tracks, such as Darlington (S.C.) Raceway, and eventually Florida’s Daytona Int’l Speedway and Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.
After a season in which barriers were broken and NASCAR managed to kick-start the national sports scene while a pandemic raged, there are still more changes at hand as the sanctioning body prepares to open the new season this month at Daytona Int’l Speedway.
Winning the NASCAR Weekly Series championship is a pretty big deal for drivers who don’t have buses, don’t fly to every race and don’t have the resources that, say, a NASCAR Cup Series driver does.
