From Moonshining to the Winner’s Circle
Wall Street Journal
August 18, 2010
Nascar was founded in Daytona Beach, Fla., in 1949, but it came of age in the hills and hollows around this North Carolina city. By the mid-1980s, North Carolina was the unofficial capital of the sport, with many of the team race shops based here. North Carolina also produced some of the best drivers, including Junior Johnson, Ned Jarrett and, of course, Dale Earnhardt Sr.
And so it only made sense that Nascar would choose Charlotte’s hip Uptown neighborhood as the home of the first-ever Nascar Hall of Fame, which opened earlier this year.Much more than a collection of old race cars, historic driving suits and banged-up helmets, the museum takes visitors on a journey from the early days of beach races and moonshiners through the sport’s tremendous growth in the ’70s and ’80s and into the high-tech era of today.
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