TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, August 6, 2012
Greetings Infomaniacs,Thank you for joining me today. I hope everyone had a great weekend! I have some fun facts for you today about NASCAR. I've never been a huge fan of NASCAR, but I was often exposed to it growing up because my dad is a huge racing fan.
I do enjoy attending local races at dirt tracks in southern areas of Illinois. My dad is a mechanic and has a lot of friends into cars who race at these tracks.
He would often build motors for these racers, and so it was much more enjoyable to watch them because I knew the people racing in them. I could root for the cars that were running on my dad's motors! Pretty exciting stuff!
Enjoy!
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Email MelissaTODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTEQUOTE: "Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words."
HINT: (1870-1937), Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology.
RANDOM TIDBITSNASCAR owes everything to William France Sr., who organized the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing in Daytona, Florida, in 1948. Son Bill Jr. took the reins of the organization in 1972 before handing it over to his own son, Brian, in 2003.
Nearly every level of NASCAR competition has corporate sponsorship. The three most popular are the NEXTEL cup (became Sprint Cup in 2008), the Busch series, and the Craftsman Truck Series. The NEXTEL Cup was originally known as the Grand National Series, but became the Winston Cup after R.J. Reynolds took over sponsorship of the series in 1972.
In 1977, Cale Yarborough successfully defended his Winston Cup championship and did something en route that no driver before him had ever accomplished - he finished every race that season.
After NASCAR required shatterproof plastic windshields, drivers complained that they became dirty and scratched too easily during races. As a solution, clear plastic sheets are placed on the windshield that crew members can peel off one-at-a-time if they become soiled.
The NASCAR races you don't see on television or in person tend to be as dangerous as the ones you do. Three of the last four fatalities to occur in the Winston Cup/NEXTEL Cup series occurred during practice runs.
Over the last two decades (ending in 2007), Chevrolet has dominated the Daytona 500. Drivers behind the wheels of Chevys have won 15 of 20 races. During that span, the winner's purse has grown from $200,000 to a staggering $1.5 million.
VIDEO CLIPLadies of Auto Racing - Who Said Women Can't Drive The notion that women can't drive race cars should have been disproved a century ago when Camille du Gast drove in the Paris to Berlin race in 1901 and there have been women in racing ever since.
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTEQUOTE: "Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words."
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