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Description
As a teen growing up in Washington, D.C., Bill France Sr., known as the father of NASCAR, loved racing, often skipping school to watch races at a high-banked track in Laurel, Md. Eventually, he owned a service station in Washington and then packed up his family and moved to a warmer climate in Florida. His timing couldn’t of been better. In 1936, the city of Daytona Beach helped promote a stock-car race on its sandy shores and lost money doing it. . .