KJ's Corner

NASCAR - I love this sport I was thinking the other day about how long I have been following NASCAR. When I first got into this sport there were of course Chevy’s and Fords.   But there were also many other manufacturers such as Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Mercury, Dodge and Plymouth.   They were ALL American nameplates.   There was no Toyota in the sport. The sport at the time was known as the NASCAR Grand National Series.   Today the series is known as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. There was no Nationwide Series which began in 1982 when Budweiser sponsorship helped create the second tier of the sport, which 2 years later became the NASCAR Busch Series, and in 2007, the NASCAR Nationwide Series. There was no truck series.   The NASCAR Super Truck Series began in 1994, later sponsored and renamed the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and now the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. The creation of the “Winston Cup Series” in 1971 when R.J. Reynolds T