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NASCAR

company

Stock-car racing's sanctioning body, whose first Strictly Stock race ran at Charlotte Speedway in June 1949.

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  1. 1949 · 1949-06-19

    NASCAR staged its first-ever Strictly Stock race before some 13,000 spectators at the three-quarter-mile dirt Charlotte Speedway, where apparent winner Glenn Dunnaway was disqualified for illegal 'moonshiner springs' and Kansas driver Jim Roper was declared the victor.

    Source · checked 2026-08-15