The first person to put together a formalized racing team, Raymond Parks, ran away from home when he was 14 to be an apprentice for a bootlegger. While he was bootlegging he made a fortune, and he invested it in the growing sport of stock car racing. He put a team together with his two cousins Lloyd Seay and Roy Hall who happened to be some of the top moonshine runners. Seay and Hall won the first big stock car championships. One of the top stock car drivers named Bill France started to recruit bootleggers to race in Virginia and the Carolinas. In December 1947 Bill France assembled the top stock car drivers, mechanics, and owners in Daytona Beach, Florida, to make rules. A meeting that ended with the formation of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, or NASCAR. During the 1950s Bill France sought to distance NASCAR from its bootlegging origins to make it a more family friendly sport.
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