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History of NASCAR The NASCAR name is permanently implanted in the sands of Daytona Beach Florida. About 50 year's ago the racing world was in its infancy. The Big War was over and thousands of men returning to the U.S. from the battlegrounds of the world were eager to begin life anew. They wanted a bigger, better, faster and more exciting world. With the return of the American soldiers at the end of the World War II, the request for new cars in the USA made a considerable jump with the return of the soldiers. The industry, which had produced weaponry for 5 years, applied at once their designs to the new cars. The result was the arrival on the market of fast, powerful and robust cars, which were enjoyed by the young people of the time. Those started to organize more or less legal races, and soon trends started to form. The American West was impassioned for the "sports" cars, the Midwest for those with uncovered wheels, whereas Southeast chose the stock cars. A lot of these were modified to carry out the illegal alcohol traffic and used in the "races". This passion for auto racing did not escape the promoters who quickly made an "official" sport out of it, creating many organizations, each with their own rules. Some