... more money. With all of these great upgrades being put on these cars you would need very special and very skilled drivers to be able to tame these wild beasts. Raymond Parks was a bootleg driver who eventually earned enough money to begin his own business. He began to distill his own moonshine and started a moonshine empire. Parks had many drivers working ... but a wealthy one. Lloyd Seay and Roy Hall were the two best drivers of their time and were both called driving geniuses. They were both cousins and the nephews of Raymond Parks and they would run there moonshine from Dawsonville d...

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... the name of the new stock car racing organization. The first NASCAR race was held on Daytona Beach six days before the official papers were finalized. Robert Red' Byron in Raymond Parks', 1939, Ford won that event. The beach race was the first of fifty-two events that were run that inaugural season. In 1948, a circuit for new cars, postwar models ... ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School