For The NASCAR “Purists” Lined Up Against Road Course Racing

The people deeply involved in NASCAR are the first to proudly point to the sport’s roots in bootlegging liquor runners driving their souped up cars over back country roads and at times racing away from the government revenuers… Check out these videos on NASCAR’s roots (yeah, I know the second one is a little long):

NASCAR’s Roots

History of NASCAR

CBS Sunday Morning show featuring Junior Johnson and Moonshiners

Moonshiners vs. Revenuers Reunion with Junior Johnson

Now think about this: If the bootleggers truly represent the beginning of stock car racing, and they only turned left, they’d have been in the ditch in no time… There’s a lesson in this for NASCAR…